| Kineton High School | |
| Coordinates: | 52.1566°N -1.5023°W |
| Motto: | Achieving personal best |
| Established: | 1957 |
| Head Label: | Headteacher |
| Head: | Helen Bridge |
| Address: | Banbury Road |
| Postcode: | CV35 0JX |
| Ofsted: | yes |
| Dfeno: | 937/4110 |
| Urn: | 147432 |
| Enrolment: | 1090 |
| Lower Age: | 11 |
| Upper Age: | 18 |
| Houses: | Adlington, Ainslie, Hoy and Redgrave |
| Colours: | Black, Red and White. |
| Website: | http://www.kinetonhighschool.org.uk/ |
Kineton High School is a mixed secondary school located in South Warwickshire, England within the village of Kineton. It is a non-selective academy school with a sixth form.
Prior to the school's construction, the village school had moved from premises to premises to meet the growth in enrolment.[1] Students from Kineton and surrounding villages transferred to the newly built school when it opened. The school building has remained largely the same since then. A swimming pool was built with help from the local community in 1972 with money raised by students doing a sponsored walk. In October 1998, a cobweb was found to be covering the 4.54 hectare playing field, giving it the world record for the largest spider web outdoors.[2] Specialist Sports College status was obtained in 2003.[3] [4] The school celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2008.[5] There was a fire in the sports centre in 2009.[6] An artificial turf pitch for use in P.E. was built on the field in the early 2010s. A new science block was completed in 2017, replacing seven dilapidated mobile classrooms, the most significant development at the school in 40 years.[7] The school became an academy in September 2019, joining Stowe Valley Multi Academy Trust, having been a community school run by Warwickshire County Council previously.[8] BBC Midlands Today interviewed students for a report on schools staying open during the COVID-19 pandemic in November 2020.[9]
There have been six headteachers since the school opened:
| Headteacher | Duration | |
|---|---|---|
| Mr M H Turner | 1958–1978 | |
| John M Baker | 1978–1990? | |
| Paul Logan | 1990?–2002[10] | |
| Julia Morris | 2002–2014 | |
| Siona Robson | 2014–2018 | |
| Helen Bridge | 2018–present[11] |
The school is to be rebuilt after being named one of the first 50 schools chosen as part of the Government's School Rebuilding Programme.[12] All the school buildings are set to be demolished with the exception of the science block, which was completed in 2017, and replaced by a new three-storey teaching block and sports hall.[13]
In 2013 the school was in the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust list of top 20 per cent of schools for high attainment in end of Key Stage 4 and the Financial Times’ top 1,000 schools list for post 16 performance.[3]
The school is partnered with Sanghamitta Balika Vidyalaya, a girls' school in Sri Lanka.[14]