Quintin Kynaston Community Academy
| Type | Academy |
|---|---|
| Headteacher | Alex Atherton |
| Location |
Marlborough Hill St John's Wood Greater London NW8 0NL England Coordinates: 51°32′16″N 0°10′37″W / 51.5378°N 0.1770°W |
| DfE number | 213/4295 |
| DfE URN | 137646 Tables |
| Ofsted | Reports Pre-academy reports |
| Students | 1312 |
| Gender | Mixed |
| Ages | 11–18 |
| Colours | Pale blue |
| Website | qk |
Quintin Kynaston (QK) is a secondary school in the St John's Wood area of north London, England. It was created in 1969 by merging two pre-existing schools—Quintin grammar school and Kynaston comprehensive school—both of which had been constructed almost side by side on the same site and opened at the same time, September 1956.
The merged school of 1969 was called Quintin Kynaston School. It became a Specialist Technology College in 2001, a Foundation School in 2008, and an Academy in November 2011, keeping its name throughout as Quintin Kynaston School until 2015, when the school renamed itself Quintin Kynaston.
Quintin Kynaston was rated 'outstanding' by Ofsted in two previous inspections, in 2008 and December 2011, but lost its 'outstanding' rating during the most recent Ofsted visit in September 2 014. The school was judged as 'requires improvement' because standards are not consistently in line with or above the national average in all subjects. The majority of the individual judgements are ‘good’, including leadership and management, behaviour and safety and sixth form.
Its new building opened to students on 12 January 2015 and was designed by van Heyningen and Haward Architects. The building is situated on Marlborough Hill next to the west side of the A41 in the north of the borough of Westminster in St John's Wood, close to the boundary with the Borough of Camden, and just south of South Hampstead railway station and the junction with the B509.
In March 2015 QK received unwelcome publicity with the revelation that Mohammed Emwazi, the ISIL killer who was portrayed in the media as "Jihadi John", had been a student at the school, leaving it in 2006.
Quintin school was founded in 1886 by Quintin Hogg (grandfather of the mid-20th-century politician of the same name) as the Polytechnic Secondary School, part of Regent Street Polytechnic. Named the Polytechnic Boys' Day School from 1886–1919, it was a voluntary aided school.
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