Highbury Fields School (formerly Highbury Hill High School) is a

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for girls and coeducational sixth form, located next to

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in the Highbury area of the London Borough of Islington, England. The School has specialisms in Science and Mathematics, and is also a

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school. Highbury Fields School offers GCSEs as programmes of study for pupils. Students in the sixth form have the option to study from a range of

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which are provided as part of the Islington Sixth Form Consortium (iC6).

History

The school is credited with being a successor institution to the educational ideas introduced to England by Charles and Elizabeth Mayo at the school on Grey's Inn Road.Home and Colonial School Society
UCL, retrieved 1 January 2014

Grammar school

It was the former Highbury Hill School, a girls' grammar school. During the war, it evacuated to Huntingdon Grammar school, now

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Comprehensive

It became a comprehensive in 1981. Today it is a community school administered by Islington London Borough Council.

Notable former pupils

* Little Simz, actress, rapper and singer *

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former Minister of Finance Nigeria

Highbury Hill High School

* Edith Clara Batho, Principal of Royal Holloway College, University of London from 1945 to 1962 * Michelle Collins, ''EastEnders'' well-known actress, who played Cindy Beale, and Stella Price in ''Coronation Street'' *

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, artist *

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, actress * Andrea Levy, novelist * Sandy Ratcliff, ''

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'' actress who played Sue Osman, expelled at the age of 12

References

External links

* {{authority control Secondary schools in the London Borough of Islington Girls' schools in London Community schools in the London Borough of Islington