Hornsey School for Girls[1]

Secondary · ages 11–16

Headline results

Attainment 8: A8 48 47.9 2025/26[2]

Results

GCSE (key stage 4)

Attainment 8: 47.9 2025/26[2]
Grade 5+ in English & maths: 49.2% 2025/26[2]
Grade 7+ in English & maths: 18.9% 2025/26[2]
Progress 8: +0.38 2023/24[3]
Progress 8, 2025/26: Not calculated[4]
Progress 8, 2024/25: Not calculated[4]

Earlier years
Year	Attainment 8	Grade 5+ in English & maths	Progress 8
2024/25	49.7[5]	48.7%[5]
2023/24	49.5[3]	48.7%[3]	+0.38[3]
2022/23	50.9[6]	51%[6]	+0.29[6]
2021/22	50.7[7]	52%[7]	+0.10[7]

A level (16–18)

A-level average grade: C- 2018/19[8]
AAB or better, at least two in facilitating subjects: 5.6% 2018/19[8]
All results, 2020/21: Not published (exams cancelled, COVID-19)[9]
All results, 2019/20: Not published (exams cancelled, COVID-19)[9]

Earlier years
Year	A-level average grade	AAB or better, at least two in facilitating subjects
2017/18	C-[10]	2.6%[10]
2016/17	C-[11]	2.3%[11]
2015/16	C[12]	3.2%[12]
2014/15	C[13]

Destinations after GCSEs

Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment: 92% 2022/23[14]
School sixth form: 37% 2022/23[14]
Sixth-form college: 25% 2022/23[14]
Further education college: 28% 2022/23[14]
Apprenticeship: 1% 2022/23[14]
Employment: 0% 2022/23[14]

Earlier leavers
Left in	Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment	School sixth form	Sixth-form college	Further education college	Apprenticeship	Employment
2021/22	91%[15]	41%[15]	22%[15]	27%[15]	0%[15]	0%[15]
2020/21	94%[16]	35%[16]	25%[16]	30%[16]	1%[16]	1%[16]
2019/20	96%[17]	38%[17]	20%[17]	36%[17]	0%[17]	1%[17]
2018/19	95%[18]	25%[18]	26%[18]	42%[18]	0%[18]	1%[18]

Destinations after 16–18 study

Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment: 91% 2016/17[19]
UK higher education: 72% 2016/17[19]
Education: 75% 2016/17[19]
Apprenticeship: 6% 2016/17[19]
Employment: 9% 2016/17[19]

Earlier leavers
Left in	Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment	UK higher education	Education	Apprenticeship	Employment
2015/16	88%[20]	62%[20]	72%[20]	5%[20]	10%[20]
2014/15	93%[21]	80%[21]	83%[21]	0%[21]	9%[21]
2013/14	94%[22]	62%[22]	82%[22]		12%[22]

Higher education after 16–18 study

Progressed to higher education: 81% 2015/16[23]
Top third of most selective universities: 26% 2015/16[23]
Russell Group universities: 14% 2015/16[23]
Oxford or Cambridge: 0% 2015/16[23]

Shares of the pupils who left in the year shown. Russell Group and Oxford or Cambridge figures were published for leavers up to 2019/20 only.

Ofsted

Latest inspection: 16 Mar 2022[24]
Type: Section 8 inspection of good and outstanding schools[24]
Report published: 18 May 2022[24]
Safeguarding is effective: Yes[24]
Outcomes for ungraded and monitoring inspections: School remains Good[24]

Earlier inspections
Inspection	Type	Overall
14 Mar 2017[25]	Maintained Academy and School Short inspection[25]	No overall grade[25]

Competition to get in

Applications and offers, Year 7

Applications per place: 3.2 Entry Sept 2026[26]
Applications (any preference): 249 Entry Sept 2026[26]
First preferences: 44 Entry Sept 2026[26]
Places offered: 79 Entry Sept 2026[26]
First preferences per place: 0.6 Entry Sept 2026[26]

Earlier years
Entry	Applications	First preferences	Places offered	Per place	First preferences per place
Entry Sept 2025	281[26]	56[26]	107[26]	2.6[26]	0.5[26]
Entry Sept 2024	322[26]	69[26]	116[26]	2.8[26]	0.6[26]
Entry Sept 2023	383[26]	93[26]	154[26]	2.5[26]	0.6[26]
Entry Sept 2022	416[26]	87[26]	160[26]	2.6[26]	0.5[26]

Character & practicalities

Type: Community school[1]
Ages: 11–16[1]
Boys / girls: Girls[1]
Admissions: Non-selective[1]
Sixth form: No[1]
Boarding: No boarders[1]
Capacity: 810[1]
Local authority: Haringey[1]
Website: http://www.hsg.haringey.sch.uk/[1]
District: Haringey [27]
Postcode: N8 9JF[1]
URN: 102153[1]

School details as recorded in Get Information About Schools on 14 Oct 2026.

Pupils

Number on roll: 663 2024/25[28]
English as an additional language: 28.7% 2024/25[28]
SEN support: 14.6% 2024/25[28]
EHC plan: 2.6% 2024/25[28]
Free school meals in the last 6 years: 32.7% 2024/25[28]

Pupils' ethnicity 2025/26

White: 41.3%[29]
Mixed: 14.3%[29]
Asian: 8.6%[29]
Black: 11.6%[29]
Any other ethnic group: 8.6%[29]
Unclassified: 15.7%[29]

The school census's major ethnic groups as shares of the school's pupils, summed by us from the published counts. For information only: never used to rank, filter or colour schools.

Sources

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It is not possible to calculate Progress 8 for academic years 2024/25 and 2025/26 due to gaps in the baseline caused by COVID-19 disruption.
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