Highbury Grove School is a co-educational comprehensive secondary school in the London Borough of Islington. It covers the age range 11 to 18 inclusive and currently has about 1,100 pupils. It is classified as a Community School, specialising in business, enterprise studies and music . The head teacher is Tom Sherrington who took over from previous headteacher Henry Jones. Well over half of the pupils have been assessed with learning difficulties, disabilities, or literacy, dyslexia or language needs. A sizeable proportion of pupils have English as second language. Over half the pupils are from Black Caribbean, Black African and Bangladeshi groups and about one third of pupils from Turkish and other minority ethnic groups.