Highbury Fields School

Highbury Fields School
Type Community school
Headteacher Gladys Berry
Location 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
Local authority Islington
DfE number 206/4307
DfE URN 100455 Tables
Ofsted Reports
Gender Girls
Ages 11–18
Website www.highburyfields.islington.sch.uk

Highbury Fields School (formerly Highbury Hill High School) is a community 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]

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.

Notable former pupils

Highbury Hill High School

References

  1. "Highbury Fields | Home". Highburyfields.islington.sch.uk. 2013-03-07. Retrieved 2013-08-30.
  2. "Highbury Fields | About us". Highburyfields.islington.sch.uk. Retrieved 2013-08-30.
  3. "Highbury Fields | Curriculum". Highburyfields.islington.sch.uk. Retrieved 2013-08-30.
  4. "Home / IC6". Ic6.co.uk. Retrieved 2013-08-30.
  5. Home and Colonial School Society, UCL, retrieved 1 January 2014

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