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Secondary school in Gosport, Hampshire

King's Academy Bay House

Gomer Lane, Gosport, Hampshire, PO12 2QP

Sixth form
School website 02392587931

Ofsted

Inspected under the current framework, which gives no overall grade, on 7 January 2025.

Inspections since September 2024 do not give an overall grade, so there is no one-word judgement to report. The full report sets out what inspectors found.

Read the Ofsted report

GCSE results 2024/25

Attainment 8 score

43.8 England 47

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

Grade 5+ in English & maths

41% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

60% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

3.8 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

21% 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 second least disadvantaged, which is where this one sits, it is in the bottom quarter.

Progress 8 2023/24

-0.07confidence interval -0.22 to 0.08

Taking that range into account, progress was not statistically different from the national average. DfE bands this as 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
B-
Average points per entry
37

England average 32.3

A level students
116

Pupils

Pupils on roll
2036
Places
2128
How full
Nearly full — 2036 of 2128 places taken
Girls / boys
1025 / 1011
Overall absence
9%

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
24%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
6%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
3%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
16%

England 15%

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
92%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
86%

England 85.4%

Started an apprenticeship
3%

England 3.5%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
24%
No sustained destination
4%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
339

After sixth form

Went to university
46%

England 50%

In education, work or training
88%

England 84.3%

Started an apprenticeship
9%

England 6.5%

Students in the cohort
225

Going on to university 2021/22 leavers

Went to a top third university

26% 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
70%

England 65.3%

Students in the cohort
209

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 Gosport 009B, 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
26%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
17%

England 18.3%

Households owning their home
81%

England 62.7%

Households in social housing
2%

England 17%

Households with no car
13%

England 21.9%

Adults economically inactive
42%

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
KING'S GROUP ACADEMIES
Headteacher
Headteacher: Christopher Willis
Local authority
Hampshire
Ward
Alverstoke
Constituency
Gosport
URN
137791

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Nearest secondary schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Distance
King's Academy Brune ParkAcademy sponsor led Inadequate 2023 33 1.7 mi
Bridgemary SchoolAcademy sponsor led Requires improvement 2023 33.8 2.6 mi
The Portsmouth Grammar SchoolOther independent school No grade 2.8 mi
Crofton SchoolAcademy converter No grade 45.3 3 mi
Portsmouth High School GDSTOther independent school No grade 3.1 mi
Ark Charter AcademyAcademy sponsor led No grade 38.9 3.4 mi
St Edmund's Catholic SchoolVoluntary aided school Outstanding 2022 58.9 3.5 mi
Meoncross SchoolOther independent school No grade 3.6 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
Lightcliffe AcademyAcademy sponsor led No grade 38.5
King's SchoolFree schools Good 2022 53.7
Newmarket AcademyAcademy sponsor led Good 2023 45.9
The Cardinal Vaughan Memorial RC SchoolAcademy converter No grade 67.2
St Benedict's Catholic High SchoolAcademy converter Good 2024 46
Mullion SchoolAcademy converter Good 2023 43.7
St Anne's Catholic High School for GirlsVoluntary aided school Outstanding 2022 54.4
Aston AcademyAcademy converter No grade 44.2

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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