Secondary
Kingsdown School
Hyde Rd, Stratton St Margaret, Swindon, SN2 7SH
Key facts
- Phase
- Secondary
- Type
- Academy converter
- Ages
- 11 to 16
- Intake
- Mixed
- Pupils
- 1108 of 1260 places
- Local authority
- Swindon
- SEN provision
- ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder
- Trust
- RIVER LEARNING TRUST
Ofsted
Last inspected March 2025
Standards maintained
Still graded as at
Good
- Behaviour and attitudesGood
- Leadership and governanceGood
- Personal developmentGood
- Quality of educationGood
An ungraded inspection, which checks whether a school remains at its previous grade rather than re-grading it. Inspected under the previous framework, which used its own four-point scale. Ofsted now publishes a report card grading several areas separately, so these grades are not directly comparable with a recent inspection’s.
Read the full Ofsted report (opens in a new tab)Earlier inspections1
January 2020
Previous framework
Good
Safeguarding: met
- Behaviour and attitudesGood
- Leadership and governanceGood
- Personal developmentGood
- Quality of educationGood
GCSE results
37%
41.4
11th of 15 by our score, among the secondary schools in Swindon we can score - 18 in total, the rest without enough published data. Local and same-phase on purpose: a national table mostly measures who attends.
All published measures2024/2025
| Measure | Result |
|---|---|
| Attainment 8 | 41.4 |
| EBacc average point score | 3.55 |
| Entered the EBacc | 30% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 58% |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 37% |
From the Department for Education. Measures are published per year and suppressed where a cohort is too small, so some schools show fewer. There are no results for 2019/20 or 2020/21, when exams and assessments were cancelled.
Results over time4 years
Each measure on its own scale, over every year we hold.
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 49% |
| 22/23 | 39% |
| 23/24 | 38% |
| 24/25 | 37% |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | -0.09 |
| 22/23 | -0.03 |
| 23/24 | -0.36 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 45.1 |
| 22/23 | 42.6 |
| 23/24 | 41.6 |
| 24/25 | 41.4 |
Hyde Rd, Stratton St Margaret, Swindon, SN2 7SH
Admissions
How to apply (opens in a new tab)
You apply through your council, not the school - even for academies and free schools. Applications close on 31 October, the year before starting.
Swindon admissions (opens in a new tab)
The council publishes the oversubscription criteria and last year’s offer distances, which is the closest thing to knowing your chances.
If you are refused a place (opens in a new tab)
You can appeal, and you can join a waiting list at the same time. Accept whatever offer you get first - declining it can leave you with no place at all.
This school’s own admissions (opens in a new tab)
Schools that set their own criteria - faith schools, grammars, academies - publish them on their own site.
Contact
- Headteacher
- Emma Leigh-Bennett
- Address
- Hyde Rd, Stratton St Margaret, Swindon, SN2 7SH
- Telephone
- 01793822284