Katharine Lady Berkeley’s School is a highly successful 11-18 mixed comprehensive with 1510 students on roll including 280 in the sixth form.
The school has a long history. It was founded on 20th October 1384 by Katharine, the wife of Lord Berkeley, and has operated continuously since that date. Our school nestles under the southern tip of the Cotswold escarpment, between the town of Wotton-under-Edge and the village of Kingswood in Gloucestershire.
At Katharine Lady Berkeley’s School, we do all that we can to make sure that our students want to come to school, that they are happy and safe in their school life, have good friends and feel confident that they can do their very best. These essential components, combined with superb teaching, produce the vibrant and inspiring environment that enables our students to be successful. They learn effectively, gain their best possible results and receive excellent preparation for their life beyond school.
DownloadMany Year 11 students have gained excellent GCSE results in their examinations this summer. This was the first year that the new, far more challenging, GCSE examinations in English and mathematics were taken. Nonetheless, over 70% of students achieved 5 or more passes at Grade C or above, including the equivalent grade 4 or above…
Year 13 students have gained superb A Level results this summer. The headline statistics are as follows: 34.7% at grades A* and A 66.3% at grades A* to B 88.4% at grades A* to C These grades reflect the hard work and commitment of the students and their teachers. They also reflect the outstanding provision…
Congratulations to Ellis Brewer in Year 8 who has progressed through to the Junior Mathematics Olympiad run by the UK Mathematics Trust. Around 260,000 pupils across the country were entered for the Junior Mathematics Competition and, of these, approximately 1,100 are invited to take part in the Olympiad. In fact, Ellis gained a Merit in…
After welcoming the French students to Wotton two months ago, 25 students from KLB went to Bois-Le-Roi – a familiar name, as it means Kingswood in French – in the south of Paris, in order to discover the famous Forest of Fontainebleau but also, of course, the capital of France. After three days, our students…
