Highlands School, Grange Park

at , London , N21 1QQ United Kingdom

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Highlands School is a comprehensive school in Grange Park in the London Borough of Enfield in England. The school opened in 2000 in new purpose built accommodation with state of the art equipment. From September 2006 the school has been full with pupils from Years 7 - 13 including a large sixth form.HousesHighlands School has four houses, Willow, Beech, Oak and Rowan. The students wear a green uniform with a green tie with a stripe of the colour of their house on it. Beech is blue, Willow is green, Rowan is red and Oak is purple but used to be silver (grey).International BaccalaureateIt has been an International Baccalaureate World School since December 2004, and sixth form students may take the International Baccalaureate Diploma (IB) instead of A-level examinations. Since the sixth form opened in September 2005, the first year of IB students took their exams in 2007, and 55% failed. Seven students were disqualified for alleged malpractice. Bruce Goddard, the headteacher, was quoted as saying, "In some cases we are currently lodging appeals against this." The school has since decided to drop the IB and switch to A-levels.BTECHighlands also offers a variety of BTEC courses all of which are fully coursework and range from BTEC Media to Child Care. Unlike the IB, Highlands has decided to continue this course.OFSTEDHighlands has received two OFSTED Outstanding Ratings: One in 2011 and one in 2014.

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Highlands School, Grange Park is London based place and this enity listed in School category. N21 1QQ. Contact phone number of Highlands School, Grange Park: 020 8370 1100