Highgate School   Highgate School North Road

Welcome to our website! We hope that it will give you a feel for Highgate and that you will want to come and visit us.Open mornings and evenings are held throughout the year when you will have a chance to meet current pupils, tour the school and hear from me (Senior School) or my colleagues who lead the Junior and Pre-Preparatory Schools. In anticipation, you may like to watch a short film which will give you an insight into life here: no speeches, hard sell or boring bits, the films feature current pupils talking about their experiences interspersed with short clips of lessons, activities and pupils at play. Click here to avoid the dull bits below and go straight to the films.Highgate is three schools in one: the Pre-Preparatory School (ages 3-7) and the Junior School (ages 7-11), each with its own Principal, and the Senior School (ages 11-18). Girls and boys in roughly equal numbers are admitted at 3+, 7+, 11+, 13+ and 16+ from a diverse range of backgrounds and schools, both state and independent, throughout North London and further afield. We provide means-tested bursaries and honorary scholarships (both academic and musical) at 11+, 13+ and 16+. We are a day school and don't have lessons (only activities, like sports fixtures or outward bound trips) on Saturdays. Highgate has a Christian heritage, dating back to its foundation under Elizabeth I, of which it is proud, but also a long tradition, of which it is equally proud, of welcoming pupils, teachers and support staff from other faiths or none.We want Highgate to be a happy, cohesive community where pupils from many different backgrounds enjoy life to the full, value their friendships and achieve balance in their lives. We want them to leave us for places at academically-demanding, selecting universities, here or abroad, with the ambition, motivation, skills and staying-power to study independently and make a success of their studies. We want them to be emotionally and intellectually ready for the world of work: creative problem-solvers; rigorous and imaginative thinkers; balanced risk-takers; team-players and leaders. We want them to enjoy a childhood to the full and to have developed and pursued passions, both academic and extra-curricular. We want them to have grown as individuals, conscious of the advantages they have enjoyed and of the opportunities and obligations such advantage brings. We want them to carry on their learning away from Highgate and regardless of exams.Come and find out for yourselves: I look forward to meeting you!