Kings' School

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Kings' School
Motto	Una Laborantes (Working Together)
Established	1985
Type	School
Headteacher	Mrs Susan Lawrence
Specialism	Business and Enterprise
Location	Romsey Road Winchester Hampshire SO22 5PN England
LEA	Hampshire
Ofsted number	116468
Students	1640
Gender	Coeducational
Ages	11 to 16
Website	http://www.kings-winchester.hants.sch.uk/

Kings' School is a comprehensive school in Winchester, Hampshire. It is the National Centre of Excellence for Virtual Schools and has recently been awarded Business and Enterprise College Specialist status. Kings' is a large school with about 1,800 pupils.

1 Achievements
2 Catchment area
3 History
4 Former pupils
5 References
6 External links

[edit] Achievements

In recent years between 80 and 85% of 15 year olds have achieved five or more GCSE grades A to C, 70-80% including Maths and English.^[1]
According to the BBC league tables, Kings' is one of Hampshire's top state schools.

[edit] Catchment area

Kings' has a large catchment, inside Winchester, but stretching south to the surrounding villages. It also takes in students from out of catchment from as far north as Andover, and as far south as Southampton in a fleet of yellow buses. Unusually for a State Comprehensive, Kings' also features a boys' boarding house, Kings' School House.

[edit] History

Kings' was formed in 1985 by the merging of Danemark girls school and the Winchester Boys' Secondary Modern or Montgomery of Alamein School. These schools could trace their roots back to the Wesleyan Day School (1889), St Thomas's School (1893), St Mary's School (1900) and Danemark Central School (1912).

[edit] Former pupils

Wayne Bridge, footballer.^{[citation needed]}
Colin Firth, film, television and stage actor (as Montgomery of Alamein School).^[2]
Jack Dee, stand-up comedian, actor and writer (as Montgomery of Alamein School).^{[citation needed]}
Anthony 'Budge' Pountney, Scottish rugby player, now director of rugby at Northampton Saints.^[3]
Oliver Gilsenan (BBC Masterchef contestant)