Fortismere School A GSG School
- Fortismere School
South Wing
Tetherdown
London
N10 1NE - Head: Ms Zoe Judge and Ms Jo Davey
- T 020 8365 4400
- F 020 8444 7822
- E [email protected]
- W www.fortismere…haringey.sch.uk
- A state school for boys and girls aged from 11 to 19.
- Boarding: No
- Local authority: Haringey
- Pupils: 1,820; sixth formers: 427
- Religion: Non-denominational
- Review: View The Good Schools Guide Review
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Ofsted:
- Latest Overall effectiveness Good 1
- 16-19 study programmes Good 1
- Outcomes for children and learners Good 1
- Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good 1
- Personal development, behaviour and welfare Good 1
- Effectiveness of leadership and management Good 1
- 1 Full inspection 26th April 2022
- Previous Ofsted grade: Outstanding on 17th November 2011
- Ofsted report: View the Ofsted report
What The Good Schools Guide says..
Dynamic arts provision extended with industry-standard opportunities, including workshops with professional artists and training by West End lighting and sound designers. The school continues to promote the comprehensive ideals of ‘non-elitism, equality and respect for diversity’, with a strong culture of supporting and celebrating diversity – it is, for example, a Stonewall School Champion. Pupil voice is heard low and clear, with peer-elected student leadership team...
What the school says...
Fortismere is a high achieving, dynamic, mixed foundation secondary school in the heart of vibrant Muswell Hill. We have a strong focus on outstanding progress and attainment for all of our students, as well as cultural enrichment. It is our vision that the school will win hearts and minds through adding value to its students and staff. ...Read more
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Curricula
Cambridge Pre-U - an alternative to A levels, with all exams at the end of the two-year course.
What The Good Schools Guide says
Co-heads
Since 2018, Jo Davey and Zoe Judge.
More-or-less an old girl, Davey, formerly deputy head, attended Creighton School, a forerunner of Fortismere. Originally joined the staff as a part-time consultant in 2013, while deputy head of Blanche Nevile School for Deaf Children. Previously taught history and politics, acted as a school improvement consultant and senior secondary advisor. Continues to work as an Ofsted inspector. At Fortismere, her stated objective is to maintain the school’s ‘inclusive ethos’, while focusing on academic outcome.
Judge began her teaching career in Barking and Dagenham, before joining Fortismere in 2002 as a member of the English department. Since then, she’s taught English, media and film, served as head of year, assistant head and head of sixth form, where she helped make...
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Overall school performance (for comparison or review only)
Results by exam and subject
Subject results
Entry/Exit
Special Education Needs
No comment. Light firmly under bushel - but quite a bright light, in the opinion of the GSG. SEN details added by us.
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.
For help and explanation of our catchment maps see: Catchment maps explained
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.
Children get into the school from here:
regularly
most years
quite often
infrequently
sometimes, but not in this year
Who came from where
| School | Year | Places |
|---|---|---|
| North Bridge House Preparatory School | 2023 | 2 |
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