The Holmewood School[1]
Special · ages 7–19
Headline results
Special schools' results are not shown as headlines: they are not comparable with mainstream schools'.
Results
Results at special schools and alternative provision aren't comparable with mainstream schools'. Shown as published, not compared.
GCSE (key stage 4)
- Attainment 8
- 16.2 2025/26[2]
- Grade 5+ in English & maths
- 0% 2025/26[2]
- Grade 7+ in English & maths
- 0% 2025/26[2]
- Progress 8, 2025/26
- Not calculated[3]
- Progress 8, 2024/25
- Not calculated[3]
Ofsted
- Inspected by
- Independent Schools Inspectorate (ISI)[8]
ISI inspection
- Inspection
- November 2025[9]
- Framework
- Framework from September 2023[9]
- Leadership and governance
- Standards met[9]
- Quality of education
- Standards met[9]
- Health and wellbeing
- Standards met[9]
- Social and economic education
- Significant strength[9]
- Safeguarding
- Standards met[9]
Social and economic education
- ISI found (November 2025): The school’s inclusive culture helps students feel accepted and kind to each other, and prepares them well for life in modern Britain.
Findings of the Independent Schools Inspectorate (ISI), restated in our own words: not ISI's wording. Read the full report on ISI's website.
Competition to get in
No published data for this school.
Character & practicalities
- Type
- Other independent special school[1]
- Ages
- 7–19[1]
- Boys / girls
- Mixed[1]
- Admissions
- Selective[1]
- Boarding
- No boarders[1]
- Capacity
- 100[1]
- Local authority
- Barnet[1]
- Website
- www.thsl.org.uk[1]
- Special classes
- Has Special Classes[8]
- Section 41 (can be named in an EHC plan)
- Not approved[8]
- District
- Barnet[10]
- Postcode
- N12 8SH[1]
- URN
- 136263[1]
School details as recorded in Get Information About Schools on 14 Oct 2026.
Pupils
- Number on roll
- 92 2024/25[11]
- SEN support
- 1.1% 2024/25[11]
- EHC plan
- 98.9% 2024/25[11]
- Free school meals in the last 6 years
- 0% 2024/25[11]
Sources
- Department for Education: Get Information About Schools: all establishments. Period 2026-10-14, published 2026-10-14. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
- Department for Education: Performance tables schools data (explore education statistics). Period 2025/26, provisional, published 2026-10-15. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
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Department for Education: Key stage 4 performance 2024/25: data guidance. Period 2024/25.
Archived copy; original.
Licence: OGL-3.0.
Quote
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.
- Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 final. Period 2024/25, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
- Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 final. Period 2023/24, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
- Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 final. Period 2022/23, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
- Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 final. Period 2021/22, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
- Department for Education: Get Information About Schools: all establishments (independent schools' inspectorate and provision). Period 2026-10-17, published 2026-10-17. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
- Independent Schools Inspectorate: School inspection report, The Holmewood School, November 2025. Period 2026-10-17. Licence: all-rights-reserved (restated only, D71).
- Office for National Statistics: Parish to Ward to Local Authority District (May 2026) Lookup in EW. Period 2026-05-01. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
- Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: School census. Period 2024/25, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.