A not judged community school school in Enfield. Explore Ofsted ratings, admissions information, and performance data for Highlands School.
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"Dare to flourish"
Vincent McInerney, Headteacher, describes Highlands as a high-performing, outstanding school with a thriving sixth form, a strong community, and a commitment to the DARE values. He notes the school’s Ofsted-outstanding status and invites prospective families to join for September 2026, as the school marks its 25th anniversary.
Deaf Resource Base ARP for Deaf learners providing language and communication support through BSL and spoken language, daily audiology checks and maintenance of hearing technology, Speech and Language Therapy, SEND Homework club, Colourful Semantics/Communication (Literacy intervention), Key worker programme, daily support in mainstream classrooms by CSWs for BSL users, bespoke curriculum arrangements where needed, access to specialist audiological equipment and acoustically friendly learning environments, access to a multi-agency support framework including educational psychologist, audiology advisory staff, CAMHS and support from advisory teachers, strong home-school links, Deaf awareness training for staff and students, weekly BSL lessons and Ed-Extra BSL club.
If there are more applications than places available, priority will be given to applicants in the following order: (1) A looked after child or a child who was previously looked after but immediately after being looked after becomes subject to an adoption, child arrangement or special guardianship order including those who appear to have been in state care outside of England and ceased to be in state care as a result of being adopted; (2) Children for whom a particular school is appropriate on exceptional medical grounds (supported by a doctor’s statement); (3) Children with a brother or sister attending Highlands at the time of application; (4) Children whose parent is a member of staff who has been at the school for two or more years or who has been recruited to fill a vacancy with a demonstrable skill shortage; (5) Children living nearest to the school measured in a straight line; if not possible to admit all, priority by distance (with a note that adopted children who were not previously looked after are not included in criterion 1).
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