Christ's College Finchley
0.7 miles1,000 pupils · Attainment 8 56.8 (2024/25)
Applications: closes in 20 days (31 Oct 2026)
Independent · Senior · Barnet
Pardes House Grammar School
Independent school · Ages 11 to 16 · Boys · 275 pupils
At a glance
- Type
- Independent school
- Ages
- 11 to 16
- Gender
- Boys
- Pupils
- 275 census January 2024
- Capacity
- 300
- Admissions policy
- Selective
- Headteacher
- Rabbi Yitschok Lev
- Address
- Hendon Lane, Finchley, London, N3 1SA
- Borough
- Barnet
- Telephone
- 02083494222
- DfE reference (URN)
- 101385
- Website
- pardesgrammar.co.uk
Source: Department for Education, Get Information About Schools · daily extract as at 7 October 2026 · last checked 9 October 2026
Admissions
Independent schools run their own admissions. You register directly with the school, usually for a fee, and the school sets its own deadlines, assessments and offer dates, which are separate from the borough process.
Inspection
Ofsted report card, inspected 28 April 2026
Ofsted no longer gives a single overall grade. The report card grades each area on a five-point scale.
- Inclusion
- Expected standard
- Curriculum and teaching
- Expected standard
- Achievement
- Expected standard
- Attendance and behaviour
- Strong standard
- Personal development and wellbeing
- Needs attention
- Leadership and governance
- Needs attention
Safeguarding standards: Met.
Independent School Standards, checked 28 April 2026: Did not meet all standards
Ofsted graded inspection, 2 July 2024: overall effectiveness at that inspection was Requires improvement
- Quality of education
- Requires improvement
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Good
- Personal development
- Requires improvement
- Leadership and management
- Requires improvement
Source: Ofsted, Management information - non-association independent schools - as at 31 July 2026: most recent inspections data as at 31 July 2026 · most recent inspections as at 31 July 2026 · last checked 9 October 2026
Pupils and context
- Receiving SEN support
- 28.1%
- With an Education, Health and Care Plan
- 1.1%
Source: Department for Education, Compare school and college performance · 2024/25 · last checked 9 October 2026 · school census 2024/25
Nearby schools
Schools covering the same ages within about a mile, by straight-line distance (not walking or travel time).
Hasmonean High School for Boys
0.8 miles788 pupils · Attainment 8 56.5 (2024/25)
Applications: closes in 20 days (31 Oct 2026)
Bishop Douglass Catholic School
0.9 miles968 pupils · Attainment 8 52.5 (2024/25)
Applications: closes in 20 days (31 Oct 2026)
Compare with similar schools
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