Ashmole Academy (formerly Ashmole School) is a secondary school with academy status in Southgate, England in the London Borough of Barnet. Under the direction of the headteacher Balbinder Dhinsa, around 1,800 pupils (550 in the Sixth form) are educated in ages 11–18.

Pupils come from a wide range of minority ethnic heritages and a greater than usual number of pupils speak English as an additional language.

The school, named after Elias Ashmole,^[3] was founded in 1958 as the successor of Russell Lane Secondary Modern Boys' School which had changed its name to Ashmole School in about 1949,^[4] had Southaw School merged into it in 1971,^[3] and became a foundation school in 1999. It achieved specialist status in Science in 2002, and added the second specialism, Music, in 2006. The school moved into a new building on the same site in September 2004 costing £14m. The existing administration block was refurbished and opened as the performing arts centre in June 2005. This was funded by the sale of 38 acres (15 ha) of school grounds for redevelopment as housing.^[5]

On 1 October 2010, it became one of the first schools in North London (second in Barnet – after QE Boys) to convert to an Academy after an invitation from the Coalition Government.^[6]

Ofsted gave an overall rating of the school as Grade 1 Outstanding, the highest available assessment for a UK school, following their 2007 inspection.^[7] As of 2024^[update], the school's most recent inspection was in 2021, with a judgement of Good.^[8]

This article's list of alumni may not follow Wikipedia's verifiability policy. (June 2023)

• Julian Kelly, footballer^[9]
• Dan Gillespie Sells^[10]
• Rachel Stevens, singer, businesswoman, model and actress^[11]
• Amy Winehouse^[12]
• Andrew Symeou
• Megan Prescott, actress and bodybuilder^{[citation needed]}
• Daniel Peacock
• Phoebe Thomas
• Dee Murray
• Graham King
• Gilbert Gabriel
• Steve Sidwell