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Secondary school in London, Haringey

Fortismere School

Southwing, Tetherdown, London, N10 1NE

Ofsted Good · 2022 Sixth form Full
School website 02083654400

Ofsted

Goodas at 26 April 2022

Graded Good at its last graded inspection, on 26 April 2022.

Ofsted stopped awarding single-word overall grades in September 2024. This grade is 4 years old and will not be updated — the school keeps it until its next inspection, which will not produce a replacement grade.

Read the Ofsted report

GCSE results 2024/25

Attainment 8 score

58.1 England 47

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

Grade 5+ in English & maths

66% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

85% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

5.3 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

49% England 40.8%

On Attainment 8 this school is in the top 10% 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 better-performing half.

Progress 8 2023/24

0.49confidence interval 0.31 to 0.67

Taking that range into account, pupils made more progress than similar pupils nationally. DfE bands this as 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
37.8

England average 32.3

A level students
203

Pupils

Pupils on roll
1746
Places
1655
How full
Full — 1746 pupils against 1655 places
Girls / boys
831 / 915
Overall absence
7%

secondary schools average 8.6%

Persistently absent
19%

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

Free school meals, last 6 years
15%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
21%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
4%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
18%

England 15%

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
97%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
97%

England 85.4%

Started an apprenticeship
0%

England 3.5%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
66%
No sustained destination
2%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
261

After sixth form

Went to university
54%

England 50%

In education, work or training
79%

England 84.3%

Students in the cohort
229

Going on to university 2021/22 leavers

Went to a top third university

52% 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
86%

England 65.3%

Students in the cohort
241

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 Haringey 014C, 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
66%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
8%

England 18.3%

Households owning their home
53%

England 62.7%

Households in social housing
8%

England 17%

Households with no car
36%

England 21.9%

Adults economically inactive
30%

England 39.9%

School details

Type
Foundation school
Phase
Secondary
Ages
Ages 11–18
Gender
Mixed
Admissions
Non-selective
Religious character
None
Sixth form
Yes
Nursery
No
Boarding
Day school
Headteacher
Headteacher: Zoe Judge
Local authority
Haringey
Ward
Fortis Green
Constituency
Hornsey and Friern Barnet
URN
102156

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Nearest secondary schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Distance
Unique Children's SchoolOther independent school No grade 0.4 mi
The Archer AcademyFree schools No grade 55.9 0.8 mi
Alexandra Park SchoolAcademy converter Outstanding 2023 61.2 0.9 mi
Highgate Wood Secondary SchoolCommunity school No grade 56.3 1.1 mi
Bishop Douglass School FinchleyAcademy converter Good 2022 52.5 1.2 mi
The Compton SchoolAcademy converter Outstanding 2024 54.8 1.3 mi
Heartlands High SchoolAcademy converter No grade 45.4 1.4 mi
Highgate SchoolOther independent school No grade 1.4 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
Penistone Grammar SchoolCommunity school Good 2023 53.6
Swanmore CollegeCommunity school Good 2023 49.4
King Edward VI SchoolCommunity school Good 2022 52.2
Guilsborough AcademyAcademy converter Requires improvement 2023 46.6
The King's SchoolAcademy converter No grade 51.9
South Axholme AcademyAcademy converter Good 2023 53.2
Priory AcademyAcademy converter Good 2023 46.2
Egglescliffe SchoolAcademy converter Outstanding 2024 51.4

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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