- Country: UK
- Genres: Drama
- Release: 2005-01-30
- Director: Adrian Shergold
- Writers: Robert Jones , Marie Stubbs
- Language: English
- Stars: Julie Walters (I) , Inday Ba , Reece Dinsdale , Michelle Fairley , Danny Nussbaum , Tony Slattery , Hannah Yelland , Anton Lesser , Adrian Rawlins , Frances Gold
- Runtime: 94 min
- Awards: 1 win & 2 nominations
- AKA: La principale (Canada) , Ostatnie wyzwanie (Poland) , Kaaos koulussa (Finland) , O scoala cu probleme (Romania) , Ahead of the Class , Az utolsó vizsga (Hungary) , Ahead of the Class (United Kingdom) , La principale (France, French Republic)
- Plot: Drama based on real-life events. Marie Stubbs, a diminutive Glaswegian headmistress who is coming up to retirement age, takes on one last challenge: to improve the fortunes of St George's School in north west London which was facing closure after the notorious murder of its previous headmaster, Philip Lawrence, in 1995 as he was breaking up a fight between his pupils and those from a rival school.
- IMDB:tt0421570
Ahead of the Class Cast · · · ALL
Adrian Shergold
Director
Julie Walters
(I)
Marie Stubbs
Reece Dinsdale
Sean Devlin
Tony Slattery
Stuart Stiles
Michelle Fairley
Sonia Venning
Inday Ba
Trudy Gower
Anton Lesser
Graham Ranger
Danny Nussbaum
Thomas Moreira
Hannah Yelland
Tracey O'Leary
Adrian Rawlins
Tony Mackersie
Katherine Parkinson
Vicky Foley
Calum MacNab
Jason Foley
Bernard Holley
Bill Stubbs
Mercedes Grower
Alex Greer
Alan McKenna
(IV)
Simon Linder
Kate Lonergan
Maxine Horley
Heather Craney
Nadine Stubbs
Daniel Anthony
Carmichael
Rosalind March
Tara Baker
Martin Savage
Journalist
Charles Mnene
Carl
Stuart Antony
Chris Francis (uncredited)