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City of London Academy, Highgate Hill

  • Secondary
  • Ages 11 to 18
  • 641 pupils
  • N19 3EU
  • Islington Safeguarding Children's Partnership

Evidence of the local risks around this school, ready for your child protection policy, your staff and your inspector.

Keeping children safe in education asks you to consider whether children are at risk outside their families. The report brings together what children's services across Islington, the police and the roads record around the school. It describes the area around the school. It never rates the school, its staff or its pupils.

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First finding · Harm and risk outside the home (ROTH) across Islington

Across Islington, children's social care recorded child criminal exploitation, child sexual exploitation, gangs, going missing, trafficking, sexual abuse by another child and physical abuse by another child in a higher share of assessments than across England.

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KCSIEFor schools and colleges

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Why it matters

Schools must consider the risks children face outside their families. This gives you the local evidence to do it.

“should consider whether children are at risk of abuse or exploitation in situations outside their families”

Keeping children safe in education 2026, paragraph 21

What you get

  1. The evidence What the police, children's services and the roads record around the school, sourced and dated. For your child protection policy KCSIE paragraph 21
  2. The staff briefing One page and six slides on what the area means for your staff. For the yearly staff safeguarding update KCSIE paragraph 12
  3. The governors' paragraph Ready for the annual safeguarding report, with the inspector's questions answered. For governors' oversight and inspection Ofsted's school inspection toolkit

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  • Road collisions within 500 m 156 12 children injured, 28 in drop-off and pick-up hours, 26 killed or seriously injured, 2021 to 2025 Typical school or college in England and Wales: 11
  • Neighbourhood deprivation Decile 3 1 is the most deprived tenth, 10 the least
  • Domestic abuse at home 34.3% of children's social care assessments across Islington name a parent or carer as its victim, year to 31 March 2025 England: 31.7%
  • Police-recorded crime Report only UK Crime Statistics' analysis of the police record around the school. Order the report
Sources and method

These describe the surroundings, never the site. Three distances, each for a reason: 500 metres is the streets nearest the gate, about six minutes' walk; a kilometre takes in the routes in; a mile is the area UK Crime Statistics ranks against every other mile in England and Wales. Road collisions: Department for Transport road casualty statistics. Deprivation: English Indices of Deprivation and Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation. Places: contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right (OS Open Greenspace), and National Public Transport Access Nodes. Public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Children's services: Department for Education, Children in need, reporting year 2025.

Harm and risk outside the home (ROTH) across Islington

Harm and risk outside the home (ROTH): share of assessments, Islington against England, the widest gap above England first

Islington England

  • Child criminal exploitation 8.4% against 3.2%
  • Gangs 5.8% against 1.7%
  • Going missing 6.1% against 3.3%
  • Child sexual exploitation 4.8% against 2.4%
  • Physical abuse by another child 5% against 3%
  • Sexual abuse by another child 4.2% against 2.5%
  • Trafficking 1.2% against 0.4%

This describes what social workers record for the whole authority, never this school or its pupils, and a higher share can reflect better identification as easily as more harm.

Local safeguarding arrangements

The school is covered by Islington Safeguarding Children's Partnership.

If a child is in immediate danger, call 999. Links checked 1 November 2026.

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The register entry
Unique reference number
143659
Type
Free schools
Type group
Free Schools
Status
Open
Phase
Secondary
Age range
11 to 18
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None
Pupils on roll
641
Free school meals
63 percent
Trust
City of London Academies Trust
UK provider reference number
10065003
Postcode
N19 3EU
Country
England
Register last checked
7 November 2026
Website
http://www.highgatehill.cola.org.uk/

Local authority: Islington (69 open schools and colleges). Trust: City of London Academies Trust.

About this school's place in the register

City of London Academy, Highgate Hill is listed in the Department for Education's register of schools, Get Information About Schools, under unique reference number 143659. Its type in the register is "Free schools", in the group the Department calls "Free Schools". It is part of CITY OF LONDON ACADEMIES TRUST, a trust whose schools share governance and, usually, safeguarding policy. Its UK provider reference number is 10065003. The register was last checked on 7 November 2026, and this entry last changed on 25 September 2026.

Its phase of education is secondary. The statutory age range is 11 to 18, which is the span of ages the school is registered to admit; the routes children take to the gate, and how independently they travel, follow from it. The intake is recorded as mixed. At the last school census 641 pupils were on roll, and 63 percent of them were eligible for free school meals, a register figure the report never uses to describe pupils. The register holds a website address for the school, linked below.

The school is in England, at postcode N19 3EU. Its grid reference is easting 529743, northing 187113, which is latitude 51.5680 and longitude -0.1294. That point is the centre of everything the safeguarding context report measures: the streets within a short walk, the parks, stops and stations nearby, the roads at the gate, and the neighbourhood statistics that surround it.

City of London Academy, Highgate Hill sits in the Islington local authority area, which has 69 open establishments in the register. The local authority is one of the three statutory safeguarding partners, with the integrated care board and the police, who together publish the local safeguarding arrangements and the threshold document a school's child protection policy refers to; the authority also sets out its early help offer, so the same authority context applies to every school in Islington.

The nearest schools in the register to City of London Academy, Highgate Hill are The Bridge Keystone (about 20 metres away), Duncombe Primary School (about 420 metres away), Margaret McMillan Nursery School (about 520 metres away), Whitehall Park School (about 530 metres away) and St John's Upper Holloway CofE Primary School (about 640 metres away). Distances are straight lines between grid references, not walking routes. Schools close together share many of the same streets, stops and parks, but each page and report is measured from that school's own site.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Get Information about Schools, Department for Education.