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Secondary school in Kidderminster, Worcestershire

King Charles I School

Hill Grove House, Comberton Road, Kidderminster, Worcestershire, DY10 1XA

Ofsted Good · 2023 Sixth form
School website 01562512880

Ofsted

Goodas at 2 March 2023

Graded Good at its last graded inspection, on 2 March 2023.

Ofsted stopped awarding single-word overall grades in September 2024. This grade is 3 years old and will not be updated — the school keeps it until its next inspection, which will not produce a replacement grade.

Read the Ofsted report

GCSE results 2024/25

Attainment 8 score

44 England 47

The average grade across eight GCSEs, doubling English and maths. 50 is roughly a grade 5 average.

Grade 5+ in English & maths

36% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

57% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

4.1 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

73% England 40.8%

On Attainment 8 this school is in the lower half of state-funded secondaries in England.

Compared with the fifth of schools whose intake is middle, which is where this one sits, it is in the lower half.

Progress 8 2023/24

-0.33confidence interval -0.54 to -0.12

Taking that range into account, pupils made less progress than similar pupils nationally. DfE bands this as below average.

Progress 8 measures how far pupils moved between the end of primary and their GCSEs, which makes it far fairer than raw attainment. It is shown for 2023/24 because it could not be calculated for 2024/25: that year group would have sat their key stage 2 tests in summer 2020, when the tests were cancelled, so there is no starting point to measure from. Every school in England is affected, not just this one.

A levels 2024/25

Average grade per entry
C
Average points per entry
31.5

England average 32.3

A level students
48

Pupils

Pupils on roll
1140
Places
1304
How full
87% full — 1140 of 1304 places taken
Girls / boys
542 / 598
Overall absence
8%

secondary schools average 8.6%

Persistently absent
25%

secondary schools average 23.9% — pupils missing 10% or more of sessions

Free school meals, last 6 years
28%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
9%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
4%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
12%

England 15%

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
95%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
91%

England 85.4%

Started an apprenticeship
4%

England 3.5%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
30%
No sustained destination
4%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
187

After sixth form

Went to university
42%

England 50%

In education, work or training
88%

England 84.3%

Started an apprenticeship
6%

England 6.5%

Students in the cohort
52

Going on to university 2021/22 leavers

Went to a top third university

21% England 20.9%

The third of higher education providers whose entrants hold the highest average entry qualifications. It is the closest thing in the public data to "did they get into a competitive university", and it separates schools far more sharply than the headline progression rate does.

Went on to a degree
71%

England 65.3%

Students in the cohort
48

These follow an earlier group of leavers than the figures above, and count anyone reaching higher education within two years rather than the term after leaving, so they are not directly comparable with them.

A destination counts only if it lasted at least six months, which is why these figures lag the exam results by a year, and why the university figures track leavers from 2021/22. Small cohorts move these percentages a long way — check the cohort size before reading much into a gap.

The neighbourhood around the school

Census 2021 figures for Wyre Forest 007D, the statistical neighbourhood the school sits in — roughly 1,500 residents. It describes the area, not the pupils, who may travel in from further away.

Adults with a degree
32%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
18%

England 18.3%

Households owning their home
77%

England 62.7%

Households in social housing
1%

England 17%

Households with no car
14%

England 21.9%

Adults economically inactive
49%

England 39.9%

School details

Type
Academy converter
Phase
Secondary
Ages
Ages 11–18
Gender
Mixed
Admissions
Non-selective
Religious character
None
Sixth form
Yes
Nursery
No
Boarding
Day school
Trust
FOUR STONES GATEWAY TRUST
Headteacher
Head Teacher: Ruth Allen
Local authority
Worcestershire
Ward
Aggborough & Spennells
Constituency
Wyre Forest
URN
138032

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Nearest secondary schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Distance
Holy Trinity SchoolFree schools Good 2022 41.6 0.5 mi
Baxter CollegeAcademy converter No grade 36.6 1.6 mi
Heathfield Knoll SchoolOther independent school No grade 1.6 mi
Madinatul Uloom Al Islamiya SchoolOther independent school No grade 1.7 mi
Wolverley CofE Secondary SchoolVoluntary controlled school No grade 42.4 2.5 mi
Wribbenhall SchoolOther independent school No grade 2.9 mi
The Stourport High School and Sixth Form CollegeAcademy converter Good 2022 39.7 2.9 mi
The Bewdley SchoolFoundation school No grade 42.6 3.1 mi

Schools with a similar intake

State-funded secondary schools nationally whose share of disadvantaged pupils is closest to this school's. This is the fairest like-for-like comparison the published data supports.

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8
St Hilda's Church of England High SchoolVoluntary aided school No grade 51.8
Varndean SchoolCommunity school Good 2022 48.8
The Charter School North DulwichAcademy converter No grade 65
The Arnewood SchoolAcademy converter No grade 37.6
Abbey Grange Church of England AcademyAcademy converter No grade 55.9
Hellesdon High SchoolAcademy converter Requires improvement 2023 40.3
City of Norwich School, An Ormiston AcademyAcademy converter Good 2021 50.4
Ken Stimpson AcademyAcademy converter Requires improvement 2022 41.7

Where these figures come from

  • School details, address and pupil numbers — Get Information About Schools, the DfE register, as at 14 August 2026.
  • Exam results — DfE performance tables, 2024/25, and 2023/24 for Progress 8.
  • Free school meals, EAL and SEN — school census, 2024/25.
  • Ofsted — Ofsted management information, latest inspections as at 30 June 2026.
  • Neighbourhood figures — ONS Census 2021, lower layer super output area.

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