Highgate is a fashionable and attractive residential area of North London, with many boutiques, restaurants, bars and pubs. It also boasts beautiful parks and woods which provide ample sporting and leisure opportunities. The school itself is located in a traditional English building, with attractive, spacious gardens where barbecues and parties are held in the summer. It is close to Highgate underground station which in turn is just 20 minutes from Central London. The school's excellent facilities include 24 fully-equipped classrooms, a library, a modern language laboratory for listening and speaking practise, a computer and video room with the latest English language learning materials and a wide range of films, free email and internet access and a student canteen serving excellent home-cooked food. Outside class, students can also enjoy an exciting social and activities programme, and make use of the school's accommodation, welfare and other services.

Students looking for a bargin, should visit London's largest open air market at Camden. All sorts of weird and wonderful items can be bought at Camden Market, from original handmade clothes to unusual foods from around the world. Highgate is also famous for its sprawling cemetery where Karl Marx is buried. One of the most impressive displays of Victorian wealth and gothic architecture in England, Highgate cemetery is listed by English heritage to be of "outstanding historical and architectural interest". Highgate is also close to Alexandra Palace, site of the first transmission of the BBC and celebrity Mecca, Hampstead and Muswell Hill. Activities on offer with Highgate School are Worldvision Song Contest, Salsa, trips to a West End musical, cooking afternoons, walks in the English countryside, football and bruges.