Highbury Fields School

Community school in Highbury, London, England

51°33′10″N 0°06′04″W / 51.55273°N 0.10111°W / 51.55273; -0.10111InformationTypeCommunity schoolLocal authorityIslingtonDepartment for Education URN100455 TablesOfstedReportsHeadteacherTim FoxGenderGirlsAge11 to 18Enrolment768 as of December 2022^[update]Websitewww.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]

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

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^[7]

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.