Kingsbury School - A Specialist Science and Mathematics Academy
Secondary · Academy sponsor led · Ages 11–16 · Kingsbury, Warwickshire
Last distance offered · Year 7 2026
8.836 miles
Published by Warwickshire County Council · offers on 2 March 2026
2017–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Kingsbury School - A Specialist Science and Mathematics Academy is a secondary school in Kingsbury, Warwickshire for ages 11–16 (academy sponsor led). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 3 October 2023. Warwickshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2017 to 2026 entry.
Kingsbury School - A Specialist Science and Mathematics 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 |
|---|---|
| Year 7 2026 | 8.836 mi |
| 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 2017 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- Year 7 2026: the last child offered a place lived 8.836 miles away, the 7th longest of 32 Warwickshire secondary schools with a published last distance; middle figure 4.61 miles.
- The 2026 Year 7 last distance was further out than in 2025 and 2017, and the 2026 figure was the longest of the 5 years with a published distance.
- Year 7 2026 had 95 first-choice applications for 101 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 6 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 27% got grade 5 or above in GCSE English and maths (England 45%), and the Attainment 8 score was 37.4 (England 46).
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Warwickshire schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Tamworth Road, Kingsbury, Kingsbury School, Kingsbury, B78 2LF
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–16
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Warwickshire
- Pupils on roll
- 604 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 26% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 16.1
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 3 October 2023
Strengths
- “Kingsbury School staff and the majority of pupils share the same high ambitions which have been raised rapidly.”
- “Pupils understand and follow the school’s aims to ‘enthuse, aspire and achieve’.”
- “Pupils speak positively about the support they receive.”
To improve
- “During unstructured times, such as breaks and lunch, some pupils do not behave sensibly.”
- “These improvements have not yet led to consistently improving outcomes by the end of key stage 4.”
- “Absence from school is preventing a significant number of pupils from achieving their potential.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 16 November 2023 (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) | 27% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 37.4 | 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: 95 first-preference applications, 101 offers in total, 95 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 Warwickshire.
- The Polesworth School 4.0 mi Good Last distance published
- The Coleshill School 5.7 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- The Queen Elizabeth Academy 6.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Hartshill Academy 7.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Nuneaton Academy 8.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Thomas More Catholic Academy and Sixth Form College 9.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Higham Lane North Academy 9.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Higham Lane School 9.8 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
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