Highbury Fields School

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Highbury Fields School
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Address
Highbury Fields School
Highbury Hill

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N5 1AR

England
Coordinates 51°33′10″N0°06′04″W / 51.55273°N 0.10111°W / 51.55273; -0.10111 Coordinates: 51°33′10″N0°06′04″W / 51.55273°N 0.10111°W / 51.55273; -0.10111
Information
Type Community school
Local authority Islington
Department for Education URN 100455 Tables
Ofsted Reports
HeadteacherTim Fox
GenderGirls
Age11to 18
Enrolment768 as of December 2022
Website www.highburyfields.islington.sch.uk

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]

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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]

History

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]

Grammar school

It was the former Highbury Hill School, a girls' grammar school. During the war, it evacuated to Huntingdon Grammar school, now Hinchingbrooke School.

Comprehensive

It became a comprehensive in 1981. Today it is a community school administered by Islington London Borough Council. [6]

Notable former pupils

Highbury Hill High School

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References

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  2. "Highbury Fields | About us". Highburyfields.islington.sch.uk. Retrieved 30 August 2013.
  3. "Highbury Fields | Curriculum". Highburyfields.islington.sch.uk. Archived from the original on 21 August 2013. Retrieved 30 August 2013.
  4. "Home / IC6". Ic6.co.uk. Retrieved 30 August 2013.
  5. Home and Colonial School Society, UCL, retrieved 1 January 2014
  6. "Highbury Fields School - GOV.UK". Get-information-schools.service.gov.uk. Retrieved 27 December 2022.
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