The King's School, Grantham A GSG School
- The King's School, Grantham
Brook Street
Grantham
Lincolnshire
NG31 6RP - Head: Simon Pickett
- T 01476 563180
- F 01476 590 953
- E [email protected]
- W www.kings.lincs.sch.uk
- A state school for boys aged from 11 to 18.
- Boarding: No
- Local authority: Lincolnshire
- Pupils: 1,186 ; sixth formers: 300
- Religion: None
- Review: View The Good Schools Guide Review
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Ofsted:
- Latest Overall effectiveness Good 1
- 16-19 study programmes Good 1
- Outcomes for children and learners Good 1
- Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good 1
- Personal development, behaviour and welfare Good 1
- Effectiveness of leadership and management Good 1
- 1 Full inspection 13th December 2022
- Ofsted report: View the Ofsted report
What The Good Schools Guide says..
The pressure is on academically but most boys seem to thrive. Incredibly successful water polo team: the school has dominated the sport for years and produced many international players. The school has been on the same site, just off the town centre, since 1528. The boys were known as King’s Scholars, Sir Isaac Newton being one of them. You can see his name carved in the wall of the original school building...
What the school says...
The Kings School, Grantham is a thriving school, rooted in a rich history but looking to the future with eagerness and preparing students to meet a future characterised by rapid change. The school prides itself on being part of the wider Grantham community.
Students are encouraged to participate fully and to be active in the community for the good of others. We seek success at the highest level in the classroom, on the sports field, through entrepreneurial opportunity and through artistic and dramatic activities. King's School became a fully selective academy on 1 August 2011.
The school traces its history back to 1329 when the first teacher was appointed. In 1528 the school was re-endowed by Bishop Foxe of Winchester who also founded Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Our most famous pupils include Sir Isaac Newton. ...Read more
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School associations
State grammar school
What The Good Schools Guide says
Head
Since September 2018, Simon Pickett BSC (physics), previously deputy head at William Farr School near Lincoln.
Entrance
All boys take the 11+ as compiled by the Lincolnshire Consortium of Grammar Schools, featuring verbal and non-verbal reasoning. Some 185 take the test for 176 places. The school is virtually full, with the odd place higher up.
Up to 20 per cent of the sixth form, some 30 boys, is made up of newcomers. Boys need to obtain six GCSEs at grade 6 or above, including maths and English and 6s or above in the subjects they wish to study at A level. If they are oversubscribed, they will take those with the best results.
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Overall school performance (for comparison or review only)
Results by exam and subject
Subject results
Entry/Exit
Special Education Needs
A selective Grammar School.
| Condition | Provision for in school |
|---|---|
| ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder | Y |
| Aspergers | Y |
| Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorders | Y |
| CReSTeD registered for Dyslexia | |
| Dyscalculia | |
| Dysgraphia | |
| Dyslexia | |
| Dyspraxia | |
| English as an additional language (EAL) | |
| Genetic | |
| Has an entry in the Autism Services Directory | |
| Has SEN unit or class | |
| HI - Hearing Impairment | |
| Hospital School | |
| Mental health | |
| MLD - Moderate Learning Difficulty | |
| MSI - Multi-Sensory Impairment | |
| Natspec Specialist Colleges | |
| OTH - Other Difficulty/Disability | |
| Other SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty | |
| PD - Physical Disability | |
| PMLD - Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulty | |
| SEMH - Social, Emotional and Mental Health | |
| SLCN - Speech, Language and Communication | |
| SLD - Severe Learning Difficulty | |
| Special facilities for Visually Impaired | |
| SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty | |
| VI - Visual Impairment |
Interpreting catchment maps
The maps show in colour where the pupils at a school came from*. Red = most pupils to Blue = fewest.
Where the map is not coloured we have no record in the previous three years of any pupils being admitted from that location based on the options chosen.
For help and explanation of our catchment maps see: Catchment maps explained
Further reading
If there are more applicants to a school than it has places for, who gets in is determined by which applicants best fulfil the admissions criteria.
Admissions criteria are often complicated, and may change from year to year. The best source of information is usually the relevant local authority website, but once you have set your sights on a school it is a good idea to ask them how they see things panning out for the year that you are interested in.
Many schools admit children based on distance from the school or a fixed catchment area. For such schools, the cut-off distance will vary from year to year, especially if the school give priority to siblings, and the pattern will be of a central core with outliers (who will mostly be siblings). Schools that admit on the basis of academic or religious selection will have a much more scattered pattern.
*The coloured areas outlined in black are Census Output Areas. These are made up of a group of neighbouring postcodes, which accounts for their odd shapes. These provide an indication, but not a precise map, of the school’s catchment: always refer to local authority and school websites for precise information.
The 'hotter' the colour the more children have been admitted.
Children get into the school from here:
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most years
quite often
infrequently
sometimes, but not in this year
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