King's Academy Binfield
All-through · Free schools · Ages 3–19 · Bracknell, Bracknell Forest
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.516 miles
Published by Bracknell Forest Council · offers on 16 April 2026
Year 7 2026: 1.28 mi
2025 figure 🔒
King's Academy Binfield is an all-through school in Bracknell, Bracknell Forest for ages 3–19 (free schools). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 1 November 2022. Bracknell Forest has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception and Year 7 2025 to 2026 entry.
King's Academy Binfield 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 2026 | 0.516 mi |
| Year 7 2026 | 1.28 mi |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- The last child offered a Reception place in 2026 lived 0.516 miles away, further than in 2025; for Year 7 in 2026 the figure was 1.28 miles.
- Reception 2026: 77 first-choice applications for 60 offers; 60 offers went to first-choice families, and 17 first-choice families (22%) were not offered a place.
- At A level in 2024/25, the average grade was C (England B-), and progress from GCSE to A level was below average.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Bracknell Forest schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- St. Georges Park, Binfield, Bracknell, RG42 4FS
- Type
- Free schools
- Phase
- All-through
- Ages
- 3–19
- Council
- Bracknell Forest
- Pupils on roll
- 1,500 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 9.8% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 16.8
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 1 November 2022
Strengths
- “Pupils are proud to attend this school.”
- “They achieve well academically and socially.”
- “From the youngest children in Nursery to the oldest studying for their GCSEs, pupils enjoy learning and take it very seriously.”
To improve
- “In some subjects, leaders are still fine-tuning their planning.”
- “This includes knowing precisely how new learning introduced in early years feeds into the different subjects at key stage 1.”
- “However, there is not currently an effective strategic approach to teaching the weakest pupils of secondary age to read.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 9 December 2022 (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) | 49% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 48.6 | 46 |
| A level average grade (2024/25) | C | B- |
Department for Education school performance data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 77 first-preference applications, 60 offers in total, 60 offers to first-preference applicants.
- 2026 Year 7 entry: 169 first-preference applications, 164 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 special, independent and other schools
Straight-line distance, in Bracknell Forest.
- Newbold School 0.3 mi No Ofsted grade
- Cressex Lodge School 0.5 mi No Ofsted grade
- Kennel Lane School 1.0 mi No Ofsted grade
- Hawthorn Academy 2.4 mi No Ofsted grade
- Lambrook School 2.9 mi No Ofsted grade
- Heathfield School 3.0 mi No Ofsted grade
- LVS Ascot 3.3 mi No Ofsted grade
- Wellington College 4.3 mi No Ofsted grade