King's School

Overview: King's School is a highly effective school where pupils achieve consistently well, with strong standards in achievement, attendance, and behaviour. The school provides a comprehensive programme for pupils' personal development and wellbeing, and its highly inclusive approach means that all pupils are fully included, particularly those who may experience barriers to their learning or wellbeing.

Strengths:

• Pupils achieve consistently well, with published information showing that in national examinations, pupils achieve overall outcomes that are above the national average by the end of Year 11.
• The school works assiduously to ensure that all pupils, including those facing barriers to learning, achieve highly, with a high proportion of pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) and those who are disadvantaged achieving as well as others.
• Attendance is consistently above the national average, including for pupils who face additional barriers to regular attendance.
• The school has high expectations of pupils' behaviour and their attitudes to learning, with pupils following the rules well and behaving well around the school.
• The school offers a wide, ambitious curriculum that enables pupils to develop the important foundational knowledge they will need and to pursue their interests.
• The school is highly effective in ensuring that all pupils are fully included, particularly those who may experience barriers to their learning or wellbeing.

Areas to improve:

• Leaders should continue to embed their work to improve the quality of teaching by ensuring that teachers consistently check how well pupils have understood new learning so that, as on the vast majority of occasions, any misconceptions are swiftly identified and addressed.
• Leaders should continue work to support greater student achievement in the sixth form so that it matches that in the rest of the school.

Safeguarding: The safeguarding standards are met, with leaders and/or those responsible for governance and oversight fulfilling their specific responsibilities and having established an open culture in which safeguarding is everyone's responsibility and concerns are actively identified, acted upon and managed.