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Secondary school in Coventry

President Kennedy School Academy

Rookery Lane, Coventry, West Midlands, CV6 4GL

Ofsted Outstanding · 2023 Sixth form Full
School website 02476661416
Ofsted Outstanding December 2023
Attainment 8 43.2 in the lower half nationally
Chance of a place 59% of first choices offered
Local deprivation 5/10 mid-range

Ofsted

Outstandingas at 6 December 2023

Graded Outstanding at its last graded inspection, on 6 December 2023.

Ofsted stopped awarding single-word overall grades in September 2024. This grade is 2 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

Current published outcome
Outstanding
Last overall grade in this dataset
Outstanding
Days since inspection
1,031 days
Framework era
Historic overall-grade framework (ended September 2024)

These four fields describe the latest published inspection on this record. The dataset does not keep a previous inspection row, so a school inspected under the current framework will usually have no overall grade to show as “prior”.

GCSE results 2024/25

Attainment 8 score

43.2 England 47

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

Grade 5+ in English & maths

38% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

59% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

3.7 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

19% 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 most disadvantaged, which is where this one sits, it is in the better-performing half.

Progress 8 2023/24

0.27confidence interval 0.11 to 0.44

Taking that range into account, pupils made more progress than similar pupils nationally. DfE bands this as above 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
35.3

England average 32.3

A level students
96

Getting a place 2026/27 entry

Oversubscribed. Of the 471 families who named this school as their first choice, 59% were offered a place.

Places offered
297

for entry into Year 7

Named it first choice
471
First choices per place
1.59

England average 1.00

First choices offered a place
59%

England 88.5%

First preferences per place are up 15% on three years ago.

These are offers made on national offer day for 2026/27 entry, from the local authority's co-ordinated admissions round. They exclude later movement — waiting lists, appeals and in-year admissions — so a school shown as oversubscribed may still have places by September.

Oversubscription measures popularity, not quality, and the two are not the same thing: a school can be heavily oversubscribed because of its intake, its faith designation or simply because the nearest alternative is further away. We do not publish catchment maps, because catchments are not published: each admissions authority applies its own criteria afresh every year, and the distance that got a child in last year is not a boundary. Read the school's own admissions arrangements for the rules that will actually apply.

Pupils

Pupils on roll
1799
Places
1570
How full
Full — 1799 pupils against 1570 places
Girls / boys
894 / 905
Overall absence
9%

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
35%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
34%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
3%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
18%

England 15%

School funding 2025-26 financial year

Not found for this URN in the 2025-26 release.

Evidence found
Not found for this URN in the 2025-26 release; this is not represented as £0.
Source coverage
DfE mainstream-school allocations for running costs for pupils aged 5-16, importer snapshot 23 August 2026.
What this means
The official mainstream allocation release does not provide a publishable row for this establishment.
What this does not mean
The school received no public funding or has no budget; other establishment types and funding streams use different publications.

Allocation is not expenditure. DfE says this release combines the schools block with several other revenue grants and excludes capital spending. Funding is shown for context and is never used in School Facts ordering, peer groups or quality claims. Source, licence and coverage.

Roads and getting there

Road casualties within 500m

Child pedestrian casualties
1

England average 1.6 — pedestrians under 16, over five years

All reported collisions
5

England average 24.2 over five years

Of those, serious or fatal
0

Public transport

Bus stops within 500m
6

England average 11.9

Nearest station
Coventry Arena Rail Station

1.8 km away — railway station

Every collision reported to the police within 500m of the school over the five years to 2024, from the Department for Transport's road casualty statistics. A high count usually says the school sits on or near a busy road, not that the school is unsafe — counts rise with traffic and with how built up an area is, and a rural school on a fast road may have fewer collisions but a worse one. Distances are straight-line from the school's recorded position.

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
89%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
85%

England 85.4%

Started an apprenticeship
2%

England 3.5%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
45%
No sustained destination
9%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
269

After sixth form

Went to university
72%

England 50%

In education, work or training
90%

England 84.4%

Started an apprenticeship
3%

England 6.5%

Students in the cohort
135

Going on to university 2021/22 leavers

Went to a top third university

20% 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
77%

England 65.3%

Students in the cohort
149

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 area around the school

5/10 Deprivation decile

Among around the middle for England.

4/10 Child poverty decile

Among the more deprived half of England for children in low-income families.

Indices of Deprivation 2019, for the small area the school stands in. 1 means the most deprived tenth of England, 10 the least. The second measure counts only children living in low-income families, which is the one that describes the intake a school is likely to draw on.

What homes cost nearby

Median sale price
£207,250

postcode sector CV6 4 · 542 sales

Typical range
£166,000 to £265,012

middle half of sales

Detached
£346,750
Semi-detached
£240,000
Terraced
£190,000
Flat
£152,000

Homes around this school are cheaper than most of England.

Every residential sale registered in this postcode sector since January 2024, from HM Land Registry. A sector covers roughly 2,500 addresses. England's median over the same period was £293,000.

Who lives there

Adults with a degree
25%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
22%

England 18.3%

In professional or managerial work
9%

England 13.4%

Households deprived in 2+ ways
19%

England 17.8%

Residents in very good health
48%

England 48.4%

Housing

Owned by the occupier
65%

England 62.7%

Social housing
2%

England 17%

Privately rented
32%

England 19.2%

Detached homes
44%

England 38.2%

Four or more bedrooms
16%

England 22.5%

No car
16%

England 21.9%

Census 2021, for Coventry 002B and the wider neighbourhood around it. These figures describe the area, not the pupils — children may travel in from much further away, and for selective, faith and independent schools they usually do.

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
Headteacher
Headteacher: Tyson Lane
Opened as this establishment
1 October 2013
Register status
Open
Local authority
Coventry
Ward
Holbrook
Constituency
Coventry North West
URN
140248

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Official DfE record
Open the register entry

The source record for this establishment and URN.

The URN identifies this registered establishment. If a school converts or is replaced, DfE may issue a new URN; this page does not stitch different establishments together by a similar name.

Admissions history

The official school-level admissions releases contain up to 13 national-offer-day observations, from 2014/15 to 2026/27. The chart shows first choices per place; the table keeps the underlying counts.

Year 7

1.80 2014/15: 0.79 first choices per place2015/16: 1.10 first choices per place2016/17: 1.17 first choices per place2017/18: 1.27 first choices per place2018/19: 1.59 first choices per place2019/20: 1.46 first choices per place2020/21: 1.46 first choices per place2021/22: 1.62 first choices per place2022/23: 1.29 first choices per place2023/24: 1.38 first choices per place2024/25: 1.38 first choices per place2025/26: 1.39 first choices per place2026/27: 1.59 first choices per place2014201620182020202220242026
All 13 annual observations
Entry yearPlacesFirst choicesPer placeFirst choices offered
2014/15 256 201 0.79 98%
2015/16 271 297 1.10 82%
2016/17 269 316 1.17 79%
2017/18 265 337 1.27 75%
2018/19 271 430 1.59 60%
2019/20 299 436 1.46 66%
2020/21 327 479 1.46 66%
2021/22 299 483 1.62 60%
2022/23 300 386 1.29 74%
2023/24 296 408 1.38 68%
2024/25 300 415 1.38 66%
2025/26 300 418 1.39 67%
2026/27 297 471 1.59 59%

These are annual observations, not forecasts. They exclude waiting lists, appeals and in-year admissions. Each series follows this exact URN only, so academy conversions and missing releases remain visible as gaps rather than being joined by name.

Nearest secondary schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Progress 8DistanceCompare
OneSchool Global UKOther independent school No overall grade — — 0.3 mi
Cardinal Newman Catholic SchoolAcademy converter Good 2024 49.6 0.260.08 to 0.44 0.9 mi
Ash Green SchoolAcademy converter No overall grade 40.7 -0.48-0.69 to -0.27 1 mi
Coundon CourtAcademy converter Report card 2026 45 -0.28-0.43 to -0.12 1.7 mi
Foxford Community SchoolAcademy sponsor led Good 2022 41 -0.23-0.45 to -0.02 1.8 mi
Barr's Hill SchoolAcademy converter Outstanding 2024 46.7 0.470.22 to 0.73 2.4 mi
Bablake SchoolOther independent school No overall grade — — 2.5 mi
Eden Girls' School, CoventryFree schools Outstanding 2023 62.6 1.521.25 to 1.79 2.6 mi

Schools like this

The 12 state schools in England whose intake most closely matches this one — same phase and sector, and as near as the data allows on size, disadvantage, SEN, English as an additional language and the deprivation of the surrounding area. These are the schools it can fairly be judged against.

This school 43.2
Median of its 12 closest peers 50.2
Coventry average 38.7
England average 47

Attainment 8 score. This school is behind the schools that teach a comparable intake.

SchoolAreaOfstedAttainment 8Progress 8Compare
Woolwich Polytechnic SchoolAcademy converter London Good 2024 45.2 -0.04-0.23 to 0.15 · not a win
Alderwood SchoolCommunity school Aldershot No overall grade 42.2 -0.59-0.85 to -0.34
Bristol Brunel AcademyAcademy sponsor led Bristol Good 2023 43.6 0.240.06 to 0.42
Chorlton High SchoolAcademy converter Manchester Report card 2025 54 0.230.07 to 0.40
Fullhurst Community CollegeFoundation school Leicester Good 2023 39.2 -0.17-0.34 to 0.00 · not a win
Swindon AcademyAcademy sponsor led Swindon Report card 2026 50.2 0.610.40 to 0.82
St Mary Magdalene AcademyAcademy sponsor led London Outstanding 2023 59.3 0.300.10 to 0.51
Clapton Girls' AcademyAcademy converter London Outstanding 2024 59.4 0.840.63 to 1.06
St Peter's SchoolAcademy converter Huntingdon Report card 2026 39.6 -0.16-0.35 to 0.03 · not a win
Sacred Heart Catholic High SchoolAcademy converter Newcastle-upon-Tyne No overall grade 52.1 0.540.35 to 0.73
Holy Trinity CofE Secondary School, CrawleyVoluntary aided school Crawley Good 2023 41.7 -0.31-0.51 to -0.12
Haberdashers' Hatcham CollegeAcademy sponsor led London No overall grade 50.5 0.08-0.11 to 0.27 · not a win

Matching uses only characteristics a school does not choose. It is not a ranking, and a close match on intake does not make two schools interchangeable — sixth form, faith character, admissions rules and simple geography all matter and are not in the calculation.

Evidence ledger

Reference dates and join methods are kept separate because the figures do not all describe the same year or geography.

EvidencePublisherReference dateHow it reaches this page
School identityGet Information About Schools23 August 2026Exact URN 140248; unified importer snapshot
Inspection evidenceOfsted management information31 July 2026Exact URN; inspection 6 December 2023
AttainmentDfE performance tables2024/25Exact URN; phase-specific definitions
Progress 8DfE performance tables2023/24Exact URN; confidence interval retained
AdmissionsDfE school applications and offers2026/27 plus history to 2014/15Exact URN and entry point; national offer day
Pupil intakeDfE school census2024/25Exact URN; suppressed values remain missing
Funding allocationDfE school funding statistics2025-26 financial yearNo row for this URN in the mainstream-school release; not represented as zero
Roads and transportDfT road casualties, traffic and NaPTANFive-year road window; access-node snapshotCoordinate join within the stated radius
NeighbourhoodONS Census2021LSOA/MSOA containing the school, not pupil homes
DeprivationEnglish Indices of Deprivation2019LSOA containing the school
Home pricesHM Land Registry Price Paid DataSales since January 2024School postcode sector, not a catchment

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