Cirencester Kingshill School

Academy converter·Secondary school Cirencester, Gloucestershire·GL7 1HS
Composite score
60.2
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#1,165
National rank
#99
In South West
#19
In Gloucestershire
Top 37%
Nationally

Performance (KS4 GCSE)

Attainment 8 score
48.2
National avg ≈ 46
Progress 8 score
—
% achieving 9–5 in English & Maths
46%
% achieving 9–4 in English & Maths
69%
% EBacc grade 5+
15%
EBacc average points score
4.19

Ofsted judgements

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Quality of education
Good
Behaviour and attitudes
Good
Personal development
Good
Leadership and management
Good
Safeguarding effective?
Yes

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
141 first choices, 154 places
First choices per place
0.92
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
261
any preference, for 154 places
Applications from another council area
22%
First preferences per place, last five years▶ 0.00
00.511.5
1 per place
0.9720220.8720230.8320240.9120250.922026

Red dashed line = one first choice per place. How to read this

Every child who put Cirencester Kingshill School first was offered a place in 2026, so no distance cut-off applied: living further away did not cost a place that year.

Application figures: DfE, school level applications and offers (2026 intake).

School profile

Age range
11–16
Pupils on roll
806
Gender
Mixed
Admissions
Non-Selective

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
18.9%
Typical secondary: 27.5%
% EAL
3.3%
Typical secondary: 12.0%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
16.2%
Typical secondary: 13.7%
% with an EHC plan
6.3%
Typical secondary: 2.9%

Attendance

Overall absence
9.8%
Typical secondary: 8.9%
Persistently absent
24.6%
Typical secondary: 25.7%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
15.9
Typical secondary: 16.7
Spend per pupil
£9,164
Typical secondary: £7,815

“Typical” = the median secondary school in England. What this means

What pupils do next

The share of this school's Year 11 leavers in education, training or employment for at least two terms afterwards.

In education, training or work
95%
165 pupils tracked
Stayed in education
84%
Apprenticeship
4%
Employment
7%

DfE, KS4 destination measures.

Nearby secondary schools

Location

Cirencester Kingshill School at a glance

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire, Cirencester Kingshill School is a secondary school, classified by the DfE as a converter academy. The school educates roughly 806 pupils aged 11 to 16. The school's average Attainment 8 score in the latest GCSE results was 48.2 — broadly in line with the national average (national average: 46). Its Attainment 8 score has risen by 0.9 points year on year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it in the top 37% of secondary schools nationally.

46% of pupils achieved a grade 5 or above in both English and maths, in line with the national average of about 45%. 69% achieved a standard pass (grade 4+) in English and maths. Getting a place is straightforward: for the September 2026 intake every family who made Cirencester Kingshill School their first choice was offered one of its 154 Year 7 places. After Year 11, 95% of its leavers went on to education, an apprenticeship or work that they stayed in for at least two terms. Overall pupil absence was 9.8%. There are about 15.9 pupils per teacher. Cirencester Kingshill School does not currently have a recent graded Ofsted judgement on record (often the case for newer or recently converted schools), so it is worth asking when its next inspection is expected. This overview is generated automatically from the latest published DfE performance tables and Ofsted data; figures are rounded, and you can check the originals via the official links above.

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