Community school in Highbury, London, England
| Highbury Fields School | |
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| Address | |
| Highbury Hill Highbury, London, N5 1AR England | |
| Coordinates | 51°33′10″N 0°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 |
| Headteacher | Tim Fox |
| Gender | Girls |
| Age | 11 to 18 |
| Enrolment | 768 as of December 2022 |
| 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.
The School has specialisms in Science and Mathematics, and is also a Leading Edge Partnership school.
Highbury Fields School offers GCSEs as programmes of study for pupils. 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).
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 Gray's Inn Road.
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.
Notable former pupils
- Little Simz, actress, rapper and singer
- Kemi Adeosun former Minister of Finance Nigeria
Highbury Hill High School
- Edith Clara Batho, Principal of Royal Holloway College, University of London from 1945 to 1962
- Michelle Collins, EastEnders well-known actress, who played Cindy Beale, and Stella Price in Coronation Street
- Eileen Hickman-Smith, artist
- Mary Kerridge, actress
- Andrea Levy, novelist
- Sandy Ratcliff, EastEnders actress who played Sue Osman, expelled at the age of 12
References
- "Highbury Fields | Home". Highburyfields.islington.sch.uk. 7 March 2013. Retrieved 30 August 2013.
- "Highbury Fields | About us". Highburyfields.islington.sch.uk. Retrieved 30 August 2013.
- "Highbury Fields | Curriculum". Highburyfields.islington.sch.uk. Archived from the original on 21 August 2013. Retrieved 30 August 2013.
- "Home / IC6". Ic6.co.uk. Retrieved 30 August 2013.
- Home and Colonial School Society, UCL, retrieved 1 January 2014
- "Highbury Fields School - GOV.UK". Get-information-schools.service.gov.uk. Retrieved 27 December 2022.
- "Sandy Ratcliff, gifted actress who starred in Ken Loach's 'Family Life', was spotted by Snowdon and took a regular role in 'EastEnders' – obituary". Daily Telegraph. 10 April 2019. Retrieved 27 April 2020.
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