The school began as a girls'
grammar school the
Hornsey High School for Girls in 1887, by the Church Schools Company (now the
United Church Schools Trust). In 1915 it moved to new buildings in Weston Park. In 1968, it moved again, to newly built premises on Inderwick Road on the site of the former village of Abyssinia (later known as Hornsey Vale). It later became a girls-only comprehensive school. ==Structural problems==