Students at King’s High celebrated record-breaking results in 2026, with more than 35% of all grades awarded at the highest possible grade 9.
Year 13 students secured superb outcomes and went on to take up places at leading universities and competitive degree apprenticeships. The majority gained places at their first-choice institutions, including many within the Russell Group.
Our students progressed to an impressive range of courses, reflecting both academic ambition and breadth of interest. Destinations in 2025 included Medicine, Law, Architecture, Motorsport Engineering, Veterinary Medicine, Archaeology and Anthropology, Dentistry, Neuroscience and many more. Universities attended included Oxford, Cambridge, Imperial College London, Durham, St Andrews and Edinburgh.
Excellence was evident across the curriculum. In the Extended Project Qualification, 92% of students achieved A* or A grades. At A Level, Art, English Literature, Computer Science and French saw a high proportion of top grades, reflecting both student commitment and expert teaching.
King’s High students also secured a growing number of prestigious degree apprenticeships in 2025, earning places with leading organisations such as Jaguar Land Rover, HSBC, UCB, Leonardo, Williams Racing F1, Arcadis and Morgan Sindall.
Destinations
The leavers’ destinations and pathways of our Upper Sixth students are deeply impressive. Over the last five years an average of 88% of our students have gone on to their first-choice university, with an average of 77% of students taking up places at prestigious Russell Group institutions. Each year between 5 and 10% of the cohort take places for Medicine and Allied Sciences. Between a third and a quarter of our cohort apply for places at Oxford or Cambridge universities, with up to 10% achieving offers. Normally, around half of students go on to STEM courses with the other half studying arts, humanities and language degrees.
A number of our students take up exciting degree apprenticeships and, in recent years, these have included apprenticeships with Deloitte, Dyson Institute of Engineering and Technology, Santander and Barclays. Some of our students go on to global universities and, in recent years, these have included a number of North American and European institutions including McGill and British Colombia in Canada and the University of Sophia in Bulgaria.
Many go off to specialist schools and conservatoires including the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, Central St Martin’s, and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts (RADA). Our pupils are bold and ambitious in their choices with recent destinations including The National Centre for Circus Arts, Oxford Aviation Academy, The British and Irish Modern Music Institute (BIMM), and The New College of the Humanities.
