Canons High School[1]

Secondary · ages 11–18

Headline results

Attainment 8: A8 40 39.7 2025/26[2]
A-level average grade: AL C C 2024/25[3]

Results

GCSE (key stage 4)

Attainment 8: 39.7 2025/26[2]
Grade 5+ in English & maths: 29.3% 2025/26[2]
Grade 7+ in English & maths: 4.2% 2025/26[2]
Progress 8: -0.07 2023/24[4]
Progress 8, 2025/26: Not calculated[5]
Progress 8, 2024/25: Not calculated[5]

Earlier years
Year	Attainment 8	Grade 5+ in English & maths	Progress 8
2024/25	39.1[6]	35.2%[6]
2023/24	47.6[4]	46.3%[4]	-0.07[4]
2022/23	43.3[7]	33%[7]	0.00[7]
2021/22	49.5[8]	50%[8]	-0.08[8]

A level (16–18)

A-level average grade: C 2024/25[3]
AAB or better, at least two in facilitating subjects: 4.5% 2024/25[3]
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
2023/24	D+[10]	2.2%[10]
2022/23	D+[11]	2.4%[11]
2021/22	C-[12]	7.2%[12]
2018/19	D+[13]	9.4%[13]

Destinations after GCSEs

Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment: 92% 2022/23[14]
School sixth form: 38% 2022/23[14]
Sixth-form college: 12% 2022/23[14]
Further education college: 39% 2022/23[14]
Apprenticeship: 1% 2022/23[14]
Employment: 1% 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	96%[15]	59%[15]	10%[15]	25%[15]	0%[15]	1%[15]
2020/21	95%[16]	56%[16]	9%[16]	29%[16]		0%[16]
2019/20	94%[17]	59%[17]	5%[17]	28%[17]	0%[17]	1%[17]
2018/19	93%[18]	60%[18]	5%[18]	25%[18]	2%[18]	1%[18]

Destinations after 16–18 study

Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment: 79% 2022/23[19]
Education: 60% 2022/23[19]
Apprenticeship: 4% 2022/23[19]
Employment: 15% 2022/23[19]

Earlier leavers
Left in	Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment	Education	Apprenticeship	Employment
2021/22	88%[20]	68%[20]	3%[20]	16%[20]
2020/21	86%[21]	71%[21]	3%[21]	12%[21]
2019/20	82%[22]	72%[22]	0%[22]	10%[22]
2018/19	80%[23]	63%[23]	2%[23]	15%[23]

Higher education after 16–18 study

Progressed to higher education: 78% 2021/22[24]
Top third of most selective universities: 11% 2021/22[24]
Russell Group universities: 16% 2019/20[25]
Oxford or Cambridge: 0% 2019/20[25]

Earlier leavers
Left in	Progressed to higher education	Top third of most selective universities	Russell Group universities	Oxford or Cambridge
2020/21	79%[26]	22%[26]
2019/20	80%[25]	17%[25]	16%[25]	0%[25]
2018/19	71%[27]	12%[27]	10%[27]	0%[27]
2017/18	63%[28]	12%[28]	12%[28]	0%[28]

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: 17 Jan 2023[29]
Type: Requires Improvement S5 Reinspection Visit 1[29]
Report published: 14 Mar 2023[29]
Personal development: Good[29]
Quality of education: Good[29]
Overall effectiveness: Good[29]
Behaviour and attitudes: Good[29]
Safeguarding is effective: Yes[29]
Sixth form provision (where applicable): Good[29]
Effectiveness of leadership and management: Good[29]

Earlier inspections
Inspection	Type	Overall
27 Mar 2019[30]	Exempt School Inspection[30]	Requires improvement[30]

Competition to get in

Applications and offers, Year 7

Applications per place: 1.6 Entry Sept 2026[31]
Applications (any preference): 303 Entry Sept 2026[31]
First preferences: 102 Entry Sept 2026[31]
Places offered: 193 Entry Sept 2026[31]
First preferences per place: 0.5 Entry Sept 2026[31]

Earlier years
Entry	Applications	First preferences	Places offered	Per place	First preferences per place
Entry Sept 2025	332[31]	103[31]	166[31]	2.0[31]	0.6[31]
Entry Sept 2024	357[31]	118[31]	208[31]	1.7[31]	0.6[31]
Entry Sept 2023	353[31]	120[31]	204[31]	1.7[31]	0.6[31]
Entry Sept 2022	369[31]	126[31]	214[31]	1.7[31]	0.6[31]

Character & practicalities

Type: Academy converter[1]
Ages: 11–18[1]
Boys / girls: Mixed[1]
Admissions: Non-selective[1]
Sixth form: Yes[1]
Boarding: No boarders[1]
Capacity: 1280[1]
Trust: CANONS HIGH SCHOOL[1]
Local authority: Harrow[1]
Website: www.canons.harrow.sch.uk [1]
District: Harrow [32]
Postcode: HA8 6AN[1]
URN: 137199[1]

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

Pupils

Number on roll: 1217 2024/25[33]
English as an additional language: 67.4% 2024/25[33]
SEN support: 7.6% 2024/25[33]
EHC plan: 1.2% 2024/25[33]
Free school meals in the last 6 years: 33.3% 2024/25[33]

Pupils' ethnicity 2025/26

White: 33.7%[34]
Mixed: 7.6%[34]
Asian: 32%[34]
Black: 14%[34]
Any other ethnic group: 12.3%[34]
Unclassified: 0.4%[34]

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.

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