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Established
  
1921

Principal
  
Richard Clutterbuck

Phone
  
+44 117 992 7127

Founded
  
1921

Gender
  
Mixed-sex education

Type
  
All-Through Academy

DfE number
  
803/4003

Capacity
  
1,200

Number of students
  
694

Trust
  
Cabot Learning Federation

Location
  
Brook Road Kingswood Gloucestershire BS15 4JT England

Address
  
Brook Rd, Kingswood, Bristol BS15 4JT, UK

Motto
  
'In Pursuit of Excellence'

Similar
  
John Cabot Academy, Downend School, Bristol Brunel Academy, Mangotsfi School, Sir Bernard Lovell School

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King's Oak Academy, formerly known as Kingsfield School and Kingswood Grammar School, is a Mathematics and Computing College located in Kingswood, Bristol, England. Ofsted rated it a "Good" school in 2013.

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Admissions

It is located just within the unitary authority of South Gloucestershire which borders Bristol. The school is a mixed comprehensive providing education for 712 students as of January 2012, predominantly from a catchment area of around 3 miles (4.8 km).

It is situated at the roundabout of the A420 and the A4174 (Bristol ring road), between Warmley Hill and Warmley.

Grammar school

The school was founded in 1921 as Kingswood Grammar School (KGS), a co-educational grammar school when administered by the Gloucestershire Education Committee.

On 15 October 1946, 13-year-old Robert Hayes of Kingswood died at Cossham Memorial Hospital after being injured at the school when playing with blank cartridges he had found at an ammunition dump. His right hand was blown off and he had other injuries to his body.

In the 1960s it had around 850 boys and girls, with 250 in the sixth form.

Comprehensive

By 1970 it was a comprehensive school, and was renamed "Kingsfield School".

Academy

Kingsfield School was officially rebranded as King's Oak Academy in September 2011.

Its motto is now "In Pursuit of Excellence".

Blue jumpers and red ties (formerly brown and blue) are worn, with coloured stripes according to house colour.

Kingswood Rugby Club

Kingswood RFC Old Boys was founded in 1954/55 by a group of pupils from Kings Oak Academy (formerly Kingswood Grammar School).

Notable alumni

  • Anttix, musician
  • David Drew, former Member of Parliament for Stroud
  • Adrian Harris, actor
  • Bernard Lovell, OBE, FRS, Knight of the Realm, physicist and radio astronomer
  • Richard Scudamore, Chief Executive, Premier League
  • Colin Pillinger, CBE FRS FRAS FRGS, planetary scientist
  • Robert Willis, Dean of Canterbury Cathedral
  • References

    King's Oak Academy Wikipedia