Kings Cross Academy
Primary · Academy sponsor led · Ages 3–11 · London, Camden
Last distance offered · Reception 2025
0.634 miles
Published by London Borough of Camden · offers on 16 April 2025
2024 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Kings Cross Academy is a primary school in London, Camden for ages 3–11 (academy sponsor led). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 13 July 2023. Camden has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2025 entry.
Kings Cross Academy 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 |
|---|---|
| Reception 2025 | 0.634 mi |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- For Reception 2025, the last child offered a place lived 0.634 miles away, the 10th longest of the 24 Camden primary schools with a published Reception 2025 last distance.
- Reception 2026 saw 47 first-choice applications for 57 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 10 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- For Reception 2026, 36 of the 108 applications (33%) came from families living outside Camden, and 18 offers went to them.
- In 2024/25, 52% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), 3rd lowest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest primary schools in Camden.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Camden schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Plimsoll Building, 4 Wollstonecraft Street, London, N1C 4BT
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Camden
- Pupils on roll
- 399 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 49.4% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 17.2
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 13 July 2023
Strengths
- “This is a welcoming, warm and caring school.”
- “There are positive working relationships based on mutual respect between staff and pupils.”
- “Pupils trust adults to deal with any issues seriously.”
To improve
- “In a few subjects, the school has not identified the key content that pupils should learn and when.”
- “This leads to gaps in pupils’ subject-specific knowledge and skills in these subjects.”
- “Sometimes, teaching does not implement the intended curriculum consistently.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 29 September 2023 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Exam results
| Measure | School | England |
|---|---|---|
| Key stage 2 · reading, writing and maths, expected standard (2024/25) | 52% | 62% |
Department for Education school performance data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 47 first-preference applications, 57 offers in total, 47 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 primary schools
Straight-line distance, in Camden.
- Abacus Belsize Primary School 0.2 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Edith Neville Primary School 0.4 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Richard Cobden Primary School 0.4 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- St Mary and St Pancras Church of England Primary School 0.5 mi Improved significantly Last distance published
- Our Lady Roman Catholic Primary School 0.5 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Argyle Primary School 0.6 mi Good Last distance published
- Brecknock Primary School 0.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Hawley Primary School 0.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published