Loughborough High School A GSG School
- Loughborough High School
Burton Walks
Loughborough
Leicestershire
LE11 2DU - Head: Dr Fiona Miles
- T 01509 212348
- F 01509 215720
- E high.office@lsf.org
- W www.lsf.org/high
- A mainstream independent school for girls aged from 11 to 18 with a linked senior school
- Boarding: No
- Local authority: Leicestershire
- Pupils: 527; sixth formers: 147
- Religion: Non-denominational
- Fees: £15,900 - £16,170 pa
- Open days: Personal tours, taster days, virtual visits and open days are available throughout the year.
- Review: View The Good Schools Guide Review
- Ofsted report: View the Ofsted report
- ISI report: View the ISI report
- Linked schools: Loughborough Amherst School, Loughborough Grammar School, Fairfield Prep School
What The Good Schools Guide says..
Loughborough Schools Foundation’s spacious town centre campus boasts something of a ‘one stop shop’. Academic pace is ‘quick’ but ‘no one gets left behind’. Pupils we spoke to concurred - ‘teachers get to know you’, ‘they encourage you to achieve more’ are ‘really caring and attentive’.‘Stand out’ music school is the ‘creme de la crème,’ a parent marvelled. ‘It’s why we sent our daughters here.’ ‘Our enrichment is a strong selling point,’ asserts head. Years 10 and 11 choose from CCF, sports leaders, additional maths, HPQ or music. In sixth form, yet more options include EPQ, volunteering...
What the school says...
Loughborough High School is a lively academic school which offers a traditional education in an excellent environment alongside numerous co-curricular activities. Our pupils not only achieve very good results but they also learn to be active and participative members of the community, developing excellent leadership and communication skills.
Entrance Assessments consist of:
Entry to Year 7 – English, Maths and Reasoning. Reference from current school.
Entry to Years 8, 9 and 10 – English, Maths and Reasoning. Interview. Reference from current school.
Entry to Year 12 – Interview and GCSE grades. Reference from current school. ...Read more
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All-through school (for example 3-18 years). - An all-through school covers junior and senior education. It may start at 3 or 4, or later, and continue through to 16 or 18. Some all-through schools set exams at 11 or 13 that pupils must pass to move on.
What The Good Schools Guide says
Head
Since 2019, Dr Fiona Miles BA MD. With strong family roots in the Midlands, she felt this post was her ‘destiny’, adding with a twinkle in her eye, ‘I went to Nottingham Girls’ High School - LHS were our sporting rivals so it’s nice to be on the winning team now’. Read English at Cambridge and cut teeth at Haberdashers’ Aske’s School For Girls. But with thoughts of medicine ‘always in the back of my mind,’ she decided to retrain at King’s College London. Quickly felt, however, that medicine was ‘patching up, not developing a relationship’, so returned to teaching – and indeed Habs - to make ‘more meaningful change to a person’s life’. Rose to head of English, assistant head and then deputy head (academic) before coming here, where she works closely with...
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Overall school performance (for comparison or review only)
Results by exam and subject
Subject results
Entry/Exit
Special Education Needs
We are currently able to offer limited support for pupils with special educational needs but are not able to offer any specialist teaching. The progress of pupils with special educational needs is carefully monitored.
| Condition | Provision for in school |
|---|---|
| ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder | Y |
| Aspergers | Y |
| Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorders | Y |
| CReSTeD registered for Dyslexia | |
| Dyscalculia | |
| Dysgraphia | |
| Dyslexia | Y |
| Dyspraxia | Y |
| English as an additional language (EAL) | Y |
| Genetic | Y |
| Has an entry in the Autism Services Directory | |
| Has SEN unit or class | Y |
| HI - Hearing Impairment | Y |
| Hospital School | |
| Mental health | Y |
| MLD - Moderate Learning Difficulty | |
| MSI - Multi-Sensory Impairment | Y |
| Natspec Specialist Colleges | |
| OTH - Other Difficulty/Disability | Y |
| Other SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty | Y |
| PD - Physical Disability | |
| PMLD - Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulty | |
| SEMH - Social, Emotional and Mental Health | Y |
| SLCN - Speech, Language and Communication | Y |
| SLD - Severe Learning Difficulty | |
| Special facilities for Visually Impaired | |
| SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty | Y |
| VI - Visual Impairment | Y |
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