Avanti House School
Free schools · sixth form · 1,206 pupils
97% stayed in education · Attainment 8 64.0
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The Sacred Heart Language College
- Pupils on roll
- 714of 780 places
- Free school meals
- 20.9%
- Year 11 cohort 2025
- 181
- Ofsted
- Inspected, 5 November 2024Read the Ofsted report
Results below include those reported under the school’s previous registration: The Sacred Heart Language College (URN 102243, until 1 September 2018).
What the data says
The Sacred Heart Language College has no sixth form. Of the 181 pupils who finished Year 11 there in 2023, 61% moved to a sixth form college, 22% to a further education college and 1% started an apprenticeship.
Sixth form colleges are the main next step: 61% of leavers went to one, roughly three times the England rate of 13%.
GCSE results in 2025 were well above the national picture: Attainment 8 of 57.9 against 46.1 across England and 51.1 in Harrow, with 60% of pupils getting grade 5 or above in both English and maths (England 45%).
Religious Studies is unusually popular at GCSE: 96% of the year group took it, against 31% of pupils across England.
Where pupils went after Year 11
Destinations of the 2023 Year 11 leavers, measured the following year: the share in a sustained place for at least two terms. Compared with all state-funded schools in Harrow and England.
School sixth formSixth form collegeFurther education collegeOther educationApprenticeshipEmploymentNo sustained destination
| Measure | This school | Harrow | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils in the cohort | 181 | 2,618 | 607,348 |
| Any sustained destination | 99% | 95% | 92% |
| Stayed in education | 98% | 94% | 86% |
| — school sixth form | 15% | 49% | 34% |
| — sixth form college | 61% | 12% | 13% |
| — further education college | 22% | 32% | 37% |
| — other education | 1% | 2% | 2% |
| Apprenticeship | 1% | — | 3% |
| Employment | 0% | — | 3% |
| No sustained destination | 1% | 3% | 6% |
| Destination unknown | 1% | 2% | 3% |
GCSE results 2025
| Measure | This school | Harrow | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Attainment 8 (average points per pupil) | 57.9 | 51.1 | 46.1 |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 60% | 54% | 45% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 80% | 70% | 65% |
| Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects | 91% | 67% | 41% |
| EBacc average point score | 5.63 | 4.72 | 4.09 |
| Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort | 16% | 27% | 28% |
| Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils | 49.5 | 39.9 | 34.9 |
| Attainment 8 — other pupils | 59.4 | 55.2 | 50.4 |
| Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2) | — | — | — |
| English as an additional language | 42% | 59% | 19% |
Progress 8 is not available for 2025 and 2026: these cohorts had no Key Stage 2 tests in 2020 and 2021, so there is no baseline. Attainment 8 shows results without taking pupils’ starting points into account.
Subjects taken at GCSE
Entries in 2025 as a share of the Year 11 cohort, and the share of entries graded 7–9 and 4–9, compared with all entries in England.
| Subject | Entries | Share of cohort | England | Grades 7–9 | England | Grades 4–9 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mathematics | 179 | 99% | 88% | 30% | 22% | 83% |
| English Language | 178 | 98% | 89% | 31% | 20% | 87% |
| Religious Studies | 174 | 96% | 31% | 51% | 32% | 87% |
| English Literature | 174 | 96% | 86% | 40% | 21% | 93% |
| Combined Science | 147 | 81% | 65% | 24% | 9% | 82% |
| History | 106 | 59% | 41% | 58% | 26% | 87% |
| French | 87 | 48% | 18% | 45% | 29% | 85% |
| Spanish | 75 | 41% | 19% | 43% | 27% | 85% |
| Geography | 73 | 40% | 41% | 23% | 25% | 71% |
| Physics | 30 | 17% | 23% | 67% | 46% | 100% |
| Biology | 30 | 17% | 23% | 63% | 45% | 100% |
| Chemistry | 30 | 17% | 23% | 77% | 47% | 100% |
| Food Preparation and Nutrition | 26 | 14% | 8% | 12% | 21% | 73% |
| Drama | 23 | 13% | 7% | 26% | 27% | 100% |
| Design and Technology | 18 | 10% | 11% | 17% | 23% | 100% |
| Art and Design | 17 | 9% | 7% | 53% | 24% | 88% |
| Classical Civilisation | 17 | 9% | 1% | 18% | 40% | 65% |
| Polish | 13 | 7% | 1% | 85% | 84% | 100% |
| Physical Education | 10 | 6% | 11% | 20% | 24% | 70% |
| Computer Science | 9 | 5% | 13% | 11% | 30% | 89% |
| Music | 7 | 4% | 5% | 43% | 33% | 86% |
| Chinese | 4 | 2% | 1% | — | 75% | — |
| Russian | 3 | 2% | 0% | — | 87% | — |
| Italian | 3 | 2% | 0% | — | 53% | — |
| Arabic | 3 | 2% | 1% | — | 47% | — |
| Portuguese | 2 | 1% | 0% | — | 50% | — |
| Urdu | 2 | 1% | 1% | — | 42% | — |
| Gujarati | 1 | 1% | 0% | — | 57% | — |
Technical awards and other Key Stage 4 qualifications
| Subject | Entries | Share of cohort | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health Studies | 15 | — | — |
Where The Sacred Heart Language College is
Other secondary schools in Harrow are shown for comparison; darker blue means more Year 11 leavers stayed in education. The last distance at which this school offered places is not yet on file — it comes from Harrow’s allocation statistics.
Other secondary schools in Harrow
Bentley Wood High School
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95% stayed in education · Attainment 8 58.5
Canons High School
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89% stayed in education · Attainment 8 39.1
Harrow High School
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91% stayed in education · Attainment 8 47.4
Hatch End High School
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94% stayed in education · Attainment 8 43.9
Nower Hill High School
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97% stayed in education · Attainment 8 59.0
Sources: Department for Education school and college performance tables 2024/2025 (Key Stage 4 and 16–18 results, subject entries, destination measures for 2023 leavers); Get Information About Schools register as at 19 September 2026; Ofsted management information as at 31 August 2026. Small numbers are suppressed by DfE and shown as “—”. How to read these figures.