In September 1987, Kingstone was formed by the amalgamation of Broadway Grammar School with adjacent Charter Comprehensive during the restructure of the British education system.

In September 2012 it amalgamated with Holgate School to form Horizon Community College based at a new site on Dodworth road.

The Kingstone School buildings were demolished in late 2012 to make way for a housing development.

The acting joint heads were I Ellam and P Gallagher for 2011–12, the final academic year of the school's existence, until it merged with Holgate and became Horizon Community College Kingstone achieved consistently good GCSE results for the area, with 60% of the class of 2000–2007 achieving GCSE grades A*–C.

Kingstone School was home to the Kingstone Concert Band (formerly Kingstone School Concert Band), which played at Blackpool Opera House, Disneyland Paris, Efteling theme park in the Netherlands, and which in April 2006 toured Barcelona promoting Concert bands in the area, visiting local deprived schools and entertaining them with music, the band also visited the theme park, PortAventura Park in Salou, Spain.