Cirencester Kingshill School
Secondary · Academy converter · Ages 11–16 · Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Last distance offered · Year 7 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From Gloucestershire County Council · offers on 2 March 2026
2015–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Cirencester Kingshill School is a secondary school in Cirencester, Gloucestershire for ages 11–16 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Not judged, from the inspection on 7 May 2025. Gloucestershire has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2015 to 2026 entry.
Cirencester Kingshill School catchment area: last distance offered
Parents often call this the catchment area: it's how far from the school the last child offered a place lived. It changes every year.
| Entry | Last distance offered |
|---|---|
| Year 7 2026 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| Year 7 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2023 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2022 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2021 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2020 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2019 | 🔒 With a pass |
And 4 earlier figures.
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- Every applicant for a Year 7 place in 2026 was offered one, as at 9 of the 39 other Gloucestershire secondary schools with a published Year 7 2026 outcome.
- Year 7 2026 had 141 first-choice applications for 154 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 13 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- 57 of the 261 applications (22%) for Year 7 in 2026 came from families living outside Gloucestershire, and 36 offers went to them.
- 46% got grade 5 or above in GCSE English and maths in 2024/25 (England 45%), and the Attainment 8 score was 48.2 (England 46).
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Gloucestershire schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Kingshill Lane, Cirencester, GL7 1HS
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–16
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Gloucestershire
- Pupils on roll
- 806 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 20.1% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 15.6
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Not judged Inspected 7 May 2025
Strengths
- “Cirencester Kingshill School has been through a period of rapid improvement driven by the school ethos of ‘shaping greater futures’.”
- “The school is ambitious for pupils to achieve highly.”
- “The impact of leaders’ work since the last inspection has resulted in improvements across many areas of the school.”
To improve
- “However, these strategies are not consistently used as intended, or as effectively as they might be.”
- “This results in some pupils not having the same highquality opportunities to develop their understanding as others.”
- “However, there are occasions when these strategies are not used as effectively as they might be, and this hinders pupils from learning as well as they should.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 19 June 2025 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Exam results
| Measure | School | England |
|---|---|---|
| GCSE English and maths, grade 5 or above (2024/25) | 46% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 48.2 | 46 |
Department for Education school performance data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Year 7 entry: 141 first-preference applications, 154 offers in total, 141 offers to first-preference applicants.
Department for Education, school-level applications and offers, figures on national offer day. Earlier years are in the pass.
Nearby secondary schools
Straight-line distance, in Gloucestershire.
- Cirencester Deer Park School 1.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Farmor's School 7.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Thomas Keble School 9.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Sir William Romney's School 10.4 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Balcarras School 12.1 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Stroud High School 12.5 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Henley Bank High School 12.6 mi Good Last distance published
- Marling School 12.6 mi Not judged Last distance published
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