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All-through school in Bristol, South Gloucestershire

King's Oak Academy

Brook Road, Kingswood, Bristol, Gloucestershire, BS15 4JT

School website 01179927127

Ofsted

Inspected under the current framework, which gives no overall grade, on 3 June 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

42 England 47

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

Grade 5+ in English & maths

35% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

57% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

3.5 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

22% 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

-0.28confidence interval -0.53 to -0.03

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.

Pupils

Pupils on roll
992
Places
1200
How full
83% full — 992 of 1200 places taken
Girls / boys
455 / 537
Overall absence
8%

secondary schools average 8.6%

Persistently absent
23%

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

Free school meals, last 6 years
27%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
13%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
2%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
16%

England 15%

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
90%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
82%

England 85.4%

Started an apprenticeship
4%

England 3.5%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
8%
No sustained destination
6%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
121

A destination counts only if it lasted at least six months, which is why these figures lag the exam results by a year. 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 South Gloucestershire 027A, 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
21%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
23%

England 18.3%

Households owning their home
77%

England 62.7%

Households in social housing
13%

England 17%

Households with no car
16%

England 21.9%

Adults economically inactive
40%

England 39.9%

School details

Type
Academy sponsor led
Phase
All-through
Ages
Ages 4–19
Gender
Mixed
Admissions
Non-selective
Religious character
None
Sixth form
No
Nursery
No
Boarding
Day school
Trust
CABOT LEARNING FEDERATION
Headteacher
Principal: Katherine Ogden
Local authority
South Gloucestershire
Ward
Woodstock
Constituency
Bristol North East
URN
137106

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Nearest all-through schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Distance
Digitech Studio SchoolStudio schools No grade 31.2 0.4 mi
Mangotsfield SchoolAcademy sponsor led Good 2022 41.3 1.3 mi
John Cabot AcademyAcademy sponsor led No grade 52.1 1.3 mi
Sir Bernard Lovell AcademyAcademy sponsor led No grade 44.5 1.4 mi
Bristol Brunel AcademyAcademy sponsor led Good 2023 43.6 1.9 mi
Hanham Woods AcademyAcademy sponsor led No grade 44.1 1.9 mi
Downend SchoolAcademy converter No grade 51 2.2 mi
Bristol Metropolitan AcademyAcademy sponsor led Good 2022 46.9 2.7 mi

Schools with a similar intake

State-funded all-through 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
The Thomas Lord Audley SchoolAcademy converter No grade 42.3
UTC SwindonUniversity technical college Requires improvement 2024 32.4
St Patrick's RC High SchoolVoluntary aided school No grade 53.8
Westlands SchoolAcademy converter Good 2024 40.6
Kingswinford AcademyAcademy converter Good 2024 46.3
Bruntcliffe AcademyAcademy sponsor led No grade 46
Westfield SchoolAcademy sponsor led No grade 41.5
The Purbeck SchoolAcademy converter No grade 41.9

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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