Secondary
Whitmore High School
Porlock Avenue, Harrow, HA2 0AD
Key facts
- Phase
- Secondary
- Type
- Community school
- Ages
- 11 to 18
- Intake
- Mixed
- Pupils
- 1724 of 1750 places
- Pupils per teacher
- 15.0
- Local authority
- Harrow
- Sixth form
- Yes
- SEN provision
- ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder, PD - Physical Disability
Staffing23/24
- Teachers (FTE)
- 115.5
- All staff (FTE)
- 152.6
- Pupils per adult
- 11.4
- Pupils
- 1,733
Staff are counted as full-time equivalents in the November school workforce census, so the pupil figure here is that census’s own and will differ a little from the roll above, which is counted in January.
Ofsted
Last inspected March 2025
- Behaviour and attitudesOutstanding
- Leadership and governanceOutstanding
- Personal developmentOutstanding
- Quality of educationOutstanding
- Sixth formOutstanding
Inspected under the previous framework, which used its own four-point scale. Ofsted now publishes a report card grading several areas separately, so these grades are not directly comparable with a recent inspection’s.
SafeguardingMet
Read the full Ofsted report (opens in a new tab)GCSE results
57%
1 points below the Harrow average (58% across 15 schools)
55.0
1.3 above the Harrow average (53.7 across 15 schools)
8th of 15 by our score, among the secondary schools in Harrow we can score - 19 in total, the rest without enough published data. Local and same-phase on purpose: a national table mostly measures who attends.
All published measures2024/2025
| Measure | Result |
|---|---|
| Attainment 8 | 55 |
| EBacc average point score | 5.11 |
| Entered the EBacc | 91% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 73% |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 57% |
| A level average points per entry | 36.67 |
| A level students | 182 |
From the Department for Education. Measures are published per year and suppressed where a cohort is too small, so some schools show fewer. There are no results for 2019/20 or 2020/21, when exams and assessments were cancelled.
Results over time4 years
Each measure on its own scale, over every year we hold.
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 69% |
| 22/23 | 61% |
| 23/24 | 57% |
| 24/25 | 57% |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 43.3 |
| 22/23 | 39.0 |
| 23/24 | 36.4 |
| 24/25 | 36.7 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | +1.15 |
| 22/23 | +1.06 |
| 23/24 | +0.75 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 59.9 |
| 22/23 | 57.7 |
| 23/24 | 54.7 |
| 24/25 | 55.0 |
Porlock Avenue, Harrow, HA2 0AD
Admissions
How to apply (opens in a new tab)
You apply through your council, not the school - even for academies and free schools. Applications close on 31 October, the year before starting.
Harrow admissions (opens in a new tab)
The council publishes the oversubscription criteria and last year’s offer distances, which is the closest thing to knowing your chances.
If you are refused a place (opens in a new tab)
You can appeal, and you can join a waiting list at the same time. Accept whatever offer you get first - declining it can leave you with no place at all.
This school’s own admissions (opens in a new tab)
Schools that set their own criteria - faith schools, grammars, academies - publish them on their own site.
Contact
- Headteacher
- James Rebbitt
- Address
- Porlock Avenue, Harrow, HA2 0AD
- Telephone
- 02088647688