Highbury Fields School | |
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Address | |
Highbury Hill , , N5 1AR England | |
Coordinates | 51°33′10″N0°06′04″W / 51.55273°N 0.10111°W Coordinates: 51°33′10″N0°06′04″W / 51.55273°N 0.10111°W |
Information | |
Type | Community school |
Local authority | Islington |
Department for Education URN | 100455 Tables |
Ofsted | Reports |
Headteacher | Tim Fox |
Gender | Girls |
Age | 11to 18 |
Enrolment | 768 as of December 2022 [update] |
Website | www |
Highbury Fields School (formerly Highbury Hill High School) is a secondary school for girls and coeducational sixth form, located next to Highbury Fields in the Highbury area of the London Borough of Islington, England. [1]
The School has specialisms in Science and Mathematics, and is also a Leading Edge Partnership school. [2]
Highbury Fields School offers GCSEs as programmes of study for pupils. [3] Students in the sixth form have the option to study from a range of A Levels which are provided as part of the Islington Sixth Form Consortium (iC6). [4]
The school is credited with being a successor institution to the educational ideas introduced to England by Charles and Elizabeth Mayo at the school on Grey's Inn Road. [5]
It was the former Highbury Hill School, a girls' grammar school. During the war, it evacuated to Huntingdon Grammar school, now Hinchingbrooke School.
It became a comprehensive in 1981. Today it is a community school administered by Islington London Borough Council. [6]
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