Finchley Catholic High School

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Finchley Catholic High School is a boys' secondary school with a coeducational sixth form in North Finchley, part of the London Borough of Barnet.AdmissionsFinchley Catholic High School, as its name declares, is a faith school; it is also – up to the end of Year 11 – exclusively for boys.It is a school for boys aged 11–18, with a coeducational Sixth Form. The sixth form is increasing in size, and 25% of the intake is offered to girls since the 2007–08 academic year.LocationThe school is situated to the west of Finchley's High Road (A1000), and immediately to the east of that stretch of the Northern Line which constitutes the school's western boundary. Lying adjacent to the postcode boundaries of Whetstone (N20) and Woodside Park (N12), it is roughly halfway between Woodside Park tube station and Totteridge and Whetstone tube station.HistoryFinchley Catholic Grammar School was founded in 1926 by the redoubtable Canon Clement Henry Parsons, parish priest of St. Alban's Catholic Church, Nether Street, North Finchley. He founded the Challoner School ; as well as St. Alban's Catholic Preparatory School as a feeder primary for the Grammar and Challoner schools. 1971 saw its two institutional forebears, Finchley Catholic Grammar School and the Challoner School, merge to become Finchley Catholic High School) comes from the collect of the Mass of Pentecost. The school newsletter, "The Albanian", is named after the school's patron saint, St Alban, Britain's protomartyr. It is sent out six times a year to all parents, governors and other key members of the school community.