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The King David High School, Manchester

Comprehensive

National rank

203

287=

Rank last year

68.2^%

A-level

38.5^%

GCSE

Need to know

Head teacher Tracy Basger

Attendance 92.5%

Gender of entry Mixed

Send pupils* 25.4% *Special educational needs and disabilities

Total pupils 787

Pupils on free school meals 19.0%

Progress 8

Progress 8 is a measure of the development a school cohort/pupils makes from year 6 to year 11. The data used is from 2024. There will be no KS2 updates for 2025 or 2026 due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The government is consulting on an improved version of Progress 8 and Attainment 8

WELL ABOVE AVERAGE

Our methodology

Results

Grade

22.7

21.5

A*/A

44.2

A*-B

68.2

Grade

9/8

15.5

9/8/7

38.5

What the school inspection says

“Pupils’ mutual respect, and their willingness to help each other out, underpins the strong feeling of community at The King David High School. Pupils are taught to be optimistic about their futures. They learn how to find solutions to the challenges that they may encounter. Pupils, and students in the sixth form, benefit from a rich, broad curriculum that sets them up well to accomplish their future goals. Pupils enjoy their learning. Most pupils live up to their teachers’ high expectations of achievement and attain strong academic outcomes. Students in the sixth form achieve impressive A-level results. … Pockets of pupils’ disengaged behaviour go unchallenged, and some pupils are late to lessons. .. Quality of education, Personal development, Leadership and management, and Sixth form provision were deemed to be good.”

Inspection

2023

In detail *

Read the full report

*Ofsted no longer makes an overall effectiveness judgment in inspections of state-funded schools. A five-point grading scale, including a new “exceptional” grade was introduced in November 2025.

About the school

King David High School is an Orthodox Jewish academy educating 800 boys and girls. The school, as it describes, is “committed to fostering a vibrant and holistic educational environment that integrates high academic standards, good practice, religious intent, emotional wellbeing, and experiential Jewish learning, both formal and informal”.
In 2023 Ofsted’s report found that the school requires improvement. When Pikuach, the Jewish schools inspection service, visited in 2024, it found that “students learn in a positive environment, allowing them to focus on their Jewish learning in an atmosphere of respect and inclusion”.
Extracurricular activities include basketball, mindfulness and Scrabble club.
MedSoc supports students who wish to pursue a career in medicine, veterinary medicine or dentistry. In addition to guest speakers events, they meet fortnightly to discuss the latest in medical science, the NHS, different university courses and how best to prepare for the Ucat and Bmat (biomedical admissions tests).

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admin@kdhigh.co.uk

Telephone

0161 740 7248

Website

kdhs.org.uk

Address

Eaton Road, Higher Crumpsall, Manchester, M8 5DY

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