Kings Cross Academy

King’s Cross Academy continues to perform well as a good school, demonstrating a strong commitment to pupil welfare and achievement. The school fosters a welcoming and secure environment where pupils are safe, happy, and exhibit good behavior and a strong work ethic in their lessons. There is a clear focus on personal and academic development, particularly for those with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), which the leaders manage effectively. The curriculum is broad and ambitious, aiming to equip pupils with essential knowledge and skills, especially in areas like reading and coding.

Strengths

• Pupils feel safe and happy in a caring environment.
• There are strong relationships based on mutual respect between staff and pupils.
• Leaders promote a love for reading and support phonics teaching effectively.
• Pupils with SEND receive appropriate support and achieve well.
• The school offers a wide variety of extracurricular opportunities, including sports competitions and educational visits.

Areas for Improvement

• Some subjects lack a clearly defined curriculum leading to gaps in knowledge.
• Teaching implementation of the intended curriculum is inconsistent.

Admissions: local authority offers data from the Department for Education. A school is oversubscribed when at least 5% of the families who put it first were not offered a place, and undersubscribed when everyone who put it first got in but 10% or more of its places were unfilled in the Department's school capacity survey (the latest survey is used for entry years it does not cover). Places: Department for Education, School capacity, from local authorities' annual survey as at 1 May. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024–25); the survey was not run in 2020. Places include sixth form places. Forecasts are the local authority's own for the school's planning area, an area it uses to plan places that is not the school's catchment area. The forecast starts from a head count in 2025; the dashed line is the Department's estimate of places in that area, including those the authority has firm plans for. Planned places are cumulative, and only those with firm plans are counted.

In 2024–25 pupils at Kings Cross Academy attended 93.0% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 21.3% of pupils were persistently absent, missing at least one session in ten (nationally 13.0%).

Sessions missed

Pupils persistently absent

Source: Department for Education, Pupil absence in schools in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). Persistent absence means missing 10% or more of sessions; severe absence means 50% or more. No figures were published for 2019/20.

In 2024–25, 0.8% of pupils at Kings Cross Academy were suspended at least once (nationally 1.1%). No pupils were permanently excluded.

Pupils suspended at least once

Source: Department for Education, Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). A pupil can be suspended more than once, so suspensions per 100 pupils can be higher than the share of pupils suspended. Very small numbers are hidden by the DfE. Exclusion figures dropped in 2020 and 2021 because of school closures.

In 2025–26 Kings Cross Academy had 17.2 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 26.1% were no longer at the school a year later (nationally 15.7%).

Pupils per teacher

Teachers who left the school within a year

Source: Department for Education, School workforce in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). Pupils per teacher counts full-time-equivalent pupils and teachers. Turnover is the share of a year's teachers (full-time equivalent) who were not at the school the following year, whether they moved to another school or left state-funded teaching. Turnover and sickness figures run one year behind the ratios. Sick leave is the share of teachers who took at least one day in the year, so it swings widely at small schools, where a few teachers can make it 0% or 100%. The national figures are for all state schools of the same type.

In 2025–26, 28.1% of pupils at Kings Cross Academy were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 4.5% had an education, health and care (EHC) plan (nationally 4.1%).

Pupils by main type of need

Source: Department for Education, Special educational needs in England (the 2025–26 school census). SEN support is extra help in school without an EHC plan. National figures are for all state-funded primary schools. Counts are as published, with small numbers not hidden.

In 2024–25 Kings Cross Academy received £10,622 and spent £10,734 for each of its 384 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £1,396,000 (£3,635 per pupil).

Income per pupil

Spending per pupil

Source: Department for Education, Financial Benchmarking and Insights Tool. Each year is the one the financial year ends in (2024 is 2023–24). Academy figures include a share of the trust's central services, shared out by pupil numbers, and are rounded to the nearest £1,000. Premises costs were defined differently from 2024, so compare them across that gap with care.

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What is Kings Cross Academy's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Kings Cross Academy is Good, from an inspection in September 2023.

When was Kings Cross Academy last inspected by Ofsted?

Kings Cross Academy was last inspected in September 2023.

How many pupils does Kings Cross Academy have?

Kings Cross Academy has 399 pupils on roll.

What age range does Kings Cross Academy cover?

Kings Cross Academy for pupils aged 3 to 11.

What are Kings Cross Academy's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 52% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Kings Cross Academy?

Kings Cross Academy is at Plimsoll Building, 4 Wollstonecraft Street, London, N1C 4BT.