Education
There are 17 primary schools in the district.
There are six secondary schools. Three are voluntary aided schools, all Catholic: Bishop Douglass Catholic, Finchley Catholic High and St Michael's Catholic Grammar. Two are community schools: Christ's College Finchley and The Compton. One is an academy, the 'Wren Academy', named after Sir Christopher Wren, and sponsored by the Church of England.
There is also a special school, Oak Lodge Special.
Woodhouse College in North Finchley, on the site of the old Woodhouse Grammar School, is one of two colleges in the Borough.
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