Highgate Wood Secondary School

Term dates

Haringey council sets the term dates for this school. See all Haringey dates, taken from the council's own page.

• Term
• Holiday
• INSET day
• Exeat

Subscribe once: if the council changes the dates, your calendar updates by itself.

Admissions

Places for Year 7 are applied for through your home council, not the school.

Apply for a secondary school place on GOV.UK

How places are given: there's no entrance test. When there are more applicants than places, places usually go by criteria such as siblings, distance or catchment area. Check the council's or school's admissions policy for the exact rules.

For the sixth form, apply to the school directly.

How many families applied: Year 7

For September 2026, 205 families put this school as their first choice, and 232 places were offered. 159 of the families who put it first got a place (78%).

Offers made on national offer day, from the Department for Education. Waiting lists and appeals can change things later. The hardest schools to get into.

Ofsted inspection

Report card, 27 January 2026. Ofsted now grades each area separately, from exceptional to urgent improvement, with no single overall grade.

Inclusion

Expected standard

Curriculum and teaching

Expected standard

Achievement

Expected standard

Attendance and behaviour

Strong standard

Personal development and wellbeing

Expected standard

Sixth form

Expected standard

Leadership and governance

Expected standard

Safeguarding standards: met.

Read the Ofsted reports

From Ofsted's published inspection data (Open Government Licence). Report cards and older grades use different scales, so they can't be compared directly.

About and location

Type

Community school

Phase

Secondary

Ages

11–18

Pupils

1524 (capacity 1465)

Gender

Mixed

Phone

02083427970

Address

Montenotte Road, London, N8 8RN

Website

hws.haringey.sch.uk

Official school record, including Ofsted reports