Secondary school
Sources and method
This school
URN 136327 · LAESTAB 308/4015 · Source: Get Information about Schools, DfE, OGL v3.0 (record under Visit & links).
Against London and Enfield
Track: London's middle 80% (10th to 90th percentile); L = London median; E = Enfield median, shown when 10 or more of its schools have a figure; the dot is this school.
London state schools in Close Knit with a published figure, same phase (primary or secondary) and year; the borough median only when 10 or more of its schools have one. 10th, 50th and 90th percentiles with linear interpolation (PostgreSQL percentile_cont).
Colour only where lower or higher is clearly better (absence: lower): blue = better than the London median, red = in London's worst 10%.
Money: Compared only with academies' accounts (AAR), same academic year.
Results
England rank: Key stage 4: Attainment 8 average score. Ranked among 3,280 secondaries in England, 2024/25. England's state-funded mainstream schools with a published figure that year (suppressed or missing figures are left out); equal figures share a rank; top % = rank ÷ schools × 100, rounded up.
Top % in England by year: the first and best years are labelled; the dashed line is the middle (top 50%).
Against London: London state secondaries, same year, cohort 30+, suppressed figures left out. Steps: the score out of 10 against London (10 = top 10%).
Arrows: change in London percentile points.
Pupils counted: Attainment 8 247 pupils (2024/25) · Grade 5+ English and maths 247 pupils (2024/25) · EBacc point score 247 pupils (2024/25) · Progress 8 247 pupils (2023/24) · A level points per entry 124 pupils (2024/25).
Progress 8: Not published for 2024/25: Progress 8 returns with 2026/27 results.
Getting in
Got in = first-choice families offered a place on national offer day ÷ families who put the school first. Putting a school first gives no priority: siblings and distance decide.
First-choice applications not offered a place on national offer day: 100 × (1 − first-preference offers ÷ first preferences). Applications count preferences, not children; places can still be offered from waiting lists after offer day.
Source: DfE, Primary and secondary school applications and offers.
Last distance offered: the straight line from the school to the furthest child offered a place under the distance rule. Not a catchment: it changes every year.
Enfield Council, Year 7, 2019/20–25. Enfield Council copyright; shown credited, with a link to the council's table. Measured: unknown.
Inspections
OutstandingGoodReport cardUngraded visit, no grade
Dates are the day each inspection started: Apr 2026 Report card, lowest Urgent improvement · Apr 2022 Remains Good · Jun 2016 Ungraded visit · Apr 2013 Good · Dec 2007 Outstanding. Each dot opens its Ofsted report. Report cards and 2024–25 inspections have no overall grade: the badge takes the lowest area's colour.
Report-card areas graded Exceptional or Strong standard, and Needs attention or Urgent improvement, out of the areas graded; Expected standard counts as neither. Counted from Ofsted's grades, never scored from the report text.
Source: Ofsted, state-funded schools inspections and outcomes.
Pupils
Full = pupils on roll ÷ the school's capacity (1,470 places), from Get Information about Schools.
Pupil profile and absence: DfE school census and pupil absence (Compare school and college performance). Free school meals = eligible at any time in the past 6 years; persistently absent = missed 10% or more of sessions. Withheld = suppressed by DfE.
Workforce
School workforce census, 2025/26. Staff in FTE (full-time equivalent), rounded to 1 decimal on the card. As published: teachers 101.6, leadership 10, teaching assistants 3, support staff incl. TAs 48.81, whole workforce 150.41 (160 people), 103 teachers by headcount.
Other support = support staff incl. TAs minus teaching assistants.
Per adult counts teachers, TAs and other classroom support; excludes admin staff.
- DfE: FTE pupils (January census) ÷ FTE teachers (November census)
- DfE: FTE pupils ÷ FTE teachers, teaching assistants, other school support staff and technicians; administrative, auxiliary and business staff are not counted
- Teachers in leadership posts: head, deputy and assistant heads
Financials
Academy accounts (AAR) · September 2024 to August 2025.
Published total ÷ FTE pupils in the same return, to the nearest pound; income and spend per pupil are left out when the return covers less than 12 months.
CFR (maintained schools, April–March) and AAR (academies, September–August) are different accounts and years: do not compare a maintained school with an academy.
Destinations
Students who finished the stage in the cohort year, followed through the next year: sustained = at least six months in education, an apprenticeship or employment
Source: DfE destination measures.
Why some figures are missing
Parent View: Ofsted Parent View: not published for this school (Ofsted lists only schools with 10 or more responses; fewer in the current survey and in the earlier-survey years loaded).
All sources and licences (9)
- Department for Education, Primary and secondary school applications and offers
- Department for Education, Compare school and college performance
- Enfield Council, school admissions: on-time offers
- Ofsted, state-funded schools inspections and outcomes
- Department for Education, 16-19 destination measures, academic year
- Department for Education, Academies Accounts Return
- Department for Education, Key stage 4 destination measures, academic year
- Department for Education, School workforce in England, reporting year 2025
- Department for Education, Get Information about Schools
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
How we compare schools · release rel-202610230107-census-layers-england
Kingsmead School
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Results · 2024/25
Ranked 1,121 of 3,280 secondaries in England · top 35%
A-level results
#329 of 438 London sixth forms, state and independent, 2024/25
Independent and selective (grammar) schools choose their pupils, so high results partly reflect who gets in, not only teaching. Some independent schools don't publish results.
Against London
Show exam results by year
No exams 2019/20–21
Getting in · 2026
By preference
| Choice | Applied | Offered |
|---|---|---|
| 1st | 232 | 213 |
| 2nd | 200 | 34 |
| 3rd | 157 | 21 |
- 2024/251.8 km
- 2023/241.4 km
- 2022/231.4 km
- 2021/221.5 km
- 2020/211.5 km
- 2019/201.5 km
Visit & links
Open days aren't open data: the school site lists them.
Official
Guides
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Inspections · 2007–2026
- InclusionExpected
- AchievementExpected
- Curriculum and teachingExpected
- Attendance and behaviourNeeds attention
- Leadership and governanceUrgent improvement
- Personal development and wellbeingExpected
- Post-16 provisionExpected
- SafeguardingNot met
- 2007Outstandingas predecessor
- 2013Good
- 2016Ungraded visit
- 2022Remains Good
- 2026Lowest Urgent improvement
4 points to improve
Read what Ofsted said (6)
From Ofsted report, inspected Apr 2026
Strengths
- “Pupils' welfare has not been sufficiently managed because the required pre-employment checks and vetting of new staff do not meet statutory requirements.”
- “Until recently, governors, trustees and leaders have taken too much information on trust.”
- “They have not overseen key aspects of the school's work, including some aspects of safeguarding.”
To improve
- “Governors and trustees must ensure that there is a robust process to oversee all policy and practice that keeps children safe in school.”
- “Governors and trustees must strengthen systems to evaluate leaders' actions and make sure that these are having a meaningful and measurable impact.”
- “Leaders should ensure that they accurately monitor and record the attendance of all pupils, including those being educated off site.”
Ofsted inspection report extracts, Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Pupils · 2024/25
Girls 47.7%Boys 52.3%
101% full · 1,470 places · 221 in sixth form
Parent View
Not published for this school
Workforce · 2025/26
- Classroom teachers 91.6
- Leadership 10
- Teaching assistants 3
- Other support 45.8
Teachers 101.6 FTE · Whole workforce 150.4 · 160 people
Financials · 2024/25
- +£1,480,000revenue reserve
- +£399,000in-year balance
Grants £8,493 · self-generated £733 · premises £471 per pupil
Single-academy trust: KINGSMEAD SCHOOL
Destinations · 2023/24 leavers
After Year 11
247 students, followed through 2024/25 · Provisional
After sixth form (16–18)
127 students, followed through 2024/25 · Provisional