Kingsbury High School

About Kingsbury High School

Kingsbury High School is a large mixed secondary and sixth form in the London borough of Brent, a local authority with a strong concentration of high-performing state schools. Among the 13 secondary schools in Brent ranked by Progress 8, Kingsbury sits in 8th place, placing it just below the top half of the local table. The three highest-ranked peers in the borough are Michaela Community School, Wembley High Technology College, and JFS, all of which post significantly higher Progress 8 scores. Kingsbury’s own Progress 8 score of +0.36 is comfortably above the national average, but it falls short of the Brent average of +0.73, which is unusually high. The school is also notably oversubscribed: for the 2025/26 intake, it received 647 applications for 332 places, with 231 first-preference offers made. That level of demand suggests strong local confidence, even in a competitive landscape. The nearest Outstanding-rated school is Claremont High School, 1.4 km away, but Kingsbury has held a Good rating from Ofsted across its two most recent inspections, including an ungraded visit in February 2024 that confirmed the school remains Good.

Academically, Kingsbury delivers solid results across both key stages. At GCSE, the school’s Attainment 8 score is 48.6, and 67.8% of pupils achieved a grade 4 or above in English and maths, with 49.4% reaching grade 5 or above. The EBacc entry rate is high at 88%, and 40.8% of pupils entered the EBacc achieved a grade 4 or above. Progress 8 is +0.36, which is banded as ‘Above average’ nationally, with particularly strong progress in the EBacc subjects (+0.51) and maths (+0.39). In the sixth form, the school’s value-added score is +0.04, rated as ‘Average’, and the average A-level grade per entry is a B-. The best three A-levels average out at a B- grade, with 19.5% of entries achieving AAB or higher. While these sixth form outcomes are respectable, they do not match the exceptional Progress 8 scores seen at the top of the Brent table. The school’s national ranking by Progress 8 is 718th out of 3,141 schools, placing it in the top quarter of all state secondaries.

Kingsbury is a well-resourced school with a broad range of facilities, including a swimming pool, theatre, sports hall, astro turf, and a dedicated sixth form centre. It offers a wide variety of sports, from rowing and rugby to gymnastics and hockey, and an extensive club programme that includes Model UN, Young Enterprise, coding, and debate. The school has a formal sixth form and is non-boarding. Its SEND provisions cover moderate learning difficulties, social, emotional and mental health needs, speech, language and communication needs, physical disabilities, and a resourced provision. With 30.4% of pupils eligible for free school meals, the school serves a diverse and relatively disadvantaged intake compared to the national average. This makes its above-average Progress 8 score particularly notable. Kingsbury is a good fit for families in Brent who want a large, inclusive, and well-equipped secondary with strong GCSE outcomes and a busy extracurricular offer, but who are realistic that it sits below the borough’s very highest performers in terms of raw academic scores.

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