Voluntary aided school · Redbridge
King Solomon High School
- Secondary
- Ages 11–18
- Jewish
- Sixth form
Term dates
Voluntary aided schools can set their own term dates. Many follow Redbridge council's dates, shown below as a guide, but check with the school, especially for INSET days.
2026/27
2027/28
Admissions
Places for Year 7 are applied for through your home council, not the school.
Apply for a secondary school place on GOV.UK
How places are given: as a Jewish school, it may give priority to children of that faith, then usually by distance. Check its admissions policy.
For the sixth form, apply to the school directly.
How many families applied: Year 7
For September 2026, 40 families put this school as their first choice, and 80 places were offered. 40 of the families who put it first got a place (100%).
| Entry | Places offered | Put it first | Got their first choice |
|---|---|---|---|
| September 2026 | 80 | 40 | 100% |
| September 2025 | 123 | 72 | 100% |
| September 2024 | 165 | 131 | 100% |
Offers made on national offer day, from the Department for Education. Waiting lists and appeals can change things later. The hardest schools to get into.
Ofsted inspection
Latest graded inspection, 14 May 2024. Overall: Requires improvement
- Quality of education
- Requires improvement
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Requires improvement
- Personal development
- Requires improvement
- Leadership and management
- Requires improvement
- Sixth form
- Requires improvement
From Ofsted's published inspection data (Open Government Licence). Report cards and older grades use different scales, so they can't be compared directly.
About and location
- Type
- Voluntary aided school
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–18
- Pupils
- 636 (capacity 1160)
- Gender
- Mixed
- Religious character
- Jewish
- Phone
- 02084981300
- Address
- Forest Road, Barkingside, Ilford, IG6 3HB
- Website
- kshsonline.uk
School details from the Department for Education's register of schools (Open Government Licence). Report a correction.