State schools in Aylesbury

What report are you after exactly?

Their most recent Ofsted will be published on their website.

does anyone have latest report for the kingsbrook pls? is it still a bad school?
need latest reco regarding the school since these feed here are 2025 and their latest offsted seem good

I haven't heard much about Kingsbury. Colet is highly regarded, although having had 2 girls go through, it's had it's peak. That said, both had a good time there with lots of support.
Risborough is improving from where it was, my DC left there in 2020.

Listening to Guide parents (I'm a Guide leader) the Grange is going up in people's views and is more in demand. Also AVA. I have Guides who are happy at St Michael's however their experience isn't necessarily the same as anyone else's.

I always recommend visiting, every child is different and they're the one studying there.

Any recent reviews about kingsbrook school in Aylesbury? We live in kingsbrook just wondering which other schools can we practically consider ? Any suggestions ??

I am assuming the The Kingsbrook school is now very good and tending towards outstanding

Oh thank you so much, that is really reassuring, was starting to get worry moving to Kingbrook because of the school.

These discussions were from March '24. I believe Kingsbrook have made great strides in the past few terms.

Interesting to read the feedback on The Kingsbrook School, I was just starting to fall in love with the school reading all their information around character, co-curriculum and how good they claimed to be in developing kids and belongingto a trust that helps them compete with the likes of Henry Flyods. Woul de great to understand more on the overly positive they have on their website vs. reality especially being a new school of two years old. Any more feedback on the school would be great.

How strange they are over subscribed for year 7 September 2025 my grandson could not get in and is on waiting list

Declined? As in it's outside of your catchment and it's oversubscribed? Can you put them on the waiting list?

@Foxesandsquirrels

Unfortunately, my child has been declined from it, as we enrolled her later than others did - aswell as that we assumed the new school (TKS) would be better. However, a few of my friends children attend AVA, everyone has said positive things about the school to what Ive seen.

@iguessyoullneverknow I've heard really good things about AVA, could you move there?

For the love of god himself, do not send your child to Kingsbrook school. As someone else has said, it is full of vile students which no other school would be willing to take. There is an appalling amount of supply teachers, which they are called according to my daughter - they are deprived of staff, and half of them refuse to come into school. Alongside this, the fact which hardly any of the supplies can speak a word of English. A majority of the higher echelon staff's attitude is disgusting, utterly awful in particular; in addition to the horrendous management of the school overall, leading to poor staff communication, and leaving students extremely unheard. This stresses both me, likely the teachers, and my child especially. Please - do not work here, nor enroll your child here. There are literal supply teachers whom have left midday from how awful the students were, in reference to how incompetent other teachers were trying to assist them, disregarding their pleas for assistance. allowing the class to continuously do whatever they want for the entire hour. Truly, the most undeveloped school I have ever seen, and I would genuinely do anything just to go back in time, and have my child in a different school - your best option for Aylesbury would be the Grange, unfortunately. It's not a great school; but if you'd like your child to recieve a genuinely decent education, consider it.

Hope I'm not too late to this discussion, regardless however; I hope this helps someone around or in Aylesbury trying to pick a school. I quote again - if you want your child a good education, Kingsbrook should not even be contemplated.

Avoid Kingsbrook. They are desperate for pupils to make up numbers, will take anyone, are full of children no other school will take. Bullying is rife. I feel sorry for the staff, but definitely a school to avoid.

Have sent you a pm

@DibbleDooDah I know there is, not so much when my DD went to primary (she went to a primary where for several years no one passed and the primary itself went into special measures when DD was there). DD wasn't tutored, though I think a couple of kids in her class were. I imagine in Bedgrove and the villages the amount of tutoring would be far higher. It's unfair, but luckily both mine passed without tutoring as I've never been able to afford it.

There is a new primary and secondary school on kingsbrook estate. The secondary only currently has year 7s and 8s as opened last year so can't comment on their exam success yet.

My son is at the Grange and doing fine. It seems to be run well, but clearly is not in the same league academically as the grammar schools (because the more academic kids go there instead of the secondary moderns).

It really depends what your child will need from a school, grammar wouldn't have been right for my ds, but I do wish there were smaller options available as all the secondaries are so big and busy, not helped by the funding crisis in education limiting resources in staff and equipment. (Again the grammars tend to have better resources, maybe due to fundraising and alumni donations?)

I think people must be using 'secondaries' as shorthand for 'secondary modern schools'? 'Grammar schools' and Secondary Modern schools' being two of the three types of secondary school (the generic term for the phase following on from primary schools - and yes, I know some areas did / still do have first / middle/ high school systems, but that's getting a bit too complicated) in the Tripartite system brought in under the 1944 Education Act.

Eta, sorry, OP, can't help with schools in Bucks, though, I'm afraid. Friends living there are not in Aylesbury and either have no current school aged children, or any at all.

@whichspidermummy I’m from one of the villages a few miles from Aylesbury, I didn’t realise the terminology would be so different!

I didn’t even realise there was actually a difference between comps and secondaries to be honest, I assumed they were both just generic terms for non-selective schools. Though having gone to ‘The’ High School I do find it a little strange when people refer to a random secondary as a high school!

@whichspidermummy There’s an enormous amount of tutoring within Bucks itself!!!!!!! My DD was the only one in her class who DIDN’T have a tutor.

Is 6th form entry still possible? It's how my brother and I got in without having ever sat the 12 plus (as I think it was then) because we were just on the wrong side of the county line. I don't think we'd have gone to decent universities if we hadn't changed schools.

@DibbleDooDah A lot do get in out of area. I didn't realise that some take it as a practice paper!

I know children from Dunstable going to grammars in Aylesbury. I don't blame the parents, but I do feel for children in Aylesbury who have to score higher and higher, due to the tutored children pushing the scores up.

@Archana2906 not sure whether you saw my post above my one on MK? I knew you specifically wanted views on Aylesbury schools :)

@TheFlis I've lived in Aylesbury all my life (54 years), I went to a secondary school, no one I know called them comps, it may be different outside, I live in a 'rubbish' estate in Aylesbury! I do know one woman who calls them comps (and high school - which made me congratulate her DD for passing her 11+ as she had her heart set on Aylesbury High School, when she got The Grange)!

It would be better to have comps I suppose, but I think it would disadvantage children like DD and DS, as I can't afford to move near a 'good' school, so passing the 11+ was their only way of getting a good education (and no neither of them were tutored....I couldn't afford it - but my secondary school gave a secondary education experience I'm glad they avoided).