Edmonton County School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents and pupils

This is a good school. The headteacher and senior leadership team are passionate about making sure that all students achieve their best. They set high standards and through their drive and ambition have successfully raised the quality of teaching and students' achievement.

Governors are well informed and use their wide range of experience and knowledge to support and successfully challenge the senior leadership team to improve all aspects of the school's work. Teaching is good and at times outstanding. Teachers have good subject knowledge and high expectations which they use effectively to engage and motivate students to want to do well.

Students' achievement ...is good. The progress that students make in most subjects is at least good given their starting points, and in English progress is outstanding. Students say they feel safe and well cared for.

The school's work to keep them safe is good. Students' behaviour is good and attitudes to learning are positive. This contributes greatly to the good progress that students make.

Students' spiritual, moral, social and cultural development is promoted successfully through a wide range of activities and a variety of well-attended after school clubs. Students are proud of the different cultures and religions in the school and show a clear understanding and awareness of British values of respect and tolerance. Children in the newly opened Reception, and pupils in Year 1 and Year 2 classes have made positive starts to their learning because of clear leadership and good teaching.

Provision in the sixth form is good and improving. The achievement of students has improved considerably since the previous inspection. Strong and determined leadership, and better quality teaching have brought about these changes.

It is not yet an outstanding school because : Not all teachers plan work which is accurately matched to the abilities of the less-able students. As a result some do not make the rapid progress of which they are capable. The systems and policies that have been introduced to improve the work of the school are not always consistently applied by all staff.

Information about this school

Edmonton County School became an all-through school on 1 January 2014. Previous to that it was an 11 to 18 comprehensive school. The school admitted pupils into two full-time Reception classes, one Year 1 class and one Year 2 class.

The school is a larger than average-sized all-through school situated on two sites just under a mile apart. A large proportion of students come from minority ethnic groups, the largest groups represented are of Turkish, Greek, Black African and Black Caribbean heritage. The proportions of students who speak English as an additional language, or who are at an early stage in learning English, are well above average.

Just over a half of the students are supported by the pupil premium, which is well above the national average. This is additional government funding for students who are known to be eligible for free school meals or who are looked after by the local authority. The proportion of disabled students and those who have special educational needs is a fifth of the school's population, which is above the national average.

Thirteen Key Stage 4 students receive part of their education away from the school site. These students are following work-related courses at: WinWec/Raise, Edmonton; Capel Manor College, Enfield; and Barnet College, Barnet. The school meets the government's current floor standards, which set the minimum expectations for students' achievement and progress by the end of Year 11.