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Kingsleigh Primary School

Primary · Bournemouth · BH10 5HT

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SchoolFacts estimate: Ofsted awarded no overall grade at this inspection

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Quality of education: GoodBehaviour & attitudes: GoodPersonal development: GoodLeadership & management: GoodSafeguarding effective: Yes

Inspected 11 February 2025

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At a glance

779 pupils · 93% of 840 capacity

School type
Academy converter
Age range
2–11
Gender
Mixed
Free school meals
36.6% of pupils
English as additional language
6.8% of pupils
SEN support
17.7% of pupils
EHC plan
4% of pupils
Nursery
Yes
Website
www.kingsleighprimary.co.uk
URN
142428

Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026

0.97 first-choice applications per place

67 places offered · 65 first-choice applications · roughly balanced

First-choice applications per place, by entry year

19/20
20/21
21/22
22/23
23/24
24/25
25/26
26/27

Applications and offers on national offer day, DfE. A ratio above 1.00 means more families named this school first choice than there were places.

Admissions cutoff distance: Reception

Every applicant was offered a place for 2026 entry, so distance was not needed to decide places.

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Cutoff distances as published by the local authority. Siblings and other priority groups are offered places first; cutoffs move year to year.

Key stage 2 results (2024/2025)

117 pupils at the end of key stage 2 in 2024/2025

Reaching the expected standard in reading, writing & maths
58%
England 62%
Reaching the higher standard
12%
England 8%
Average scaled score (reading)
105
England 106
Average scaled score (maths)
104
England 105

Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025. “Suppressed” means the DfE withholds figures for very small cohorts.

Schools with a similar intake

Meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 2024/2025

This school58%
Median of its 12 closest peers65.5%
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole average63.6%
England62%

On meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, this school is behind the schools that teach a comparable intake.

The twelve below are matched on intake alone, from every state school in England, so most are not local. They are the evidence behind the comparison above, not a shortlist. For schools you could realistically apply to, see nearby schools.

SchoolOfstedResult
Abbotswood Junior SchoolSouthampton · 21 miles awayGood60%
Ludlow Junior SchoolSouthampton · 25 miles awayGood66%
Minster in Sheppey Primary SchoolSheerness · 126 miles awayStrong standard89%
St Margaret Mary's Catholic Junior SchoolLiverpool · 188 miles awayGood76%
Queenborough School and NurseryQueenborough · 124 miles awayOutstanding85%
Dudley Wood Primary SchoolDudley · 119 miles awayGood65%
Cherry Tree Hill Primary SchoolDerby · 151 miles awayGood64%
Broadstone Hall Primary SchoolStockport · 185 miles awayGood69%
Castle Bromwich Junior SchoolBirmingham · 121 miles awayGood62%
Springfield Primary SchoolSunbury-on-Thames · 79 miles awayGood59%
John Wheeldon Primary AcademyStafford · 143 miles awayGood69%
St Paul's Catholic Junior SchoolLiverpool · 190 miles awayNeeds attention46%

The 12 state schools in England whose intake most closely matches this one: same phase and admissions type, and as near as the data allows on size, free school meals, English as an additional language, SEN and the child poverty of the surrounding area (IDACI 2025). Matching uses only characteristics a school does not choose. It is not a ranking, and a close match on intake does not make two schools interchangeable: sixth form, faith character, admissions rules and plain geography all matter and are not in the calculation. Results: DfE performance tables, 2024/2025. How the matching works.

Attendance (2025/26 autumn term)

Sessions missed (overall absence)
6.2%
England 6.5%
Pupils missing 10%+ of sessions (persistent absence)
18.9%
England 18.1%

Autumn-term absence, DfE pupil absence data. Lower is better.

Staffing

Pupils per qualified teacher
22.6
England 18.5

Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.

Teacher retention (2024/25)

77% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 13% moved to another state school · 10% left the state-funded sector

School Workforce Census, DfE. The ratio counts full-time-equivalent qualified teachers; retention follows teachers in post one November to the next. Open Government Licence v3.0.

Spending per pupil

This school£6,200
Typical primary school£6,959

Total expenditure ÷ pupils, academy finance return (DfE Schools Financial Benchmarking, latest year). Higher spending is not a measure of quality. It often reflects greater pupil need or a smaller school. Open Government Licence v3.0.

Inspection history since 2015

Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.

The area around the school

Child poverty (IDACI)
7/10less deprived than most of England
Overall deprivation (IMD)
6/10around the middle for England

English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (MHCLG), decile of the small area the school stands in: 1 is the most deprived tenth of England, 10 the least. IDACI counts only children in low-income families, which is the measure closest to the intake a school is likely to draw on.

Census 2021This areaEngland
Adults with a degree or higher20.8%33.9%
Adults with no qualifications17.4%18.1%
In managerial or professional work27.8%33.2%
Households deprived in two or more ways19.1%18.1%
Residents in very good health46.9%48.5%
Homes owned by the occupier74.4%62.3%
Social housing5%17.1%
Privately rented20.5%20.5%
Detached houses60.6%22.9%
Flats13.2%22.2%
Homes with four or more bedrooms13.7%21.1%
Households with no car or van12.7%23.5%

Census 2021 (ONS) for statistical area E01015336 (a lower layer super output area), the neighbourhood of roughly 1,423 adults that the school stands in. These figures describe the area, not the pupils. Children travel in from further away, and for selective, faith and some other schools usually much further. Open Government Licence v3.0.

What homes cost nearby

Median sale price
£325,000388 sales within 1 km, January 2024 to July 2026
Typical range
£290,000–£381,500the middle half of sales
England median
£300,000all sales over the same period
Detached (234)£360,000
Semi-detached (85)£305,000
Terraced (37)£300,000
Flat (32)£194,000

Homes around this school are dearer than most school neighbourhoods in England, comparing the median within 1 km across every state school.

Every residential sale registered with HM Land Registry within 1 km of the school (straight line) since January 2024, market sales of houses and flats only. A sale is dated by completion and registered weeks later, so the most recent months are incomplete. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Postcodes located with OS Code-Point Open: contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026; contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2026; contains National Statistics data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.

Roads around the school

Child pedestrian casualties
3an urban school averages 2.0
Collisions at school-run times
6an urban school averages 5.8
All reported collisions
29an urban school averages 30.6
Of those, serious or fatal
2an urban school averages 6.1

Every collision reported to the police within 500 m of the school in 2021–2025, from the Department for Transport's road casualty statistics (STATS19). "Child pedestrians" counts casualties aged under 16 on foot; "school-run times" means weekdays 07:30–09:00 and 15:00–16:30 outside August. A high count usually says the school sits on or near a busy road, not that the school is unsafe: counts rise with traffic and with how built-up an area is, which is why the comparison is with other urban schools. Distances are straight-line from the school's recorded position. Open Government Licence v3.0.

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