About Us
Welcome from the Co-Principals
W e are pleased to welcome you to the Kings College website. Kings College is a unique school, the first privately managed state secondary school in the UK, concentrating on innovative curriculum design to promote high academic standards for students from the age of 11 to 18.Kings College prepares all of its students to play their part as highly skilled and adaptable individuals in a global community.
Kings is the only state school in the area to offer the 'gold standard ' alternative to A levels, the world-renowned International Baccalaureate post-16. Kings also offers the full National Curriculum, GCSE,specialist vocational courses post-age 14, and a unique combination of BTEC courses in the Sixth Form through our Vocational Diploma Programme.
Kings College opened in September 2000 with the task of regenerating a school which had been through a long period of significant decline. The success of the new school is clear. Examination results have increased from 10% passes at 5 or more grades A*-C at GCSE to its present rate of 73% and is still improving; attendance has improved significantly and now matches national averages; the roll has increased from 300 on opening to 900 at present; and, above all, there has been a significant shift in the way that the local and wider communities see the School. Guildford now truly has a School in Kings College of which it can be proud