Copthall School
Barnet, NW7 2EP · Barnet local authority
Barnet’s School Grade A+ better than 96% of towns in England
What stands out about Copthall School
- Its own letter, B−: GCSE results better than 49% of England’s secondary schools
- Room to spare: 829 pupils for 1,200 places
- 47% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (more than England’s 30%)
- Ofsted: Good, November 2023 (shown, not graded)
- Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026 (60 of 60)
- Progress 8 of +0.44 in 2023/24, the last year DfE published it: pupils did better at GCSE than pupils nationally with the same results at 11
- Homes in its postcode sector (NW7 2) sold for a median £650,000; Barnet’s is £575,000
Results
DfE · GCSEs 2025/26, provisional · 142 pupilsEach bar is a group of England’s 3,224 graded secondary schools. The schools Copthall beats are shaded green.
Attainment 8 47
Average grade across 8 GCSEs ×10 · higher than 55% of schools · Barnet avg 57.9
Grade 5+ in English and maths 43%
A strong pass · higher than 44% of schools · Barnet avg 66%
Attainment 8, three years
The mark is England’s average that year
Progress 8, 2023/24
+0.44: above average. How pupils did at GCSE against pupils nationally with the same results at 11. Not published since 2023/24 (no Key Stage 2 tests in 2020 and 2021).
Disadvantaged pupils, 2025/26
Attainment 8 for the 70 pupils DfE counts as disadvantaged (free school meals in the last 6 years, or looked after) and the rest, beside England’s schools
England’s figures are of its graded mainstream state schools, each school counted once; grammar schools are included, which is why the right-hand tail is long. Small cohorts are suppressed.
How hard is it to get a place at Copthall School?
Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026.
In every year shown, every family who put it first was offered a place. The council runs the coordinated admissions; each school’s rules (siblings, distance, faith) decide who gets in. DfE doesn’t publish the furthest distance offered, so check the council’s admissions booklet for that. Copthall School sets the admissions rules. Apply through Barnet council’s coordinated admissions.
Outline = places offered · green = families who put it first · striped = more first choices than places · the 10 most in demand
100% got their first choice
Barnet and Barnet, side by side
2025/26All 28 graded secondaries in Barnet. Schools with more pupils on free school meals usually score lower, so a school above the crowd for its free school meals is doing better than its intake predicts. Barnet’s schools are coloured by their letter.
Show as a table
| School | Letter | Free school meals | Attainment 8 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Queen Elizabeth's School, Barnet | A+ | 3% | 87.1 |
| The Henrietta Barnett School | A+ | 4% | 87.1 |
| St Michael's Catholic Grammar School | A+ | 10% | 78.1 |
| Wren Academy Finchley | A+ | 15% | 65.1 |
| Menorah High School for Girls | A | 4% | 62.5 |
| The Archer Academy | A | 14% | 61.6 |
| Queen Elizabeth's Girls' School | A | 23% | 61.2 |
| Ashmole Academy | A | 14% | 61.1 |
| JCoSS | A | 4% | 61 |
| The Totteridge Academy | A | 33% | 60.9 |
| Mill Hill County High School | A | 22% | 60.8 |
| Hasmonean High School for Girls | A | 7% | 60.6 |
| Hasmonean High School for Boys | A | 9% | 60 |
| Finchley Catholic High School | A | 15% | 59.5 |
| Christ's College Finchley | A | 31% | 56.4 |
| The Compton School | A− | 35% | 55.5 |
| St Mary's and St John's CofE School | A− | 28% | 54.5 |
| Ark Pioneer Academy | A− | 39% | 53.8 |
| London Academy | A− | 44% | 52.9 |
| St James' Catholic High School | B+ | 33% | 50.4 |
| East Barnet School | B+ | 24% | 49.9 |
| St Andrew the Apostle Greek Orthodox School | B+ | 33% | 49.5 |
| Bishop Douglass School Finchley | B− | 30% | 47.3 |
| Saracens High School | B | 58% | 47.1 |
| Copthall School | B− | 47% | 47 |
| Hendon School | B− | 42% | 46.6 |
| Clarion | C | 51% | 43.4 |
| Friern Barnet School | C− | 39% | 41.5 |
Who goes here
DfE school census, January 2025861 pupils. SEN support is extra help in school for a special educational need; an EHC plan is the council’s legal plan for pupils who need more.
Copthall School’s letter
Its own results against England’s schools, not the town’s School Grade.
How school letters are worked out
Each school’s measure is compared with every graded school in England of the same phase: for primaries, the share of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (DfE’s three-year average); for secondaries, Attainment 8 and the share with grade 5 or above in English and maths, each turned into a z-score against England’s schools and averaged. The letter comes from the share of those schools it beats, in the same bands as every grade on the site. The same method gives U.S. schools their letters, against their own state.
Graded: England’s open mainstream state schools with published results (grammar schools included, which select by test). Not graded: special schools, alternative provision, nurseries, 16–19 colleges, UTCs and studio schools, Welsh schools. Ofsted plays no part.
Ofsted inspections
Shown, not graded: Ofsted is never part of a letter or the School Grade.
Ungraded inspection: School remains Good, November 2023.
Living near Copthall School
For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.
Home prices in NW7 2, the school’s postcode sector
Barnet property prices →Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025
By type, the 36 months to August 2026
Homes in NW7 2 sell for a little over Barnet’s typical price. HM Land Registry Price Paid, standard sales. Catchments aren’t published, so the postcode sector stands in for “around the school”.
Schools within 1.6 miles
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Copthall School: common questions
Is Copthall School a good school?
By its published results, about average: its GCSE results are better than 49% of England’s secondary schools (its letter is B−), with an Attainment 8 of 47 and 43% getting grade 5 or above in English and maths, against 47.3 and 47% for England’s schools. Ofsted: Good, November 2023.
How hard is it to get into Copthall School?
For September 2026, 60 families put Copthall School first and all of them were offered a place; 113 places were offered in all.
What is Copthall School’s Ofsted rating?
Its latest inspection outcome is Good (November 2023).
How much do houses cost near Copthall School?
Homes in its postcode sector, NW7 2, sold for a median £650,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (202 sales).
Sources: DfE Get Information about Schools (16 October 2026), Key Stage 2 performance tables (2023–2025, three-year average) and Key Stage 4 (2025/26, provisional); Ofsted state-funded school inspections as at 30 September 2026. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Also: DfE Key Stage 4 performance, schools data (2023/24 and 2024/25 final, 2025/26 provisional) and Key Stage 2 performance tables 2024/25 by subject; DfE school census, January 2025; DfE school-level applications and offers, September 2019 to 2026 entry; HM Land Registry Price Paid by postcode sector, 2010 to August 2026.
A school’s letter is our own summary of its published results against England’s schools of the same phase; Barnet’s School Grade is a separate grade, built from the results of the schools in and around the town against other towns. Map: © OpenStreetMap contributors.
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