Abbey Park School
Academy sponsor led · 1,193 pupils
87% stayed in education · Attainment 8 46.2
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Kingsdown School
- Pupils on roll
- 1,108of 1,260 places
- Free school meals
- 30.1%
- Year 11 cohort 2025
- 154
- Ofsted
- Standards maintained, 19 March 2025Read the Ofsted report
Results below include those reported under the school’s previous registration: Kingsdown School (URN 137265, until 31 August 2017).
What the data says
Kingsdown School has no sixth form. Of the 167 pupils who finished Year 11 there in 2023, 30% moved to a sixth form college, 49% to a further education college and 3% started an apprenticeship.
Food Preparation and Nutrition is unusually popular at GCSE: 23% of the year group took it, against 8% of pupils across England.
Sixth form colleges are the main next step: 30% of leavers went to one, roughly twice the England rate of 13%.
GCSE results in 2025 were below the national picture: Attainment 8 of 41.4 against 46.1 across England and 44.0 in Swindon, with 37% of pupils getting grade 5 or above in both English and maths (England 45%).
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 Swindon and England.
School sixth formSixth form collegeFurther education collegeOther educationApprenticeshipEmploymentNo sustained destination
| Measure | Kingsdown School | Swindon | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils in the cohort | 167 | 2,533 | 607,348 |
| Any sustained destination | 90% | 92% | 92% |
| Stayed in education | 82% | 87% | 86% |
| — school sixth form | 3% | 19% | 34% |
| — sixth form college | 30% | 19% | 13% |
| — further education college | 49% | 47% | 37% |
| — other education | 0% | 3% | 2% |
| Apprenticeship | 3% | 3% | 3% |
| Employment | 5% | 3% | 3% |
| No sustained destination | 8% | 6% | 6% |
| Destination unknown | 2% | 2% | 3% |
GCSE results 2025
| Measure | Kingsdown School | Swindon | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Attainment 8 (average points per pupil) | 41.4 | 44.0 | 46.1 |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 37% | 43% | 45% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 58% | 63% | 65% |
| Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects | 30% | 34% | 41% |
| EBacc average point score | 3.55 | 3.91 | 4.09 |
| Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort | 22% | 23% | 28% |
| Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils | 27.1 | 32.5 | 34.9 |
| Attainment 8 — other pupils | 45.4 | 47.5 | 50.4 |
| Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2) | — | — | — |
| English as an additional language | 3% | 16% | 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 | 152 | 99% | 88% | 17% | 22% | 65% |
| English Language | 152 | 99% | 89% | 18% | 20% | 65% |
| Combined Science | 146 | 95% | 65% | 8% | 9% | 52% |
| English Literature | 144 | 94% | 86% | 15% | 21% | 67% |
| Geography | 72 | 47% | 41% | 10% | 25% | 56% |
| History | 66 | 43% | 41% | 20% | 26% | 50% |
| French | 51 | 33% | 18% | 10% | 29% | 63% |
| Computer Science | 40 | 26% | 13% | 23% | 30% | 68% |
| Food Preparation and Nutrition | 36 | 23% | 8% | 3% | 21% | 19% |
| Design and Technology | 35 | 23% | 11% | 3% | 23% | 49% |
| Religious Studies | 22 | 14% | 31% | 9% | 32% | 55% |
| Photography | 20 | 13% | 6% | 10% | 19% | 80% |
| Fine Art | 18 | 12% | 9% | 6% | 28% | 78% |
| Drama | 10 | 6% | 7% | 0% | 27% | 40% |
| Music | 9 | 6% | 5% | 11% | 33% | 67% |
| Art and Design | 3 | 2% | 7% | — | 24% | — |
| Biology | 1 | 1% | 23% | — | 45% | — |
| Russian | 1 | 1% | 0% | — | 87% | — |
| Spanish | 1 | 1% | 19% | — | 27% | — |
| Ancient History | 1 | 1% | 0% | — | 37% | — |
| Italian | 1 | 1% | 0% | — | 53% | — |
Technical awards and other Key Stage 4 qualifications
| Subject | Entries | Share of cohort | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Retailing | 77 | — | — |
| Sports Studies | 50 | — | — |
| Health Studies | 22 | — | — |
| Sports / Movement Science | 17 | — | — |
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St Joseph's Catholic College
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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.