King's Academy Ringmer[1]

Secondary · ages 11–16

Headline results

Attainment 8: A8 51 50.6 2025/26[2]

Results

GCSE (key stage 4)

Attainment 8: 50.6 2025/26[2]
Grade 5+ in English & maths: 54.2% 2025/26[2]
Grade 7+ in English & maths: 13.1% 2025/26[2]
Progress 8: +0.30 2023/24[3]
Progress 8, 2025/26: Not calculated[4]
Progress 8, 2024/25: Not calculated[4]

Earlier years
Year	Attainment 8	Grade 5+ in English & maths	Progress 8
2024/25	47.6[5]	41.4%[5]
2023/24	46.4[3]	44.6%[3]	+0.30[3]
2022/23	47.3[6]	41%[6]	+0.36[6]
2021/22	49.1[7]	44%[7]	+0.35[7]

Destinations after GCSEs

Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment: 94% 2022/23[8]
School sixth form: 2% 2022/23[8]
Sixth-form college: 15% 2022/23[8]
Further education college: 72% 2022/23[8]
Apprenticeship: 2% 2022/23[8]
Employment: 2% 2022/23[8]

Earlier leavers
Left in	Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment	School sixth form	Sixth-form college	Further education college	Apprenticeship	Employment
2021/22	96%[9]	4%[9]	30%[9]	52%[9]	1%[9]	8%[9]
2020/21	93%[10]	3%[10]	17%[10]	59%[10]	5%[10]	7%[10]
2019/20	98%[11]	11%[11]	24%[11]	56%[11]	3%[11]	3%[11]
2018/19	91%[12]	9%[12]	16%[12]	58%[12]	6%[12]	2%[12]

Shares of the pupils who left in the year shown. Russell Group and Oxford or Cambridge figures were published for leavers up to 2019/20 only.

Ofsted

Latest inspection: 12 Nov 2024[13]
Type: Section 8 inspection of good and outstanding schools[13]
Report published: 15 Dec 2024[13]
Safeguarding is effective?: Yes[13]
Outcomes for ungraded and monitoring inspections: Standards maintained[13]

Earlier inspections
Inspection	Type	Overall
14 May 2019[14]	S5 Inspection[14]	Good[14]

Competition to get in

Applications and offers, Year 7

Applications per place: 3.2 Entry Sept 2026[15]
Applications (any preference): 476 Entry Sept 2026[15]
First preferences: 140 Entry Sept 2026[15]
Places offered: 149 Entry Sept 2026[15]
First preferences per place: 0.9 Entry Sept 2026[15]

Earlier years
Entry	Applications	First preferences	Places offered	Per place	First preferences per place
Entry Sept 2025	453[15]	134[15]	148[15]	3.1[15]	0.9[15]
Entry Sept 2024	412[15]	158[15]	149[15]	2.8[15]	1.1[15]
Entry Sept 2023	408[15]	132[15]	144[15]	2.8[15]	0.9[15]
Entry Sept 2022	297[15]	127[15]	146[15]	2.0[15]	0.9[15]

Character & practicalities

Type: Academy converter[1]
Ages: 11–16[1]
Boys / girls: Mixed[1]
Sixth form: No[1]
Capacity: 750[1]
Trust: KING'S GROUP ACADEMIES[1]
Local authority: East Sussex[1]
Website: www.kgaringmer.uk [1]
District: Lewes [16]
Postcode: BN8 5RB[1]
URN: 144505[1]

School details as recorded in Get Information About Schools on 14 Oct 2026.

Pupils

Number on roll: 642 2024/25[17]
English as an additional language: 1.6% 2024/25[17]
SEN support: 19.9% 2024/25[17]
EHC plan: 2.2% 2024/25[17]
Free school meals in the last 6 years: 22% 2024/25[17]

Pupils' ethnicity 2025/26

White: 91.7%[18]
Mixed: 4.1%[18]
Asian: 0.8%[18]
Black: 0.6%[18]
Any other ethnic group: 0.6%[18]
Unclassified: 2.3%[18]

The school census's major ethnic groups as shares of the school's pupils, summed by us from the published counts. For information only: never used to rank, filter or colour schools.

Sources

Department for Education: Get Information About Schools: all establishments. Period 2026-10-14, published 2026-10-14. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Department for Education: Performance tables schools data (explore education statistics). Period 2025/26, provisional, published 2026-10-15. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 final. Period 2023/24, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Department for Education: Key stage 4 performance 2024/25: data guidance. Period 2024/25. Archived copy; original. Licence: OGL-3.0.
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It is not possible to calculate Progress 8 for academic years 2024/25 and 2025/26 due to gaps in the baseline caused by COVID-19 disruption.
Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 final. Period 2024/25, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 final. Period 2022/23, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 final. Period 2021/22, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 destinations. Period 2022/23, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 destinations. Period 2021/22, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 destinations. Period 2020/21, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 destinations. Period 2019/20, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 destinations. Period 2018/19, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Ofsted: State-funded schools inspections and outcomes. Period 2024/25. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Ofsted: State-funded schools inspections and outcomes. Period 2018/19. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Department for Education: Primary and secondary school applications and offers: school level. Period Entry Sept 2026, final, published 2026-06-29. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Office for National Statistics: Parish to Ward to Local Authority District (May 2026) Lookup in EW. Period 2026-05-01. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: School census. Period 2024/25, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Department for Education: Schools, pupils and their characteristics: school level underlying data. Period 2025/26, published 2026-06-04. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.