Highbury Fields School
Highbury Fields School is a community secondary school for girls and coeducational sixth form, located next to Highbury Fields in the Highbury area of the London Borough of Islington, England.
The School has specialisms in Science and Mathematics, and is also a Leading Edge Partnership 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 A Levels which are provided as part of the Islington Sixth Form Consortium .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.It was the former Highbury Hill School, a girls' grammar school. During the war, it evacuated to Huntingdon Grammar school, now Hinchingbrooke School.Comprehensive
It became a comprehensive in 1981.Notable former pupils
- Little Simz, actress, rapper and singer
- Kemi Adeosun former Minister of Finance Nigeria
- Edith Clara Batho, Principal of Royal Holloway College, University of London from 1945–62
- Michelle Collins, EastEnders well-known actress, who played Cindy Beale, and Stella Price in Coronation Street
- Marilyn Glenville FRSocMed, nutritionist
- Mary Kerridge, actress
- Andrea Levy, novelist
- Sandy Ratcliff, EastEnders actress who played Sue Osman, expelled at the age of 12
