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The Henrietta Barnett School

Selective

National rank

Rank last year

86^%

A-level

97.2^%

GCSE

Need to know

Head teacher Emma MacLeod

Attendance 96.1%

Gender of entry Girls

Send pupils* 2.9% *Special educational needs and disabilities

Total pupils 793

Pupils on free school meals 6.3%

Progress 8

Progress 8 is a measure of the development a school cohort/pupils makes from year 6 to year 11. The data used is from 2024. There will be no KS2 updates for 2025 or 2026 due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The government is consulting on an improved version of Progress 8 and Attainment 8

WELL ABOVE AVERAGE

Our methodology

Results

Grade

34.1

38.1

13.8

A*/A

72.2

A*-B

Grade

9/8

6.2

9/8/7

97.2

What the school inspection says

“Pupils are very keen to acquire knowledge in a broad range of subjects, which include Latin, ancient Greek and classical civilisation. Their behaviour, attendance and attitudes to learning are excellent. Pupils maintain their focus in lessons for long periods of time and enjoy thinking about the questions teachers pose … Pupils’ confidence is largely the result of the school’s focus on building character by teaching pupils how to listen, debate and reason … Pupils and staff agree that bullying in the school is extremely rare, and this is supported by the school’s records … Leaders are rightly focused on improving the quality of the curriculum and assessment in every subject. Some subjects are further ahead than others on this journey.”

Inspection

2022

In detail *

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*Ofsted no longer makes an overall effectiveness judgment in inspections of state-funded schools. A five-point grading scale, including a new “exceptional” grade was introduced in November 2025.

About the school

Founded in 1911, HBS — last year, the highest-ranking state school in the combined league tables of state and independent school exam performance — is consistently one of the top state schools in the country. Built on the principle that education should be open to girls from different backgrounds to study and learn together and from each other, it became an academy in 2012.
Extracurricular clubs include animation, art and design technology, beginners’ Sanskrit, biology, book club, current affairs, economics, French debating, gardening, LGBT+, Greek, green team, creative writing and robotics. Students can sign up for the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award in Year 10.
There is a strong alumnae organisation. Former pupils include the life peers Baroness Altmann, Baroness Evans and Munira Wilson, the Liberal Democrat MP for Twickenham.
HBS has opened a health and wellbeing centre, and students are offered one-to-one mentoring and access to counselling.
London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (Lamda) qualifications are offered up to the sixth form.
In 2025, 28 year 13 students gained an Oxbridge place (21 per cent of the year group), with 121 places secured at Russell Group universities overall (90 per cent of the year group).
The Henrietta Barnett School was our State Secondary School of the Year for Academic Excellence 2025, State Secondary School of the Year for GCSE 2025, Joint State Secondary School of the Year for A-levels 2025 and State Secondary State School of the Year in London for Academic Excellence 2025

office@hbschool.org.uk

Telephone

020 8458 8999

Website

hbschool.org.uk

Address

Central Square, Hampstead Garden Suburb, London, NW11 7BN

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