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Friern Barnet School[1]

Secondary · ages 11–16

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Headline results

Attainment 8
A8 42 41.5 2025/26[2]

Results

GCSE (key stage 4)

Attainment 8
41.5 2025/26[2]
Grade 5+ in English & maths
30.1% 2025/26[2]
Grade 7+ in English & maths
7.4% 2025/26[2]
Progress 8
0.00 2023/24[3]
Progress 8, 2025/26
Not calculated[4]
Progress 8, 2024/25
Not calculated[4]
Earlier years
Year Attainment 8 Grade 5+ in English & maths Grade 7+ in English & maths Progress 8
2024/25 44.8[5] 29.6%[5]
2023/24 44.6[3] 36.4%[3] 0.00[3]
2022/23 43.9[6] 33%[6] -0.14[6]
2021/22 47[7] 45%[7] +0.15[7]

Destinations after GCSEs

Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment
93% 2022/23[8]
School sixth form
24% 2022/23[8]
Sixth-form college
20% 2022/23[8]
Further education college
48% 2022/23[8]
Apprenticeship
0% 2022/23[8]
Employment
1% 2022/23[8]
Earlier leavers
Left in Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment School sixth form Sixth-form college Further education college Apprenticeship Employment
2021/22 94%[9] 22%[9] 19%[9] 52%[9] 0%[9] 1%[9]
2020/21 95%[10] 21%[10] 13%[10] 59%[10] 1%[10] 1%[10]
2019/20 94%[11] 21%[11] 13%[11] 58%[11] 0%[11] 1%[11]
2018/19 90%[12] 18%[12] 13%[12] 57%[12] 1%[12] 1%[12]

Shares of the pupils who left in the year shown. Russell Group and Oxford or Cambridge figures were published for leavers up to 2019/20 only.

Ofsted

Latest inspection
20 Feb 2024[13]
Type
Section 8 inspection of good and outstanding schools[13]
Report published
24 Apr 2024[13]
Safeguarding is effective
Yes[13]
Outcomes for ungraded and monitoring inspections
School remains Good[13]
Earlier inspections
InspectionTypeOverall
30 Oct 2018[14] S5 Inspection[14] Good[14]
18 Apr 2018[15] Maintained Academy and School Short inspection[15] No overall grade[15]

Competition to get in

Applications and offers, Year 7

Applications per place
2.4 Entry Sept 2026[16]
Applications (any preference)
244 Entry Sept 2026[16]
First preferences
29 Entry Sept 2026[16]
Places offered
102 Entry Sept 2026[16]
First preferences per place
0.3 Entry Sept 2026[16]
Earlier years
Entry Applications First preferences Places offered Per place First preferences per place
Entry Sept 2025 270[16] 29[16] 146[16] 1.8[16] 0.2[16]
Entry Sept 2024 301[16] 41[16] 124[16] 2.4[16] 0.3[16]
Entry Sept 2023 343[16] 50[16] 142[16] 2.4[16] 0.4[16]
Entry Sept 2022 329[16] 47[16] 156[16] 2.1[16] 0.3[16]

Character & practicalities

Type
Community school[1]
Ages
11–16[1]
Boys / girls
Mixed[1]
Admissions
Non-selective[1]
Sixth form
No[1]
Boarding
No boarders[1]
Capacity
810[1]
Local authority
Barnet[1]
Website
http://www.friern.barnet.sch.uk/[1]
District
Barnet[17]
Postcode
N11 3LS[1]
URN
101345[1]

School details as recorded in Get Information About Schools on 14 Oct 2026.

Pupils

Number on roll
641 2024/25[18]
English as an additional language
47.4% 2024/25[18]
SEN support
12.8% 2024/25[18]
EHC plan
5.9% 2024/25[18]
Free school meals in the last 6 years
42% 2024/25[18]

Pupils' ethnicity 2025/26

White
47%[19]
Mixed
9.1%[19]
Asian
8.3%[19]
Black
17.9%[19]
Any other ethnic group
13%[19]
Unclassified
4.6%[19]

The school census's major ethnic groups as shares of the school's pupils, summed by us from the published counts. For information only: never used to rank, filter or colour schools.

Sources

  1. Department for Education: Get Information About Schools: all establishments. Period 2026-10-14, published 2026-10-14. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  2. Department for Education: Performance tables schools data (explore education statistics). Period 2025/26, provisional, published 2026-10-15. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  3. Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 final. Period 2023/24, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  4. Department for Education: Key stage 4 performance 2024/25: data guidance. Period 2024/25. Archived copy; original. Licence: OGL-3.0.
    Quote
    It is not possible to calculate Progress 8 for academic years 2024/25 and 2025/26 due to gaps in the baseline caused by COVID-19 disruption.
  5. Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 final. Period 2024/25, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  6. Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 final. Period 2022/23, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  7. Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 final. Period 2021/22, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  8. Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 destinations. Period 2022/23, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  9. Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 destinations. Period 2021/22, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  10. Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 destinations. Period 2020/21, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  11. Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 destinations. Period 2019/20, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  12. Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 destinations. Period 2018/19, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  13. Ofsted: State-funded schools inspections and outcomes. Period 2023/24. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  14. Ofsted: State-funded schools inspections and outcomes. Period 2018/19. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  15. Ofsted: State-funded schools inspections and outcomes. Period 2017/18. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  16. Department for Education: Primary and secondary school applications and offers: school level. Period Entry Sept 2026, final, published 2026-06-29. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  17. Office for National Statistics: Parish to Ward to Local Authority District (May 2026) Lookup in EW. Period 2026-05-01. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  18. Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: School census. Period 2024/25, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  19. Department for Education: Schools, pupils and their characteristics: school level underlying data. Period 2025/26, published 2026-06-04. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.