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Secondary school in Northwood, Hillingdon

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Potter Street, Northwood, HA6 1QG

Ofsted Good · 2023 Sixth form

Ofsted

Goodas at 7 February 2023

Graded Good at its last graded inspection, on 7 February 2023.

Ofsted stopped awarding single-word overall grades in September 2024. This grade is 3 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

32.2 England 47

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

Grade 5+ in English & maths

22% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

38% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

2.5 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

0% England 40.8%

On Attainment 8 this school is in the bottom 10% of state-funded secondaries in England.

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

Progress 8 2023/24

-1.61confidence interval -2.11 to -1.10

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

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
C-
Average points per entry
27.5

England average 32.3

A level students
9

Pupils

Pupils on roll
240
Places
600
How full
40% full — 240 of 600 places taken, so places are likely to be available
Girls / boys
26 / 214
Overall absence
13%

secondary schools average 8.6%

Persistently absent
44%

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

Free school meals, last 6 years
42%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
8%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
4%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
10%

England 15%

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
94%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
84%

England 85.4%

Started an apprenticeship
10%

England 3.5%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
42%
No sustained destination
3%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
31

After sixth form

Went to university
33%

England 50%

In education, work or training
76%

England 84.3%

Started an apprenticeship
16%

England 6.5%

Students in the cohort
86

Going on to university 2021/22 leavers

Went to a top third university

4% 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
61%

England 65.3%

Students in the cohort
54

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 Hillingdon 002D, 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
47%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
16%

England 18.3%

Households owning their home
59%

England 62.7%

Households in social housing
7%

England 17%

Households with no car
23%

England 21.9%

Adults economically inactive
35%

England 39.9%

School details

Type
University technical college
Phase
Secondary
Ages
Ages 14–19
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None
Sixth form
Yes
Nursery
No
Boarding
Day school
Trust
ACTIVATE LEARNING EDUCATION TRUST
Headteacher
Headteacher: Jasmit Kallah
Local authority
Hillingdon
Ward
Northwood Hills
Constituency
Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner
URN
146375

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Nearest secondary schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Distance
Northwood SchoolAcademy converter No grade 58.4 0 mi
Haydon SchoolAcademy converter Good 2022 46 0.6 mi
St Helen's SchoolOther independent school No grade 1 mi
Northwood College for Girls GDSTOther independent school No grade 1 mi
Bishop Ramsey Church of England SchoolAcademy converter No grade 56 1.7 mi
Pinner High SchoolFree schools No grade 57.1 1.8 mi
Nower Hill High SchoolAcademy converter Outstanding 2023 59 2 mi
Hatch End High SchoolAcademy converter Good 2024 43.9 2.2 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
Our Lady's RC High SchoolVoluntary aided school No grade 49.1
Cantell SchoolFoundation school Outstanding 2024 46.9
St Edmund's Catholic AcademyAcademy converter No grade 50.2
Trinity AcademyFree schools Good 2022 38.7
St Thomas More Catholic School, WillenhallVoluntary aided school Good 2022 41.4
Oasis Academy BrightstoweAcademy sponsor led No grade 38.2
Droylsden AcademyAcademy sponsor led Good 2022 47.7
Fulwood AcademyAcademy sponsor led Good 2023 41.4

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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