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Secondary school in Stanmore, Harrow

Avanti House School

Wemborough Road, Stanmore, Middlesex, HA7 2EQ

Sixth form Hindu
School website 02082496830

Ofsted

Inspected under the current framework, which gives no overall grade, on 10 June 2025.

Inspections since September 2024 do not give an overall grade, so there is no one-word judgement to report. The full report sets out what inspectors found.

Read the Ofsted report

GCSE results 2024/25

Attainment 8 score

64 England 47

The average grade across eight GCSEs, doubling English and maths. 50 is roughly a grade 5 average.

Grade 5+ in English & maths

74% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

87% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

6 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

77% England 40.8%

On Attainment 8 this school is in the top 5% of state-funded secondaries in England.

Compared with the fifth of schools whose intake is least disadvantaged, which is where this one sits, it is in the top quarter.

Progress 8 2023/24

1.10confidence interval 0.88 to 1.31

Taking that range into account, pupils made more progress than similar pupils nationally. DfE bands this as well above average.

Progress 8 measures how far pupils moved between the end of primary and their GCSEs, which makes it far fairer than raw attainment. It is shown for 2023/24 because it could not be calculated for 2024/25: that year group would have sat their key stage 2 tests in summer 2020, when the tests were cancelled, so there is no starting point to measure from. Every school in England is affected, not just this one.

A levels 2024/25

Average grade per entry
B-
Average points per entry
37.5

England average 32.3

A level students
137

Pupils

Pupils on roll
1206
Places
1260
How full
Nearly full — 1206 of 1260 places taken
Girls / boys
607 / 599
Overall absence
4%

secondary schools average 8.6%

Persistently absent
6%

secondary schools average 23.9% — pupils missing 10% or more of sessions

Free school meals, last 6 years
7%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
46%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
3%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
6%

England 15%

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
98%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
97%

England 85.4%

Started an apprenticeship
1%

England 3.5%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
64%
No sustained destination
1%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
182

After sixth form

Went to university
75%

England 50%

In education, work or training
90%

England 84.3%

Started an apprenticeship
5%

England 6.5%

Students in the cohort
166

Going on to university 2021/22 leavers

Went to a top third university

32% England 20.9%

The third of higher education providers whose entrants hold the highest average entry qualifications. It is the closest thing in the public data to "did they get into a competitive university", and it separates schools far more sharply than the headline progression rate does.

Went on to a degree
90%

England 65.3%

Students in the cohort
122

These follow an earlier group of leavers than the figures above, and count anyone reaching higher education within two years rather than the term after leaving, so they are not directly comparable with them.

A destination counts only if it lasted at least six months, which is why these figures lag the exam results by a year, and why the university figures track leavers from 2021/22. Small cohorts move these percentages a long way — check the cohort size before reading much into a gap.

The neighbourhood around the school

Census 2021 figures for Harrow 008C, the statistical neighbourhood the school sits in — roughly 1,500 residents. It describes the area, not the pupils, who may travel in from further away.

Adults with a degree
55%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
11%

England 18.3%

Households owning their home
80%

England 62.7%

Households in social housing
3%

England 17%

Households with no car
8%

England 21.9%

Adults economically inactive
35%

England 39.9%

School details

Type
Free schools
Phase
Secondary
Ages
Ages 11–18
Gender
Mixed
Admissions
Non-selective
Religious character
Hindu
Sixth form
Yes
Nursery
No
Boarding
Day school
Trust
AVANTI SCHOOLS TRUST
Headteacher
Principal: Simon Arnell
Local authority
Harrow
Ward
Belmont
Constituency
Harrow East
URN
138227

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Nearest secondary schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Distance
North London Collegiate SchoolOther independent school No grade 0.6 mi
Park High SchoolAcademy converter No grade 48.9 0.6 mi
Canons High SchoolAcademy converter Good 2023 39.1 0.9 mi
London AcademyAcademy sponsor led Good 2023 51.7 1.2 mi
Bentley Wood High SchoolAcademy converter Outstanding 2023 58.5 1.4 mi
The Sacred Heart Language CollegeAcademy converter No grade 57.9 1.5 mi
Salvatorian Roman Catholic CollegeAcademy converter Good 2022 54.1 1.6 mi
St Gregory's Catholic Science CollegeAcademy converter No grade 60.6 1.7 mi

Schools with a similar intake

State-funded secondary schools nationally whose share of disadvantaged pupils is closest to this school's. This is the fairest like-for-like comparison the published data supports.

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8
Bullers Wood SchoolAcademy converter Good 2024 56.3
Churchill Academy & Sixth FormAcademy converter No grade 50.3
Hasmonean High School for BoysAcademy converter Good 2023 56.5
Westwood CollegeAcademy converter Requires improvement 2024 44.2
St Peter's Catholic High SchoolVoluntary aided school Good 2024 51.1
The King's (The Cathedral) SchoolAcademy converter Outstanding 2024 63.2
Katharine Lady Berkeley's SchoolAcademy converter Good 2023 53.1
Caroline Chisholm SchoolAcademy converter No grade 50.4

Where these figures come from

  • School details, address and pupil numbers — Get Information About Schools, the DfE register, as at 14 August 2026.
  • Exam results — DfE performance tables, 2024/25, and 2023/24 for Progress 8.
  • Free school meals, EAL and SEN — school census, 2024/25.
  • Ofsted — Ofsted management information, latest inspections as at 30 June 2026.
  • Neighbourhood figures — ONS Census 2021, lower layer super output area.

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