Highfields School Overview

Highfields School is a secondary & 6th form school located in Matlock and reports to the local authority of Derbyshire.

Highfields School is a mixed gender school that caters to students aged from 11 to 18 years old and it has no religious affiliations

Currently the school is undersubscribed as it has an official capacity of 1394 students but currently only enrols 1321 pupils across all class years. This can generally mean that all applications to this school stand a much stronger chance of being accepted.

Highfields School students range across many different ethnicities with White British being the predominant ethnicity, accounting for 93.0% of all current students. English as a 1st language accounts for 2.8% of students at the school.

23.5% of all students at the school qualify for free school meals and 0% of Highfields School pupils are classed as SEN students who have a range of special educational needs.

Student Ethnicities