Kingswood School A GSG School
- Kingswood School
Lansdown Road
Bath
BA1 5RG - Head: Andrew Gordon-Brown
- T 01225 734200
- F 01225 734305
- E [email protected]
- W www.kingswood.bath.sch.uk/
- An independent school for boys and girls aged from 11 to 18.
- Boarding: Yes
- Local authority: Bath and North East Somerset
- Pupils: 814; sixth formers: 241
- Religion: Methodist
- Fees: Day £15,884; Boarding £24,969 - £34,235 pa
- Open days: See website for virtual tours and Kingswood Stories - senior school open day 25 September 2021
- Review: View The Good Schools Guide Review
- ISI report: View the ISI report
What The Good Schools Guide says..
Even on a grey day, the views from the school are magnificent. It is ideally placed – a 20-minute walk down the hill into the city, but with a country feel about it. Even though day pupils outnumber boarders, Kingswood feels like a co-ed boarding school with day pupils. The arts are outstanding and there is an annual award ceremony for artistically talented pupils in art, drama, DT and music. A third of pupils learn a…
What the school says...
Kingswood School is one of the finest independent schools in the South West of England, providing an atmosphere of happiness and excellence in which children thrive. Day and boarding pupils are fully integrated. They benefit from and enjoy a dynamic curriculum with a breadth of teaching and learning to enable them to reach their own true potential. ...Read more
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Other features
All-through school (for example 3-18 years). - An all-through school covers junior and senior education. It may start at 3 or 4, or later, and continue through to 16 or 18. Some all-through schools set exams at 11 or 13 that pupils must pass to move on.
Sports
Equestrian centre or equestrian team - school has own equestrian centre or an equestrian team.
What The Good Schools Guide says
Headmaster
Since September 2020, Andrew Gordon-Brown, formerly headmaster at Truro School. Educated at Hyde Park High School in Johannesburg, read commerce at University of Cape Town and then qualified as a chartered accountant. He rowed for South Africa in the 1992 Olympic Games (team came a creditable eighth) and set his heart on rowing for Oxford or Cambridge. He achieved his dream when he completed an MSc in agricultural economics at Keble College, Oxford and picked up a rowing blue along the way (he rowed for Oxford in the 1994 Boat Race). After 12 years in banking and financial services, working for blue chip companies such as Deloitte, UBS and JPMorgan Chase, he had a ‘Damascene conversion’ and decided to become a teacher. ‘I turned my back on the big bucks,’ he told us with...
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Overall school performance (for comparison or review only)
Results by exam and subject
Subject results
Entry/Exit
Special Education Needs
Kingswood School offers a limited level of learning support for pupils with mild difficulties such as Dyslexia.
| Condition | Provision for in school |
|---|---|
| ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder | |
| 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 |
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