{"id":46,"date":"2014-08-26T14:38:48","date_gmt":"2014-08-26T14:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.schoolsplus.co.ukhendonschool\/?page_id=46"},"modified":"2021-08-10T12:43:31","modified_gmt":"2021-08-10T12:43:31","slug":"school-description","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.schoolsplus.co.uk\/hendonschool\/about-us\/school-description\/","title":{"rendered":"About Hendon School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.schoolsplus.co.uk\/hendonschool\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2014\/08\/Hendon-School.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-274\" src=\"http:\/\/www.schoolsplus.co.uk\/hendonschool\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2014\/08\/Hendon-School-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"Hendon School\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.schoolsplus.co.uk\/hendonschool\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2014\/08\/Hendon-School-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.schoolsplus.co.uk\/hendonschool\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2014\/08\/Hendon-School.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\">Hendon School is a mixed <\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\">secondary school <\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\">with <\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\">academy status <\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\">since November 2011 previously a comprehensive) in the London Borough of <\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chipping_Barnet\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\">Barnet<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\">. It specialises in languages, offering <\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\">Japanese <\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\">amongst others to its students.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\">Hendon School is a large, mixed comprehensive school with 1,296 pupils on roll, including approximately 240 sixth form students. The school is situated just off the A502 and. It serves an area that is generally more affluent than average but has some pocket <\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/A406_road\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\">North Circular Road<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\">s of deprivation, as interpreted in comparison to national averages according to <\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ofsted\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\">Ofsted<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\">.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\">The student population is culturally diverse, multi-faith and multi-lingual, with more than half of students speaking languages other than English as their first language. The proportion of students eligible for f<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\">ree school meals <\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\">is well above the national average. The school specialises in languages, and has specialist educational facilities for deaf and <\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\">autistic <\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\">students. The school has been over-subscribed for the past four years and was designated an <\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\"><i><b>Outstanding\u00a0<\/b><\/i><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Cambria, serif;\">school by Ofsted in November 2011.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>To find out more about Hendon School, please feel free to visit their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hendonschool.co.uk\/\">homepage found here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learn more about Schools Plus working with Hendon School<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223,"parent":8,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":{"0":"post-46","1":"page","2":"type-page","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schoolsplus.co.uk\/hendonschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schoolsplus.co.uk\/hendonschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schoolsplus.co.uk\/hendonschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schoolsplus.co.uk\/hendonschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schoolsplus.co.uk\/hendonschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.schoolsplus.co.uk\/hendonschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/46\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":585,"href":"https:\/\/www.schoolsplus.co.uk\/hendonschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/46\/revisions\/585"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schoolsplus.co.uk\/hendonschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schoolsplus.co.uk\/hendonschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schoolsplus.co.uk\/hendonschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}