King's Oak Academy
King's Oak Academy, formerly Kingsfield School and Kingswood Grammar School, is a Mathematics and Computing College located in Kingswood in Bristol, England. The education authority Ofsted rated it as "good" in 2018.
Location and admissions
The school is located just within the unitary authority of South Gloucestershire, which borders Bristol. It is situated at the roundabout of the A420 and the A4174, between Warmley Hill and Warmley.It is a mixed comprehensive school providing education for 950 students, predominantly from a catchment area of around.
History
Grammar school
The school was founded in 1921 as Kingswood Grammar School, a co-educational grammar school administered by the Gloucestershire Education Committee.On 15 October 1946, 13-year-old Robert Hayes of Kingswood died at Cossham Memorial Hospital after being injured at the school when playing with blank cartridges he had found at an ammunition dump. His right hand was blown off and he had other injuries to his body.
In the 1960s the school had around 850 boys and girls, with 250 in the sixth form.