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Kingsbury School - A Specialist Science and Mathematics Academy

SecondaryAges 11–16Academy

Kingsbury, B78 2LF · Warwickshire local authority

Kingsbury’s School Grade C− better than 24% of towns in England

Its letter
39%
of England’s secondaries have lower GCSE results
Getting in
95/95
first choices offered a place, 2026 (England: 84%)
How full
604 pupils
96% of its 630 places
Free school meals
26%
26 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (30)
The gist

What stands out about Kingsbury School - A Specialist Science and Mathematics Academy

  • Its own letter, C+: GCSE results better than 39% of England’s secondary schools
  • Ofsted: Good, October 2023 (shown, not graded)
  • Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026 (95 of 95)
  • Progress 8 of -0.19 in 2023/24, the last year DfE published it: pupils did about as well at GCSE as pupils nationally with the same results at 11
  • Homes in its postcode sector (B78 2) sold for a median £260,000; Kingsbury’s is £259,500

Results

DfE · GCSEs 2025/26, provisional · 118 pupils

Each bar is a group of England’s 3,224 graded secondary schools. The schools Kingsbury School - A Specialist Science and Mathematics beats are shaded green.

Attainment 8 43.3

Average grade across 8 GCSEs ×10 · higher than 34% of schools · Warwickshire avg 50

20304050607080England avg 47.3Kingsbury School - A Specialist Science and Mathematics 43.3

Grade 5+ in English and maths 43%

A strong pass · higher than 44% of schools · Warwickshire avg 52%

0%20%40%60%80%100%England avg 47.3%Kingsbury School - A Specialist Science and Mathematics 43%

Attainment 8, three years

The mark is England’s average that year

2023/24
43.2
2024/25
37.4
2025/26
43.3

Progress 8, 2023/24

−1 behind0 = national+1 ahead

-0.19: about average. How pupils did at GCSE against pupils nationally with the same results at 11. Not published since 2023/24 (no Key Stage 2 tests in 2020 and 2021).

Disadvantaged pupils, 2025/26

Attainment 8 for the 27 pupils DfE counts as disadvantaged (free school meals in the last 6 years, or looked after) and the rest, beside England’s schools

Disadvantaged
31.3England 38.6
Not disadvantaged
46.9England 50.6
Grade 4 or above in English and maths66%
England’s schools 66% · Warwickshire 69% · a standard pass

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.

Getting in

How hard is it to get a place at Kingsbury School - A Specialist Science and Mathematics Academy?

Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026.

95
families put it first for September 2026
101
places offered
100%
of first choices offered a place (England’s secondaries: 84%)
First choices and places, by year of entry
20192020202120222023202420252026
Families who put it firstPlaces offered
Red figures: first choices not offered a place

Years when some first choices missed out: 2019 (18), 2020 (1), 2022 (2), 2023 (19), 2024 (3). 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. Castle Phoenix Trust sets the admissions rules. Apply through Warwickshire council’s coordinated admissions.

Demand for secondary schools nearby, September 2026

Outline = places offered · green = families who put it first · striped = more first choices than places

1.01 per place
93% got their first choice
0.98 per place
100% got their first choice
0.94 per place
100% got their first choice
Kingsbury School - A Specialist Science and Mathematics
0.94 per place
100% got their first choice
0.90 per place
92% got their first choice
0.88 per place
100% got their first choice
0.53 per place
100% got their first choice

Kingsbury and Warwickshire, side by side

2025/26

All 37 graded secondaries in Warwickshire. 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. Kingsbury’s schools are coloured by their letter.

35445362718010%20%30%40%50%Pupils eligible for free school meals →Attainment 8 →Kingsbury School - A Specialist Science and Mathematics
ABCDElsewhere in WarwickshireKingsbury School - A Specialist Science and Mathematics
Show as a table
SchoolLetterFree school mealsAttainment 8
Stratford Girls' Grammar SchoolA+3%81.9
King Edward VI SchoolA+3%81.1
Rugby High SchoolA+9%77.1
Lawrence Sheriff SchoolA+10%75.7
Alcester Grammar SchoolA+2%75.5
North Leamington SchoolA18%56.9
Kenilworth School and Sixth FormA10%56.2
Studley High SchoolA−18%51.7
Higham Lane SchoolB+17%51
George Eliot AcademyB+35%50.9
St Thomas More Catholic Academy and Sixth Form CollegeB+21%50.9
Myton SchoolA−20%50.5
Ashlawn SchoolB+18%50.2
Southam CollegeB19%49.9
Alcester AcademyB+21%48.9
Etone CollegeB32%48.2
Stratford Upon Avon SchoolB25%47.7
The Queen Elizabeth AcademyB−31%46.6
Houlton SchoolB20%46
Ash Green SchoolB37%45.5
Henley In Arden SchoolB−19%44.5
Kineton High SchoolC+22%43.9
Rugby Free Secondary SchoolC26%43.5
Shipston High SchoolC24%43.3
Kingsbury School - A Specialist Science and Mathematics AcademyC+26%43.3
The Avon Valley School and Performing Arts CollegeC+33%42.7
Aylesford School WarwickC26%42.4
The Polesworth SchoolC20%42
The Coleshill SchoolC23%42
Campion SchoolC34%41.8
Harris Church of England AcademyC37%41.8
Nuneaton AcademyC47%41.8
Hartshill AcademyC−41%40.6
St Benedict's Catholic High SchoolC−32%40.5
Bilton SchoolC−31%39.3
Nicholas Chamberlaine SchoolD35%37.1
Trinity Catholic SchoolD40%37.1

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

631 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.

SEN support
5.1%England 14%
EHC plan
2.7%England 3.2%
English as an additional language
2.1%England 19%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
24.9%England 29.6%

Girls and boys

Girls 54%Boys 46%
Its letter

Kingsbury School - A Specialist Science and Mathematics Academy’s letter

Its own results against England’s schools, not the town’s School Grade.

Secondary: Attainment 8 and grade 5+ English and maths C+Better than 39% of 3,224 schools
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.

A+ 95+A 85–94A− 75–84B+ 65–74B 55–64B− 45–54C+ 35–44C 25–34C− 15–24D 5–14D− 0–4

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

Ofsted inspections

Shown, not graded: Ofsted is never part of a letter or the School Grade.

Graded inspection: Good, October 2023.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Kingsbury School - A Specialist Science and Mathematics Academy

For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.

Home prices in B78 2, the school’s postcode sector

Kingsbury property prices →
£260,000
median sale, 169 sales in 36 months · Kingsbury £259,500

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£100K£150K£200K£250K£300K2010201520202025B78 2Kingsbury
B78 2Kingsbury

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£343K
Semi-detached
£260K
Terraced
£205K
Flat
£160K
B78 2Kingsbury

Homes in B78 2 sell for about the same as Kingsbury’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

1 state school
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNC−C+Kingsbury School - A Specia…
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Kingsbury, B78 2LF

Kingsbury School - A Specialist Science and Mathematics Academy: common questions

Is Kingsbury School - A Specialist Science and Mathematics Academy a good school?

By its published results, below average: its GCSE results are better than 39% of England’s secondary schools (its letter is C+), with an Attainment 8 of 43.3 and 43% getting grade 5 or above in English and maths, against 47.3 and 47% for England’s schools. Ofsted: Good, October 2023.

How hard is it to get into Kingsbury School - A Specialist Science and Mathematics Academy?

For September 2026, 95 families put Kingsbury School - A Specialist Science and Mathematics Academy first and all of them were offered a place; 101 places were offered in all.

What is Kingsbury School - A Specialist Science and Mathematics Academy’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection outcome is Good (October 2023).

How much do houses cost near Kingsbury School - A Specialist Science and Mathematics Academy?

Homes in its postcode sector, B78 2, sold for a median £260,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (169 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; Kingsbury’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.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (ONS boundaries). Northern Ireland: Source: NISRA; contains Land & Property Services data and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland information, © Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Scotland: contains National Records of Scotland data, Registers of Scotland data and SEPA data, © Crown copyright / © SEPA 2025, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.