La Sainte Union Catholic Secondary School

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La Sainte Union Catholic Secondary School is a girls' Roman Catholic comprehensive secondary school based in Camden in North London.

Formerly a grant-maintained school, it is now a voluntary-aided school which teaches girls aged 11–19. It is a Specialist Science College. It was awarded Beacon school status in 1999. Sister Teresa Finn is the current headteacher.

The school is a part of the La Swap Sixth Form consortium, together with William Ellis School, Acland Burghley School and Parliament Hill School.

The school is named after the order of sisters that founded and continues to run the school, the Sisters of La Sainte Union des Sacrés-Coeurs. This teaching order was founded in 1826 by Father Jean-Baptiste Debrabant, a Belgian priest who felt that the future of the Catholic church lay in the hands of the young women who would eventually bring up future generations of the faithful, declaring that "a Christian-based education offers sure hope for the future of religion and society".^[1]

The school occupies a site on the Highgate Road/Croftdown Road, opposite Parliament Hill Fields. It was originally a small private boarding school, becoming a grammar school in the 1960s, and then eventually a comprehensive in the 1970s. During the 1990s the school had grant-maintained status. It was one of the first schools in London to be named as a Beacon school in a government scheme designed to recognize outstanding achievement in inner-city schools. The school has recently also been awarded Specialist_School - Science with Mathematics status.