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Channing Junior School, Highgate, London N6

The Bank, Highgate, London N6 5HF

Channing Junior School, Highgate, London N6

10 reasons to choose Channing Junior School

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Channing Junior School has a Schoolsmith Score® of 82. It is one of the best independent prep schools in and around Highgate and one of the 4 best primary schools for 1 mile.

School fundamentals

Channing Junior School is an independent prep day school for girls between the ages of 4 and 11 years. It is a Unitarian school, open to all faiths and none. The school has an academically selective admissions policy. It is the junior division of Channing School, an all-through school to age 18. Channing Junior School fees are £9,438 per term (2025/26). Fees include VAT but exclude lunches.

Average class size

Channing Junior School has two classes per year and an average class size of 24 pupils.

Leavers' destinations

At the end of Year 6, most Junior School pupils move up to Channing School, without sitting an entrance exam. ISI Inspectors consider the academic achievement of pupils to be ‘Exceptional’.

The Channing Junior School curriculum

School curriculum is based on the National Curriculum and also includes PSHE, French, Spanish. The school offers each pupil between 5 and 10 different extra-curricular academic activities or hobby clubs.

More on the curriculum

There are regular educational trips for all year groups, visiting speakers and residential trips from Year 4.

Specialist teaching

Specialist teachers for sport, music, drama and languages throughout, and for art, DT, and geography from Year 3.

Sport at Channing Junior School

School offers PE and up to 10 seasonal sports. Competitive teams in major sports from Year 3.

The Arts at Channing Junior School

Art, music and drama are taught as discrete curricular subjects to all pupils. All pupils learn an instrument in class and half take extra-curricular instrument lessons from Year 3. Choir, orchestra and two instrument ensembles. Each pupil may participate in up to 10 different extra-curricular creative and performing arts clubs.

Wraparound care

Wraparound care from 7.30am to 5.50pm.

Find another school near Channing Junior School

Independent Prep Schools

Highgate Junior School & Pre-Prep (0.5 miles); Kerem School (2 miles); Norfolk House School, Muswell Hill (2.1 miles).

State Primary Schools

St Michael’s Church of England Primary School, Highgate (0.4 miles); St John’s Upper Holloway Church of England Primary School (0.8 miles); Coleridge Primary School (1 mile).

Independent Senior Schools

Channing School (0 miles); Highgate School (0.3 miles); The KIng Alfred School (2.6 miles).

State Senior Schools

St Aloysius RC College (0.3 miles); William Ellis School (1 mile); La Sainte Union Catholic Secondary School (1 mile).

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