Performance information for The King’s Church of England Academy may be accessed on the DfE website by using the link below. 

It remains the case that where students have an excellent attendance record, show an excellent attitude to learning and commitment to personal study they consistently exceed expected national average grade performance by significant margins. 

The King’s CofE Academy is proud to announce that it has achieved a ranking of 46th out of 120 Staffordshire schools for Attainment 8 in 2025, marking a significant improvement from 63rd place in 2024.

What is Attainment 8?
Attainment 8 is a national measure that reflects the average academic performance of secondary schools, based on pupils’ highest scores across eight government-approved GCSE subjects.

This achievement reflects the dedication and hard work of our students, staff, and the wider school community.

Looking Ahead:
We are committed to building on this success and aim for even higher achievements in 2026.

For more information on academic performance and school rankings, please visit the Department for Education’s school performance site.

Progress 8 is deemed to be a key measure of school performance by the government. It indicates a student's average progress in their best 8 GCSE examinations compared with the average progress for similar students nationally. A positive Progress 8 figure indicates that a student has done better than expected whilst a negative figure indicates that a student has done worse. 

For example, a student with a Progress 8 score of +1.5 has, on average, done better than similar students nationally by an average of one and a half GCSE grades in each of his best 8 GCSE examinations.

The data below shares with you the amazing progress that students can make here at The King's Church of England Academy. Not only do our students achieve national levels of performance in their GCSEs but, so often, they go far beyond this achieving one, two or even three GCSE grades above in the full range of curriculum subjects.

Our first student focused slide shows you a selection of our top performers. Each of these students has gained five or more GCSEs at the top grades of 5, 6, 7, 8 or 9: 

As we continue our school improvement journey to make The King's a centre of academic excellence we are delighted with student performance in subjects that, apart from English and Maths, are included in the English Baccalaureate (science, geography, history and French):

The final slide we would like to share with you reflects the impact of the significant work we have done to ensure that the curriculum meets the needs and aspirations of our students. The data shows that in subjects that students have opted to study they have made some of the very best progress: