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Secondary school in Harrow

Whitmore High School

Porlock Avenue, Harrow, HA2 0AD

Sixth form
School website 02088647688

Ofsted

Inspected under the current framework, which gives no overall grade, on 18 March 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

55 England 47

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

Grade 5+ in English & maths

57% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

73% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

5.1 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

91% England 40.8%

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

Compared with the fifth of schools whose intake is second most disadvantaged, which is where this one sits, it is in the top 10%.

Progress 8 2023/24

0.75confidence interval 0.58 to 0.93

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
36.7

England average 32.3

A level students
182

Pupils

Pupils on roll
1724
Places
1750
How full
Nearly full — 1724 of 1750 places taken
Girls / boys
833 / 891
Overall absence
5%

secondary schools average 8.6%

Persistently absent
12%

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

Free school meals, last 6 years
32%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
68%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
4%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
5%

England 15%

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
94%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
93%

England 85.4%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
63%
No sustained destination
4%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
265

After sixth form

Went to university
77%

England 50%

In education, work or training
90%

England 84.3%

Started an apprenticeship
2%

England 6.5%

Students in the cohort
191

Going on to university 2021/22 leavers

Went to a top third university

33% 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
84%

England 65.3%

Students in the cohort
151

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 027B, 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
15%

England 18.3%

Households owning their home
58%

England 62.7%

Households in social housing
2%

England 17%

Households with no car
28%

England 21.9%

Adults economically inactive
33%

England 39.9%

School details

Type
Community 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: James Rebbitt
Local authority
Harrow
Ward
West Harrow
Constituency
Harrow West
URN
102239

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Nearest secondary schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Distance
The John Lyon SchoolOther independent school No grade 0.4 mi
Harrow SchoolOther independent school No grade 0.7 mi
Heartwood HouseOther independent school No grade 1 mi
Rooks Heath SchoolAcademy converter Good 2024 40.7 1.1 mi
Harrow High SchoolAcademy converter Good 2023 47.4 1.2 mi
Nower Hill High SchoolAcademy converter Outstanding 2023 59 1.3 mi
Pinner High SchoolFree schools No grade 57.1 1.5 mi
Islip Manor High SchoolFoundation school No grade 38.3 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
De Aston SchoolAcademy converter Good 2022 42.5
Haven High AcademyAcademy converter Inadequate 2024 31.7
Woodchurch High SchoolAcademy converter No grade 37.9
Hall Park AcademyAcademy sponsor led Good 2024 43
Sir Thomas Boteler Church of England High SchoolAcademy sponsor led No grade 46.1
The Abbey SchoolAcademy converter No grade 35.5
Greenacre SchoolAcademy converter Inadequate 2023 29.8
All Saints Academy DunstableAcademy sponsor led No grade 36.9

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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