Welcome

The Harris Federation is an education charity led and run by teachers. We opened our first school in 1991 and now run 50 primary and secondary academies in London and Essex, and train thousands of teachers per year from the Harris Federation and beyond.

The School-Led Network

Practical, evidence-based leadership development by today’s school leaders, for tomorrow’s school leaders.

Find Out More

Harris Highlights View All News

Harris City Academy Crystal Palace students supported by will.i.am to learn robotics

Musician, tech entrepreneur and philanthropist will.i.am has made a generous donation to Harris City Academy Crystal Palace so that its students can study robotics. Will.i.am visited the school for his thought-provoking documentary ‘The Black Print&rsqu...

Read Full Article

Education Secretary and Children’s Commissioner visit Harris Westminster Sixth Form

This week, staff and students at

Read Full Article

Harris Federation class of 2021 celebrates success

We are immensely proud of a fantastic set of A Level results and outcomes this year. Overall, 80% of our sixth formers are heading off to university, with a sizable group of students having also won places on competitive apprenticeship programmes. Despite having lost a quarter of face-to-face teaching time to national lockdowns, the Harris Federation’s Class of 2021...

Read Full Article

Congratulations to all our students taking up apprenticeships

At least 36 Harris students are set to take up apprenticeships, with many more in the pipeline. The majority of these are degree apprenticeships which means that the students will achieve a full bachelor’s degree as part of their apprenticeship or include a master’s programme. The apprenticeships include Bank of America, Bloomberg, KPMG, Schroeders and UB...

Read Full Article

View All News

Happy & Successful Education

We have built our reputation on a family of academies that, across the board, are setting standards of excellence and fulfilling high expectations.

Our Academies

Our Performance

Our Role

More than the sum of our parts

We are not just individual students, teachers, leaders, support staff and partners giving their best each and every day. Together, we are more. Together, we are making a difference.

Our Role

Training & Careers

We provide world-class training and development for teachers and leaders.

Harris Initiatives

Find out more about some of the initiatives that are key to a Harris Federation education or career for our pupils and staff.

The Week in Pictures Follow us on Flickr

View our week in pictures

It’s not right and it’s not good enough to accept things as they are.

Our job and our mission, our ambition, is to do so much more.

Sir Dan Moynihan, Chief Executive

Welcome from Sir Dan Moynihan

The Harris Group

Harris Federation

Harris Careers

Harris Initial Teacher Education

Harris Leadership College

Harris Experience

Careers Education

Harris Sixth Form

Harris Home Learning Hub