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t was a case of the new – all too visibly – replacing the old, when Islington’s Highbury Grove School was rebuilt, as the new school arose on what had been open space around the old one. With the original building having to remain in use during
the construction phase, contractors, at one point, had to build within 18 inches of a working school. Once the new school was complete, the old one was demol-
ished and its site converted into play and sports areas. The result is a new school for 1,100 pupils aged 11-18, a few
metres to the west of the old one, which looks utterly different from it both inside and out. It is hard to draw a clear line between a new building and a
school’s academic performance, but the reborn Highbury Grove has seen sharply increased rates of attendance, from 92-97 per cent and has been rated as ‘Outstanding’ by the Ofsted inspectorate. The project was highly commended in the Most Sustainable
School Design category of the Building Schools for the Future (BSF) 2008 Awards.
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