JFS, Harrow

Ofsted's report card from its 28 April 2026 inspection grades JFS on 7 areas: 5 exceptional and 2 strong standard. Report cards replaced single-word judgements in November 2025, on a five-point scale from exceptional to urgent improvement.

Achievement - Exceptional. "Pupils, and students in the sixth form, achieve exceptionally well across the wide range of subjects they study."

Curriculum and teaching - Exceptional. "Leaders have thoughtfully designed a curriculum that is highly ambitious."

Leadership and governance - Exceptional. "School leaders are driven by a moral imperative to ensure that every pupil benefits from an education that is of the highest possible quality."

Personal development and wellbeing - Exceptional. "Leaders provide an astonishing programme of personal development that helps pupils grow into highly confident, respectful and resilient young people."

Post-16 provision - Exceptional. "The sixth form offers an extremely broad and ambitious range of subjects."

Attendance and behaviour - Strong standard. "Pupils attend school regularly and understand why regular attendance matters."

Inclusion - Strong standard. "School leaders ensure that pupils' needs and best interests are central to their decisions."

Safeguarding standards were met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "Leaders should continue to refine their systems for inclusion and attendance to achieve and sustain exceptional standards which have a transformational impact on all groups of pupils, particularly those who are disadvantaged".

Coming up: an admissions event on Thursday 12 November 2026. Check the school's website before you go, as dates can change.

In 2026, pupils at JFS averaged an Attainment 8 score of 66.4, the average grade across their best eight GCSEs. The average state school scored 51.1 in Brent and 47 across England.

82% passed English and maths at grade 5 or above, against 54% in Brent and 47% in England.

That is up from 64.6 in 2025.

Its most recent Progress 8 score, for 2024, was 1.16: pupils made well above average progress compared with pupils nationally who started secondary school at the same level. Progress 8 was not published for 2026.

Disadvantaged pupils averaged an Attainment 8 of 57.6, against 67.2 for other pupils at the school - a gap of 9.6 points.

Pupils sat GCSEs in 24 subjects; after English and maths, the most popular were Religious Studies, Combined Science and History.

For September 2026 entry, 415 families put JFS as their first choice and 774 named it as one of their preferences, for 338 places offered. That is 1.2 first choices for every place. 123 families who put it first were not offered a place there.

The nearest other state secondary schools to JFS are Claremont High School (0.6 miles, Outstanding, Attainment 8 51.8); Kingsbury High School (0.7 miles, Good, Attainment 8 48.7); St Gregory's Catholic Science College (1 mile, Outstanding, Attainment 8 56.5); and Ark Academy (1.1 miles, Outstanding, Attainment 8 56.7).

JFS's 2026 results were higher than all 4 of them.

Of the 274 pupils who finished Year 11 in 2023/24, 96% stayed in education or training for at least two terms, including 8% to a further education college and 1% to an apprenticeship.

Of the 210 students who left the sixth form in 2023/24, 69% went on to university or other higher education, 3% to apprenticeships and 9% into work. 62% went to one of the most selective third of universities.

5% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, well below the average state school (25%), according to the 2026 school census.

The nearest Underground station is Kingsbury Underground Station, about 430 metres away (roughly a 5-minute walk).

7 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Jewish Free School (->e), 290 metres away.

In August 2026, police recorded 265 crimes within a mile of the school, most often violence and sexual offences, anti-social behaviour and shoplifting. That is well below the typical figure around schools in Brent (744).

In 2024/25, JFS issued 166 suspensions, 8.1 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and no permanent exclusions.

The primary schools closest to JFS are Sinai Jewish Primary School (0.1 miles), Kingsbury Green Primary School (0.5 miles), St Robert Southwell Catholic Primary School (0.6 miles) and St Bernadette's Catholic Primary School (0.7 miles). Admission does not depend on which primary a child attends unless the school's policy names feeder schools.