Kings Cross Academy
Camden, N1C 4BT · Camden local authority
Camden’s School Grade A better than 86% of towns in England
What stands out about Kings Cross Academy
- Its own letter, C: Key Stage 2 results better than 26% of England’s primary schools
- 54% meet the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 8 points below England’s schools
- 50% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (more than England’s 25%)
- Ofsted: Good, July 2023 (shown, not graded)
- Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026 (47 of 47)
- Homes in its postcode sector (N1C 4) sold for a median £1,150,000; Camden’s is £780,000
Results
DfE · Key Stage 2Reading, writing and maths 54%
Met the expected standard, DfE’s 3-year average 2023–2025 · higher than 26% of England’s 14,979 graded primaries · Camden avg 74%
Each subject, 2025
Met the expected standard; the mark is England’s schools · average scaled score: reading 106, maths 102 (100 = the expected standard)
Disadvantaged pupils, 2025
Met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths: the 31 disadvantaged pupils and the rest, beside England’s schools
England’s figures are of its graded mainstream state schools, each school counted once; grammar schools are included, which is why the right-hand tail is long. Small cohorts are suppressed.
How hard is it to get a place at Kings Cross Academy?
Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026.
Years when some first choices missed out: 2019 (24), 2020 (29), 2021 (13), 2022 (5), 2023 (7), 2025 (5). The council runs the coordinated admissions; each school’s rules (siblings, distance, faith) decide who gets in. DfE doesn’t publish the furthest distance offered, so check the council’s admissions booklet for that. King'S Cross Academy Trust sets the admissions rules. Apply through Camden council’s coordinated admissions.
Outline = places offered · green = families who put it first · striped = more first choices than places · the 10 most in demand
100% got their first choice
Camden and Camden, side by side
2023–2025All 38 graded primaries in Camden. Schools with more pupils on free school meals usually score lower, so a school above the crowd for its free school meals is doing better than its intake predicts. Camden’s schools are coloured by their letter.
Show as a table
| School | Letter | Free school meals | KS2 expected standard |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Luke's Church of England School | A+ | 31% | 95% |
| Hampstead Parochial Church of England Primary School | A+ | 7% | 91% |
| Christ Church Primary School, Hampstead | A+ | 1% | 90% |
| Abacus Belsize Primary School | A+ | 16% | 89% |
| Christopher Hatton Primary School | A+ | 42% | 87% |
| Kingsgate Primary School | A+ | 60% | 87% |
| Eleanor Palmer Primary School | A+ | 22% | 86% |
| Holy Trinity CofE Primary School, NW3 | A+ | 41% | 85% |
| Emmanuel Church of England Primary School | A | 16% | 82% |
| St Eugene de Mazenod Roman Catholic Primary School | A | 43% | 81% |
| Torriano Primary School | A | 40% | 80% |
| St Paul's Church of England Primary School | A | 39% | 80% |
| St Mary's Kilburn Church of England Primary School | A | 67% | 78% |
| Argyle Primary School | A | 69% | 77% |
| New End Primary School | A | 21% | 77% |
| Holy Trinity and Saint Silas CofE Primary School, NW1 | A | 39% | 77% |
| Richard Cobden Primary School | A | 59% | 76% |
| Edith Neville Primary School | A− | 53% | 75% |
| Rosary Catholic Primary School | A− | 47% | 75% |
| St George the Martyr Church of England Primary School | A− | 42% | 75% |
| St Alban's Church of England Primary School | A− | 65% | 74% |
| St Mary and St Pancras Church of England Primary School | A− | 72% | 74% |
| Rhyl Community Primary School | A− | 67% | 72% |
| Gospel Oak Primary School | A− | 38% | 71% |
| Fitzjohn's Primary School | B+ | 13% | 70% |
| St Patrick's Catholic Primary School | B+ | 68% | 69% |
| West Hampstead Primary School | B | 46% | 67% |
| St Josephs Catholic Primary School | B | 54% | 67% |
| Our Lady Roman Catholic Primary School | B | 65% | 67% |
| Fleet Primary School | B | 55% | 66% |
| Kentish Town Church of England Primary School | B | 43% | 66% |
| Primrose Hill School | B | 38% | 65% |
| Christ Church School | B | 54% | 65% |
| Brookfield Primary School | B− | 38% | 64% |
| Brecknock Primary School | C | 70% | 57% |
| Hawley Primary School | C | 54% | 54% |
| Kings Cross Academy | C | 50% | 54% |
| Netley Primary School | C− | 63% | 53% |
Who goes here
DfE school census, January 2025388 pupils. SEN support is extra help in school for a special educational need; an EHC plan is the council’s legal plan for pupils who need more.
Girls and boys
Kings Cross Academy’s letter
Its own results against England’s schools, not the town’s School Grade.
How school letters are worked out
Each school’s measure is compared with every graded school in England of the same phase: for primaries, the share of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (DfE’s three-year average); for secondaries, Attainment 8 and the share with grade 5 or above in English and maths, each turned into a z-score against England’s schools and averaged. The letter comes from the share of those schools it beats, in the same bands as every grade on the site. The same method gives U.S. schools their letters, against their own state.
Graded: England’s open mainstream state schools with published results (grammar schools included, which select by test). Not graded: special schools, alternative provision, nurseries, 16–19 colleges, UTCs and studio schools, Welsh schools. Ofsted plays no part.
Ofsted inspections
Shown, not graded: Ofsted is never part of a letter or the School Grade.
Ungraded inspection: School remains Good, July 2023.
Living near Kings Cross Academy
For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.
Home prices in N1C 4, the school’s postcode sector
Camden property prices →Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025
By type, the 36 months to August 2026
Homes in N1C 4 sell for well over Camden’s typical price. HM Land Registry Price Paid, standard sales. Catchments aren’t published, so the postcode sector stands in for “around the school”.
Schools within 1.6 miles
57 state schoolsLocation
Directions ↗Camden, N1C 4BT
Kings Cross Academy: common questions
Is Kings Cross Academy a good school?
By its published results, below average: its Key Stage 2 results are better than 26% of England’s primary schools (its letter is C), with 54% of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, against 62% for England’s schools. Ofsted: Good, July 2023.
How hard is it to get into Kings Cross Academy?
For September 2026, 47 families put Kings Cross Academy first and all of them were offered a place; 57 places were offered in all.
What is Kings Cross Academy’s Ofsted rating?
Its latest inspection outcome is Good (July 2023).
How much do houses cost near Kings Cross Academy?
Homes in its postcode sector, N1C 4, sold for a median £1,150,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (161 sales).
Sources: DfE Get Information about Schools (16 October 2026), Key Stage 2 performance tables (2023–2025, three-year average) and Key Stage 4 (2025/26, provisional); Ofsted state-funded school inspections as at 30 September 2026. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Also: DfE Key Stage 4 performance, schools data (2023/24 and 2024/25 final, 2025/26 provisional) and Key Stage 2 performance tables 2024/25 by subject; DfE school census, January 2025; DfE school-level applications and offers, September 2019 to 2026 entry; HM Land Registry Price Paid by postcode sector, 2010 to August 2026.
A school’s letter is our own summary of its published results against England’s schools of the same phase; Camden’s School Grade is a separate grade, built from the results of the schools in and around the town against other towns. Map: © OpenStreetMap contributors.
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