State-fundedCommunity school · Harrow · HA2 0AD
Secondary with sixth form · ages 11–18
Whitmore High School is a state-funded school in Harrow, teaching pupils aged 11 to 18.
| 2023–24 | 2022–23 | 2021–22 | 3-year average | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Progress 8 | +0.7593rd percentile | +1.0698th percentile | +1.1599th percentile | +0.9998th percentile |
| Attainment 8 | 54.784th percentile | 57.789th percentile | 59.989th percentile | 57.488th percentile |
Progress 8 for 2023–24 was +0.75 — well above average, the 93rd percentile nationally. On average pupils left with grades about 0.75 of a grade per subject higher than pupils across England who had the same results at the end of primary school.
The 95% confidence interval for 2023–24 runs +0.58 to +0.93. That sits entirely above zero, so the above-average result is very unlikely to be chance. It has fallen in each of the years shown (2021–22 to 2023–24) — worth asking the school about at an open evening.
Attainment 8 is the average grade pupils leave with across eight GCSEs; it tells you where they ended up, and tracks the intake a school admits as much as anything the school does. Progress 8 compares those grades with pupils nationally who had the same results at the end of primary school, so it is the better measure of what a school added.
| Grade 5+ in English & Maths | 57%76th percentile |
|---|---|
| EBacc average point score | 5.0986th percentile |
A school can post a respectable overall score while coasting one group and carrying the average on another. The row that matters to you is the one your own child sits in.
| 2023–24 | 2022–23 | 2021–22 | 3-year average | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lower starters | +0.95 | +1.15 | +1.28 | +1.13 |
| Middle starters | +0.79 | +1.07 | +1.25 | +1.04 |
| Higher starters | +0.51 | +0.95 | +0.71 | +0.72 |
407 families named this school first for 257 places for 2026 entry — 1.58 first preferences per place.
| 2026 entry | 2025 entry | 2024 entry | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Per place | 1.58× | 1.33× | 1.78× |
This is how sought-after a school is, not how good it is — demand tracks house prices and older siblings as much as anything a school does. It is also not your chance of getting in: a school with two applicants per place can still admit everyone living near it, while a less popular school a mile further away turns you down. Distance is usually what decides it, and that depends on your address.
| Overall absence | 5.3%94th percentile |
|---|---|
| Persistently absent pupils | 13.5%92nd percentile |
Absence is worth reading next to results: it is a plainer signal of whether pupils are turning up and engaged than any grade average. Across the schools in this dataset the overall absence rate averages 9.0%, so this school is below the norm.
Not inspected, or no grade in the published data
Around half of schools currently have no grade here — usually recently opened schools, or academies whose last full inspection was under a predecessor URN.
The GCSE results here are for 2023–24 and earlier, which describes pupils who have already left. Nothing on this page covers where pupils go next, A-level or sixth-form results, pastoral care, how far a school pushes music, sport or drama, or how it feels to walk around — and those are the things parents most often say settled it. Visit at an open evening before you rank a school.
Nor is any of it a prediction of a place. Whether your child is offered one depends on the school's admission criteria and, most often, on how far you live from the gate.
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