Type Community school DfE number 206/4307 Ofsted Reports | Headteacher Gladys Berry DfE URN 100455 Tables Phone +44 20 7288 1888 | |
Location Highbury Hill
Highbury
London
N5 1AR
England Address Highbury Hill, Islington, London N5 1AR, UK Similar Swim Islington, Holloway School, Central Foundation Boys' Sch, Highbury Fields | ||
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.
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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 Grey'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.