North Bridge House School

{{Short description|Independent school in Camden and Islington, London, England}} {{more citations needed|date=May 2019}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Use British English|date=February 2023}} {{Infobox school | name = North Bridge House School | logo = North Bridge House School.svg | logo_size = 150px | image = Northbridge House 1, May 2021.jpg | coordinates = {{coord|51.5366|-0.1469|type:edu_region:GB_dim:100|format=dec|display=inline,title}} | motto = | established = {{start date and age|1939}} | closed = | type = [[Private schools in the United Kingdom|Private school]] | religious_affiliation = | president = | head_label = | head = | r_head_label = | r_head = | chair_label = | chair = | founder = | specialist = | address = | city = [[London Borough of Camden]] [[London Borough of Islington]] | county = [[Greater London]] | country = England | postal_code = | local_authority = | ofsted = | staff = | enrolment = | gender = [[Coeducational]] | lower_age = 2 Years | upper_age = 18 | houses = Varies by school | colours = {{color box|blue}}{{color box|black}}{{color box|white}} Blue, Black, White | publication = | free_label1 = Former Pupils | free_text1 = Old Northbridgeans | free_label2 = | free_text2 = | free_label3 = | free_text3 = | website = {{URL|http://www.northbridgehouse.com/}} }}

'''North Bridge House School''' is a [[Private schools in the United Kingdom|private school]] located in [[London]] for children aged 2 to 18-year-olds. The school has four different locations for different age groups. The sites on [[Fitzjohns Avenue]] and on [[Netherhall Gardens]] are for 2{{ndash}}7 year olds. North Bridge House also has two Senior School and Sixth Form campuses: one in Hampstead for 11 to 18-year-olds, and one in [[Canonbury]], [[Islington]], for 11 to 18-year-olds.

Each of the locations is led by a Headteacher. The school is owned and operated by the [[Cognita]] group, founded in 2004.

In September 2025, North Bridge House's Regent’s Park campus on [[Gloucester Avenue]] near [[Regent's Park]] became Alleyn’s Regent’s Park, joining the Alleyn’s Schools Group and educating children from ages 4–11. The North Bridge House Hampstead campuses will follow in September 2026, transitioning to become Alleyn’s Hampstead, an all-through school for ages 2–18. <ref>{{Cite news|url=https://southwarknews.co.uk/area/dulwich/alleyns-to-open-two-new-schools-in-north-london/|title=Alleyn’s to open two new schools in north London|access-date=2026-02-26|language=en-GB}}</ref>

== History== In 1939, North Bridge House School was set up as a junior and preparatory school in St John's Wood. By the 1950s, the school had moved to 8 Netherhall Gardens, Hampstead, which today houses the Pre-Prep (Junior) School. A reorganisation of the school during the 1960s resulted in the move of older Prep School students to two Nash houses near Regent's Park. Around the same time, the nursery was opened in a Victorian villa on Fitzjohns Avenue.

Later, in 1987, the whole Prep School was moved to a former convent in Gloucester Avenue, Primrose Hill, previously occupied by the [[Japanese School of London]].<ref>"Which School?" Truman & Knightley Educational Trust, 1989. p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=cXVGAQAAIAAJ&q=%22JAPANESE+SCHOOL%22+%22North+Bridge+House%22 D-66] ([[google:"JAPANESE+SCHOOL"+"North+Bridge+House"&btnG=Search+Books&tbm=bks&tbo=1&gws rd=ssl|See search page]]). "THE JAPANESE SCHOOL I Gloucester Avenue, London, NWI Tel (01) 485 0700 Head H Fujino Type Co-educational Day 9-14 No of pupils 536 Fees On application NORTH BRIDGE HOUSE JUNIOR SCHOOL I Gloucester Avenue, London,"</ref> At the same time, the Senior School was set up, taking pupils to the age of 16.

In 2012, the [[Royal School Hampstead|Royal School, Hampstead]], was merged with North Bridge House, its former location now the Hampstead Senior School. In the same year, the North Bridge House Senior School in Canonbury was set up. It is in a 500-year-old Grade II-listed building next to [[Canonbury House and Canonbury Tower|Canonbury]] Tower in Islington.

== The school == North Bridge House School, operated by Cognita, is a mixed-ability, co-educational school. In 2024, the school reported across all subjects 66% 7-9 grades at GCSE, and 40% A-A* at A Level.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.northbridgehouse.com/senior-canonbury/academic/results-destinations/|title=Results & Destinations - North Bridge House Schools|work=North Bridge House Schools|access-date=2025-06-03|language=en-GB}}</ref>

North Bridge House includes Nursery, Pre-Prep, Prep, Senior and Sixth Form.

==Notable former pupils== {{see also|Category:People educated at North Bridge House School}} *[[Jamie Reuben]] (born 1986), British heir and financier<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/the-reuben-show-the-hottest-property-tycoons-in-london-6484966.html| title = The Reuben Show: The hottest property tycoons in London {{!}} London Evening Standard {{!}} Evening Standard| date = 10 April 2012}}</ref>

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== External links == * {{Official website|http://www.northbridgehouse.com}} * [http://goodschoolsguide.co.uk/school/north-bridge-house-senior-school.html Profile at the Good Schools Guide]

[[Category:1939 establishments in England]] [[Category:Cognita]] [[Category:Educational institutions established in 1939]] [[Category:Private co-educational schools in London]] [[Category:Private schools in the London Borough of Camden]] [[Category:Private schools in the London Borough of Islington]] [[Category:Schools in Hampstead]]