Applications to Harrow secondary schools for the next academic year are now open and parents may be wondering where the borough’s top secondary schools rated are, rated by pupil progress.

Pupils are now able to apply to secure a place at a school of their choice for the 2025 academic year.

The application window closes on October 31, with offers being made nationally on March 1, 2025.

We have put together a list of secondary schools in Harrow that saw positive progress in pupils in 2023 according to the DfE.

The data is sourced from Progress 8 scores of the schools, which are based on progress between the end of Key Stage 2 (Year 6) and 4 (Year 11) in up to eight subjects compared to pupils across the country.

The compared subjects include English, maths, sciences, computer science, history, geography, and languages.

A score above zero indicates that pupils made more progress, on average, than pupils across England who got similar results at the end of Key Stage 2.

Whitmore High School

Pupils at the end of KS4 in 2024 at Whitmore performed well above the Harrow average of 0 to 0.17, receiving a 1.06 rating.

And 61% of pupils had a Grade 5 or above in English and maths GCSEs.

Bentley Wood High School

The academy was also well above average, with a 1.05 rating.

Even more people had a Grade 5 or higher in English and maths GCSEs, with 67%.

The Sacred Heart Language College

Sacred Heart was deemed well above average, with a 1.04 rating.

An impressive 75% of pupils had a Grade 5 or higher in the same subjects.

Avanti House School

This was also well above average, with a 0.93 rating.

At this school, 80% of pupils had a Grade 5 or above in the listed subjects.

Salvatorian Roman Catholic College

Pupils at the end of their KS4 education also performed well above average at this school, with a 0.62 rating.

And 71% of pupils had a Grade 5 or above.

Pinner High School

At this school, pupils also performed well above the average with a 0.56 rating.

There were 75% of pupils at the school with a Grade 5 or above in the two GCSE subjects.

Harrow High School

While the school was also well above average, with a 0.56 rating, just 39% of pupils had a Grade 5 or above in English and maths GCSEs.

Nower Hill High School

This school is the final one to be well above average in Harrow, this time with a 0.54 rating.

But 69% of pupils had a Grade 5 or above in the two subjects.

The DfE has stressed that a score below zero does not mean that pupils made no progress, but that compared with students with similar results at the end of KS 2, their progress was lower.

It should be noted that the data for the 2022-2023 academic year follows the Covid-19 pandemic, with a return to pre-pandemic qualification standards only being made this year.

The DfE added: “There are ongoing impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic, which affected individual schools, colleges and pupils differently.

“Performance data should be considered alongside a range of other information about the school or college, which could include looking at school or college websites, reading Ofsted reports, and speaking to the school or college directly.”