Christ The King Voluntary Academy

About Christ The King Voluntary Academy

Christ the King Voluntary Academy sits within Nottinghamshire’s Gedling borough, a Roman Catholic secondary that ranks third among the six state secondaries in its immediate local authority area when measured by Progress 8. That puts it ahead of half its Gedling peers, though it sits behind the county’s top performers — Rushcliffe Spencer Academy, The West Bridgford School and Carlton le Willows Academy all post higher ranking scores. Across the wider Nottinghamshire local authority, which contains 46 state secondaries, Christ the King places 12th overall. The nearest school rated Outstanding by Ofsted is Redhill Academy, just 1.6 kilometres away. Christ the King itself has held a Good rating across both its most recent graded inspection in 2014 and an ungraded visit in 2023, where inspectors confirmed the school remains Good. Leadership and management, sixth-form provision and overall effectiveness were all judged Good in the last full inspection, and the 2023 visit found no reason to change that judgement.

Academically, Christ the King delivers results that sit comfortably above the Nottinghamshire average. Its Progress 8 score of 0.12 means pupils make slightly more progress than those in similar schools nationally, and well above the local authority average of -0.11. Attainment 8 sits at 47.6, with 72 per cent of pupils achieving a grade 4 or above in English and maths, and 49.3 per cent reaching the higher grade 5 threshold. The EBacc average points score is 3.99, with 27.3 per cent of pupils entering the EBacc combination and 20 per cent achieving a grade 4 or above across it. In the sixth form, the school’s value-added score of 0.02 is rated Average, with students averaging a C grade per A-level entry and 29.51 points per entry. Just under 16 per cent of A-level entries achieved grades AAB or higher. The school’s national Progress 8 ranking places it in the top 40 per cent of all schools in England.

The school is heavily oversubscribed: for 151 places in the 2025/26 intake, it received 417 applications, a ratio of 2.76 applicants per place, and made 108 offers to first-preference families. Facilities include science labs, a sports hall, tennis courts, playing fields, a chapel and a dedicated sixth-form centre. Sports on offer include cricket, swimming, rowing and basketball, while clubs range from orchestra and debate to Young Enterprise and eco club. The school has a broad SEND offer, with provisions for dyslexia, moderate learning difficulties, social and emotional mental health needs, speech and language needs, physical disabilities and autistic spectrum disorder. With 24.6 per cent of pupils eligible for free school meals — above the national average — Christ the King serves a genuinely mixed catchment. It suits families who want a faith-based secondary with solid, above-average outcomes and a sixth form that keeps options open, but who are realistic about the competition for places.

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