Higham Lane School

Higham Lane is a heavily over-subscribed, 11-18, comprehensive academy with just under 1500 students, set on an attractive site on the Warwickshire-Leicestershire border, easily accessible due to excellent road, train and bus connections.

We are very proud to have been rated as Outstanding by Ofsted in our last Ofsted inspection in May 2025, one of only a small number of schools in England to have achieved the highest rating that year. Achievement in all its forms: artistic, academic, social, cultural and sporting is equally valued in our diverse, knowledge-rich curriculum. We are strongly committed to ensuring that all of the young people in our care make progress and we take great pride in securing both impressive progress and high attainment for our students, whatever their starting points. Higham Lane is one of the highest-achieving non-selective comprehensive schools in Warwickshire with an Achievement 8 score of 53.98 in 2024, which is well-above national average. Our Progress 8 figure of +0.6 demonstrates that our teaching and learning and student behaviour and engagement are excellent and students excel at Higham Lane School. In July 2021, we were granted World Class Schools status, one of a very small number of schools to achieve this.

We are also delighted to have achieved equally as impressive A level results in our Sixth Form with 28.3% A*-A and 58.5% A*-B, an average grade of B- and a Value Addedscore of +0.26, making Higham Lane one of the top performing Sixth Forms in Warwickshire. We are excited by the opportunities which our recent merger with the Central England Academy Trust will bring us and are also delighted that the Department for Education has given the Trust permission to open a new secondary Free School, Higham Lane North Academy, in 2025 and this is already providing exciting opportunities for staff development, recruitment and retention.

Our school has a strong ethos based on mutual respect between students and staff and very clear expectations regarding students’ effort and behaviour. We enjoy an excellent reputation with parents/carers and are always over-subscribed. You will find a happy, caring and purposeful environment at Higham Lane. Students get on exceptionally well, both with each other and with our staff, who take pride in working here. Our students are encouraged to do their very best in every aspect of their lives and to reach the highest standards, irrespective of their ability. We encourage them to “Be the best you can be”, by working hard, being kind and taking responsibility.