Kings' Forest Primary School

About Kings' Forest Primary School

Kings' Forest Primary School holds a Good rating from Ofsted, a grade it has maintained consistently across its two most recent inspections. In its 2023 ungraded inspection, the school was judged to have remained Good, with leadership and management, early years provision, and overall effectiveness all rated Good. The most telling exam metric comes from the 2023/24 Key Stage 2 results: 67% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined. That figure sits above the South Gloucestershire local authority average of 61%, placing the school 26th out of 69 primary schools in the area. It also ranks within the top 50% nationally, at the 40th percentile. While the proportion of pupils achieving the higher standard in all three subjects is low at 3%, individual subject scores tell a more nuanced story: 30% of pupils reached the higher standard in reading, and 23% did so in maths.

Looking more closely at the academic picture, Kings' Forest pupils performed solidly across the core subjects. In reading, the average scaled score was 105, with 75% of pupils meeting the expected standard. Maths saw an average score of 104 and 73% reaching the expected level, while writing had the highest expected standard attainment at 77%. The school's overall ranking score of 67, based on the proportion of pupils achieving the expected standard in all three subjects, places it in the top 50 tier within the South West region. Compared with its previous Ofsted inspection in 2016, the school has held its Good rating, though the early years provision grade dropped from Outstanding to Good in the most recent graded inspection. The school has a higher-than-average proportion of pupils eligible for free school meals at 14.5%, yet still manages to outperform the local authority average on the key combined measure.

Kings' Forest is a larger-than-average primary school with 442 pupils against a capacity of 420, and it is oversubscribed: for the 2025/26 academic year, there were 125 applications for 60 places, with 57 of those going to first-preference applicants. The school offers a nursery provision for children aged three and above, and its facilities include playing fields, a sports hall, art studios, a library, a gymnasium, an ICT suite, music rooms and even a chapel. Sports on offer include football, rounders, dance, netball and cricket, while clubs range from coding and art to choir and gardening. The school has a broad range of SEND provisions, covering specific learning difficulties like dyslexia, moderate learning difficulties, social, emotional and mental health needs, speech and language communication needs, visual impairment, physical disability, and autistic spectrum disorder. This makes it a practical choice for families seeking a well-equipped, inclusive state primary with strong core results and a clear oversubscription pattern.

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