Central Foundation Boys' School A GSG School
- Central Foundation Boys' School
Cowper Street
City Road
London
EC2A 4SH - Head: Mr J Brownhill
- T 020 7253 3741
- F 020 7336 7295
- E [email protected]
- W www.centralfou…tionboys.co.uk/
- A mainstream state school for boys aged from 11 to 18 and girls aged from 16 to 18.
- Boarding: No
- Local authority: Islington
- Pupils: 1,106; sixth formers: 176 (24 girls)
- Religion: None
- Review: View The Good Schools Guide Review
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Ofsted:
- Latest Overall effectiveness Outstanding 1
- 16-19 study programmes Outstanding 1
- Effectiveness of leadership and management Outstanding 1
- 1 Full inspection 3rd February 2015
- Previous Ofsted grade: Good on 17th November 2010
- Ofsted report: View the Ofsted report
- Linked schools: Islington Sixth Form Consortium
What The Good Schools Guide says..
There could hardly be a more unlikely location for a school – smack in the middle of the City. ‘The school even smells of tradition,’ said one dad – and he’s right. Homework in abundance – building up from an hour in year 7 to two hours in year 11 – and woe betide any student who doesn’t hand it in on time. The boys we spoke to were not only enthused about their studies, but able to directly relate them to their futures...
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What The Good Schools Guide says
Head teacher
Since 2010, Jamie Brownhill LLB. Originally a lawyer, he worked as a construction litigator for City law firm Mayer Brown before training as a teacher at CFB in 2000. ‘I wouldn’t have gone to just any school,’ he says. ‘It was very much a sense of vocation and moral purpose that leads one from being a City lawyer to such a challenging environment.’ And lucky for the school that he did make that choice – after just five years at the top he’d completely turned it around.
Extremely visionary and not one for small talk, he is prone to sounding as if he’s permanently giving a speech, making big, sweeping statements (‘One needs to have a vision and follow it through’; ‘There’s a recognition that a head has an incredible...
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Interpreting catchment maps
The maps show in colour where the pupils at a school came from*. Red = most pupils to Blue = fewest.
Where the map is not coloured we have no record in the previous three years of any pupils being admitted from that location based on the options chosen.
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Further reading
If there are more applicants to a school than it has places for, who gets in is determined by which applicants best fulfil the admissions criteria.
Admissions criteria are often complicated, and may change from year to year. The best source of information is usually the relevant local authority website, but once you have set your sights on a school it is a good idea to ask them how they see things panning out for the year that you are interested in.
Many schools admit children based on distance from the school or a fixed catchment area. For such schools, the cut-off distance will vary from year to year, especially if the school give priority to siblings, and the pattern will be of a central core with outliers (who will mostly be siblings). Schools that admit on the basis of academic or religious selection will have a much more scattered pattern.
*The coloured areas outlined in black are Census Output Areas. These are made up of a group of neighbouring postcodes, which accounts for their odd shapes. These provide an indication, but not a precise map, of the school’s catchment: always refer to local authority and school websites for precise information.
The 'hotter' the colour the more children have been admitted.
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