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Girls secondary school in London, Barnet

Menorah High School for Girls

105 Brook Road, London, NW2 7BZ

Sixth form Jewish Girls Full
School website 02082080500

Ofsted

Judged to have improved significantly, on 4 December 2024.

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

66.7 England 47

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

Grade 5+ in English & maths

85% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

92% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

6.4 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

68% 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

1.58confidence interval 1.22 to 1.93

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
40.6

England average 32.3

A level students
32

Pupils

Pupils on roll
422
Places
400
How full
Full — 422 pupils against 400 places
Overall absence
8%

secondary schools average 8.6%

Persistently absent
35%

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

Free school meals, last 6 years
4%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
15%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
2%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
16%

England 15%

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
98%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
98%

England 85.4%

Started an apprenticeship
0%

England 3.5%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
91%
No sustained destination
2%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
53

After sixth form

Went to university
0%

England 50%

In education, work or training
41%

England 84.3%

Started an apprenticeship
0%

England 6.5%

Students in the cohort
34

Going on to university 2021/22 leavers

Went to a top third university

14% 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
47%

England 65.3%

Students in the cohort
43

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 Brent 011D, 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
38%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
21%

England 18.3%

Households owning their home
45%

England 62.7%

Households in social housing
20%

England 17%

Households with no car
36%

England 21.9%

Adults economically inactive
41%

England 39.9%

School details

Type
Voluntary aided school
Phase
Secondary
Ages
Ages 11–18
Gender
Girls
Religious character
Jewish
Sixth form
Yes
Nursery
No
Boarding
Day school
Headteacher
Headteacher: Esther Pearlman
Local authority
Barnet
Ward
Dollis Hill
Constituency
Brent East
URN
142627

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Nearest secondary schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Distance
E-ACT Crest AcademyAcademy sponsor led No grade 39.9 0.1 mi
North Brent SchoolFree schools Good 2024 0.9 mi
Beis Medrash ElyonOther independent school No grade 1.1 mi
ClarionAcademy converter Good 2022 44.8 1.2 mi
Hampstead SchoolCommunity school Good 2023 43.1 1.5 mi
Lycee International de LondresOther independent school No grade 1.5 mi
Harris Lowe Academy WillesdenAcademy sponsor led No grade 41.6 1.6 mi
Michaela Community SchoolFree schools Outstanding 2023 77.6 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
Sir Thomas Rich's SchoolAcademy converter No grade 77.2
Wren Academy EnfieldFree schools Good 2022 58.3
Lancaster Girls' Grammar SchoolAcademy converter Good 2022 73.4
The Ecclesbourne SchoolAcademy converter Good 2023 58.3
The Market Bosworth SchoolAcademy converter Outstanding 2024 59.5
The Hertfordshire & Essex High School and Science CollegeAcademy converter Outstanding 2023 63.6
The Bishop's Stortford High SchoolFoundation school Outstanding 2023 60.2
The Royal Grammar School, High WycombeAcademy converter No grade 73.9

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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