St Michael Competitors

Highgate is one of the UK’s leading co-educational independent schools. Founded 460 years ago, we welcome pupils, aged 4 to 18, from a range of backgrounds across London and beyond. Highgate offers high-calibre, academically-minded teaching with a focus on scholarship and independence for all, rather than on exam outcomes. Our varied co-curricular activities, and our wide-reaching programme of community service, help our pupils develop interests and hobbies, forge lasting friendships, belong to teams, ensembles and casts, and learn the value of community. We believe in making the most of childhood and adolescence; we want our young people to leave us intellectually and emotionally prepared for higher study and for work, and for playing a transformative role in their communities. Highgate consists of a Pre-Prep, Junior, Senior and Sixth Form and is a lead sponsor of partner Sixth Form, the London Academy of Excellence Tottenham. Pupils are admitted at 4+, 7+, 11+ and 16+ from a diverse range of state and independent schools across London and further afield. We offer means-tested bursaries at 7+, 11+ and 16+ for eligible families who are looking for fee assisted places. Our awards include: Sunday Times Guide 2025 - Top 10 Independent School for Academic Excellence London. Sunday Times Guide 2025 - Top 20 Independent School for Academic Excellence UK. Sunday Times Guide 2021 - London Independent Secondary School of the Decade.

Acland Burghley School is a community comprehensive school in Camden that provides a rich and stimulating education for boys and girls aged 11 to 19.

Queen's is an independent day school for girls between the ages of 11 and 18, and occupies four large houses on Harley Street. We are academically selective, but not narrowly so, and we place very great importance on the nurture and development of the talents of each individual pupil. This is not a school to force anyone into a mould, and we are very proud of that. Our size allows for small classes and close relations between the well qualified staff and pupils, but we are large enough to be able to offer a wide range of subjects and subject combinations. Being situated at the heart of the capital, we are able to take full advantage of the cultural life of London, and to draw upon the museums, galleries, theatres and concert halls around. And while Queen's girls come from a huge range of different backgrounds and traditions, they share a self-confidence and open-mindedness which enables them to embark upon their university courses and future careers with vigour and success. Queen's is a unique institution - with an exceptional history behind it and a distinctive approach to the education of girls and young women in the 21st century.