Denbigh School
Academy converter · sixth form · 1,778 pupils
91% stayed in education · Attainment 8 54.3
Free schools
Kents Hill Park all-through school
- Pupils on roll
- 1,056of 1,080 places
- Free school meals
- 31.0%
- Year 11 cohort 2025
- 156
- Ofsted
- Good, 4 October 2022Read the Ofsted report
What the data says
Kents Hill Park all-through school has no sixth form. Of the 118 pupils who finished Year 11 there in 2023, none moved to a sixth form college, 30% to a further education college and 4% started an apprenticeship.
Business Studies is unusually popular at GCSE: 63% of the year group took it, against 18% of pupils across England.
GCSE results in 2025 were above the national picture: Attainment 8 of 50.2 against 46.1 across England and 44.2 in Milton Keynes, with 56% of pupils getting grade 5 or above in both English and maths (England 45%).
As an 11–16 school, Kents Hill Park all-through school is judged on where pupils go at 16 rather than on A level results.
Where pupils went after Year 11
Destinations of the 2023 Year 11 leavers, measured the following year: the share in a sustained place for at least two terms. Compared with all state-funded schools in Milton Keynes and England.
School sixth formSixth form collegeFurther education collegeOther educationApprenticeshipEmploymentNo sustained destination
| Measure | This school | Milton Keynes | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils in the cohort | 118 | 3,422 | 607,348 |
| Any sustained destination | 92% | 93% | 92% |
| Stayed in education | 86% | 89% | 86% |
| — school sixth form | 56% | 50% | 34% |
| — sixth form college | 0% | — | 13% |
| — further education college | 30% | 36% | 37% |
| — other education | 1% | 3% | 2% |
| Apprenticeship | 4% | 2% | 3% |
| Employment | 2% | 2% | 3% |
| No sustained destination | 7% | 5% | 6% |
| Destination unknown | 1% | 2% | 3% |
GCSE results 2025
| Measure | This school | Milton Keynes | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Attainment 8 (average points per pupil) | 50.2 | 44.2 | 46.1 |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 56% | 44% | 45% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 71% | 63% | 65% |
| Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects | 59% | 40% | 41% |
| EBacc average point score | 4.62 | 3.94 | 4.09 |
| Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort | 30% | 27% | 28% |
| Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils | 40.0 | 33.1 | 34.9 |
| Attainment 8 — other pupils | 54.4 | 48.4 | 50.4 |
| Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2) | — | — | — |
| English as an additional language | 18% | 25% | 19% |
Progress 8 is not available for 2025 and 2026: these cohorts had no Key Stage 2 tests in 2020 and 2021, so there is no baseline. Attainment 8 shows results without taking pupils’ starting points into account.
Subjects taken at GCSE
Entries in 2025 as a share of the Year 11 cohort, and the share of entries graded 7–9 and 4–9, compared with all entries in England.
| Subject | Entries | Share of cohort | England | Grades 7–9 | England | Grades 4–9 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mathematics | 155 | 99% | 88% | 32% | 22% | 74% |
| English Language | 155 | 99% | 89% | 18% | 20% | 71% |
| English Literature | 148 | 95% | 86% | 30% | 21% | 84% |
| Combined Science | 122 | 78% | 65% | 13% | 9% | 61% |
| Business Studies | 99 | 63% | 18% | 23% | 20% | 79% |
| History | 95 | 61% | 41% | 21% | 26% | 63% |
| Spanish | 89 | 57% | 19% | 19% | 27% | 64% |
| Geography | 68 | 44% | 41% | 31% | 25% | 75% |
| Computer Science | 47 | 30% | 13% | 26% | 30% | 74% |
| Religious Studies | 44 | 28% | 31% | 39% | 32% | 77% |
| Chemistry | 30 | 19% | 23% | 60% | 47% | 100% |
| Biology | 30 | 19% | 23% | 60% | 45% | 100% |
| Physics | 30 | 19% | 23% | 70% | 46% | 100% |
| Art and Design | 22 | 14% | 7% | 36% | 24% | 68% |
| Music | 13 | 8% | 5% | 0% | 33% | 23% |
| Dance | 6 | 4% | 1% | 17% | 27% | 33% |
| Urdu | 2 | 1% | 1% | — | 42% | — |
| Arabic | 1 | 1% | 1% | — | 47% | — |
| Chinese | 1 | 1% | 1% | — | 75% | — |
| Polish | 1 | 1% | 1% | — | 84% | — |
| Russian | 1 | 1% | 0% | — | 87% | — |
| Citizenship Studies | 1 | 1% | 3% | — | 19% | — |
Technical awards and other Key Stage 4 qualifications
| Subject | Entries | Share of cohort | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sports Studies | 35 | — | — |
| Art and Design | 21 | — | — |
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Sources: Department for Education school and college performance tables 2024/2025 (Key Stage 4 and 16–18 results, subject entries, destination measures for 2023 leavers); Get Information About Schools register as at 19 September 2026; Ofsted management information as at 31 August 2026. Small numbers are suppressed by DfE and shown as “—”. How to read these figures.