Students
Highly popular, and with demand for places outstripping supply, the school has pupils drawn from 200 square rural miles covering a large area of South Lincolnshire and as far as Newark in Nottinghamshire. KSHS offers an extremely supportive environment, with special provision for the talented and gifted as well as those with special needs, and as a result unauthorised absences are extremely low (0.1%). A number of the pupils and staff have connections to the Royal Air Force since the school lies only a few miles from the RAF College at Cranwell.
The annual intake to Year 7 for Key Stage 3 is around 120 though in 2006 the number rose as a one-off to 150. In 2006-7 there were 844 girls on the roll.
The sixth form was previously joint with Sleaford's other schools: Carre's Grammar School, and St George's Academy, a mixed non-selective school. It was announced from September 2010 that Kesteven and Sleaford Selective Academy would no longer be part of the Sleaford Joint Sixth Form, but instead, have a sixth form of its own.
A number of the pupils are members of the National Academy for Gifted and Talented Youth (NAGTY), and represent the highest school membership for Lincolnshire.
Abi Titmuss, who since 2003 has achieved fame as a television personality and a model, attended the school from 1987 until 1994.
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