Harris Academy Kingswood, Basildon

In 2025, pupils at Harris Academy Kingswood averaged an Attainment 8 score of 42.1, the average grade across their best eight GCSEs. The average state school scored 45.9 in Essex and 46.8 across England.

33% passed English and maths at grade 5 or above, against 44% in Essex and 46% in England.

That is down from 43.6 in 2024.

Its most recent Progress 8 score, for 2024, was -0.26: pupils made below average progress compared with pupils nationally who started secondary school at the same level. Progress 8 was not published for 2025.

Disadvantaged pupils averaged an Attainment 8 of 35.7, against 48 for other pupils at the school - a gap of 12.3 points.

Pupils sat GCSEs in 29 subjects; after English and maths, the most popular were Combined Science, History and Geography.

For September 2026 entry, 399 families put Harris Academy Kingswood as their first choice and 1095 named it as one of their preferences, for 287 places offered. That is 1.4 first choices for every place. 150 families who put it first were not offered a place there.

First-choice demand has fallen from 480 in 2021 to 399 in 2026, while places went from 295 to 287.

Across Essex, 83% of families were offered their first-choice secondary school for 2026 entry, and 97% were offered one of the schools they named.

In 2025, families in Essex lodged 807 appeals against secondary school offers; 645 reached a hearing and 99 succeeded (15.3% of those heard).

The nearest other state secondary schools to Harris Academy Kingswood are De La Salle School (1.1 miles, Good, Attainment 8 41.8); The James Hornsby School (1.3 miles, Good, Attainment 8 38.9); The Basildon Lower Academy (1.5 miles, Requires improvement); and The Basildon Upper Academy (2.1 miles, Good, Attainment 8 28.7).

Harris Academy Kingswood's 2025 results were higher than all 3 of them.

Harris Academy Kingswood is one of 59 schools run by Harris Federation, an academy trust.

Across the trust's secondary schools, pupils averaged an Attainment 8 score of 51.3 in 2023/24, with a Progress 8 score of 0.48 (zero is the national average).

Of the 296 pupils who finished Year 11 in 2022/23, 73% stayed in education or training for at least two terms, including 58% to a further education college, 6% to an apprenticeship and 5% into work.

30.2% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (the average state school: 24.5%), and 15.1% speak English as an additional language (average: 18.5%), according to the 2025 school census.

The largest ethnic groups are White British (70%), Black (7%) and Mixed (6%).

In 2025, 148 pupils (9.9%) received SEN support and 56 (3.8%) had an education, health and care plan, against 15.6% and 3.9% at the average state school. The most common need among them is autism.

Harris Academy Kingswood employed 100 teachers in 2024, roughly one for every 15 pupils. Their average salary was £48,204.

Its 2026 funding allocation works out at £7,988 per pupil (£12.7 million in total), including £518,150 of pupil premium for disadvantaged pupils.

The nearest railway station is Basildon Rail Station, about 310 metres away (roughly a 4-minute walk).

7 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is The Knares (opposite), 240 metres away.

Measured by the 2025 English Indices of Deprivation, the neighbourhood Harris Academy Kingswood stands in is among the 50% least deprived neighbourhoods in England. This describes where the school is, not where its pupils live.

In August 2026, police recorded 398 crimes within a mile of the school, most often violence and sexual offences, shoplifting and anti-social behaviour. That is well above the typical figure around schools in Essex (98), as is usual near a town centre.

In 2023/24, Harris Academy Kingswood issued 146 suspensions, 9.7 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 2.3), and no permanent exclusions.

The primary schools closest to Harris Academy Kingswood are Kingswood Primary School and Nursery (0.3 miles), Chapel Hill Primary School & Nursery (0.5 miles), Lee Chapel Primary School (0.5 miles) and St Anne Line Catholic Infant School (0.6 miles). Admission does not depend on which primary a child attends unless the school's policy names feeder schools.