Gladesmore Community School

Gladesmore is a mixed, comprehensive secondary school situated in North London. It is a community state school which will provide 1,215 places for secondary students aged 11-16, but is consistently oversubscribed.

The school opened in 1911 now benefits from excellent buildings and facilities.

Principal

Mr Goldwater Ojokor

Values and Vision

The school's values are represented by the acronym REACH: respect, enthusiasm, attitude, cooperation and hard work. Its goals are to improve outcomes and quality of learning for pupils; to provide effective leadership and management; to safeguard the welfare of pupils; and to promote good behaviour and personal development. Gladesmore's aspirations are high, and successive, Ofsted reports have shown that students make great progress even from the lowest of starting points and rate it as exceptional overall.

The school is one of very few to have received the Queen’s Award for Service and the Princess Diana Award for anti-bullying. It has actively led a number of  initiatives, including Value Life, which tackled gun and knife crime, Everybody Dreams, and a song for London which has been enormously popular making a positive impact in the community.

Ofsted

“Under the exceptional and enthusiastic leadership of the headmaster, students and staff grow rapidly as part of the Gladesmore family. Governors and all leaders support students to achieve outstanding levels of success in all aspects of their lives. Students are keen to excel. The very positive relationships that have been fostered within the school, combined with the excellent attitudes to learning, enable students to make outstanding progress.”

View Gladesmore Community School’s latest Ofsted report