Cirencester Kingshill School A GSG School
- Cirencester Kingshill School
Kingshill Lane
Cirencester
Gloucestershire
GL7 1HS - Head: Jo Lindley
- T 01285 651511
- F 01285 885652
- E office@cirenceste…hill.gloucs.sch.uk
- W www.cirenceste…l.gloucs.sch.uk
- A state school for boys and girls aged from 11 to 16.
- Boarding: No
- Local authority: Gloucestershire
- Pupils: 877
- Religion: None
- Open days: Open Mornings are Thursday 29th September and Friday 30th September 9.15-10.45am (booking required)
- Review: View The Good Schools Guide Review
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Ofsted:
- Latest Overall effectiveness Requires improvement 1
- Outcomes for children and learners Requires improvement 1
- Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Requires improvement 1
- Personal development, behaviour and welfare Requires improvement 1
- Effectiveness of leadership and management Requires improvement 1
- 1 Full inspection 22nd November 2022
- Previous Ofsted grade: Good on 8th May 2013
- Ofsted report: View the Ofsted report
What The Good Schools Guide says..
Parents are spoilt for choice in this area with grammar schools and other well-performing state schools, but are are won over by CKS: it is ‘welcoming’ and ‘friendly’. ‘There’s so much space to run around outside,’ our guide enthused. Plus there are staggered lunchtimes so pupils are lucky enough to only share with their closest peers. Year 7 have own lunch break. Pupils seem genuinely happy and proud...
What the school says...
Converted to an academy 2011.
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What The Good Schools Guide says
Headteacher
Since September 2023, Jo Lindley.
Entrance
Non-selective. Applications (which increased from 189 to 196 pupils per year group in 2019) via local authority, Gloucestershire. On open mornings prospective parents are given tours by pupils, who, based on our experience are proud of their school.
The entrance process and settling in is straightforward. CKS staff visit local primary schools and ‘the taster day at the end of year 6 definitely helped…and the buddy system works brilliantly,’ report parents. Children can even travel to and from school on the bus on this day. Pupils settle quickly. Our guide admitted: ‘It was scary at first, but I was fine after a week.’
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Overall school performance (for comparison or review only)
Results by exam and subject
Subject results
Entry/Exit
Special Education Needs
An intervention programme is available for KS3 pupils in English and Maths. Reading and Spelling groups are run. The Learning Support Department is open lunchtime so that any pupil can get help with skilled-based work and homework. There is also an after school homework club. All pupils receive targets which pupils and tutors agree. We offer different types of support including General class support, support for Statement pupils, Literacy skill workshops, Basic skill groups, Key skill groups and Study groups.
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:
regularly
most years
quite often
infrequently
sometimes, but not in this year
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