Graded inspection · Mar 2024 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther secondary schools in Hampshire
What did Ofsted find?
Ofsted data to 30 September 2026| Area | Outstanding | Good | Requires improvement | Inadequate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality of education | Good | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Good | |||
| Personal development | Good | |||
| Leadership and management | Good |
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About these grades
Ofsted's report cards (from November 2025) grade each area on five steps and give no overall grade. Earlier grades come from a different framework; Ofsted says the two cannot be compared, so they are never converted here. Ofsted: "We normally inspect schools every 4 years or at any time if we have concerns." Methodology.
How hard is it to get a place?
DfE · Sept 2026 entry268 applications · 176 places offered · 148 named it first
- 2026 1.5; Hampshire median median 1.9
- 2025 1.3; Hampshire median median 1.8
- 2024 1.5; Hampshire median median 1.9
- 2023 1.5; Hampshire median median 1.8
- 2022 1.4; Hampshire median median 1.7
- 2021 1.3; Hampshire median median 1.7
- 2020 1.3; Hampshire median median 1.7
- 2019 1.4; Hampshire median median 1.6
- 2018 1.5; Hampshire median median 1.7
- 2017 1.4; Hampshire median median 1.7
- 2016 1.4; Hampshire median median 1.8
- 2015 1.5; Hampshire median median 1.8
- 2014 1.6; Hampshire median median 1.9
- This school
- Hampshire median
Year 7 applications for September 2027 close 31 October 2026, through your council
How this is measured
Applications per place: every application naming the school at any preference, divided by places offered on National Offer Day. It is not your chance of a place. Methodology.
| Entry | Places | Applications | Per place | First preferences | First-pref. ratio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2026 | 176 | 268 | 1.5 | 148 | 0.84 |
| Sep 2025 | 177 | 236 | 1.3 | 133 | 0.75 |
| Sep 2024 | 208 | 317 | 1.5 | 198 | 0.95 |
| Sep 2023 | 205 | 303 | 1.5 | 195 | 0.95 |
| Sep 2022 | 189 | 260 | 1.4 | 168 | 0.89 |
| Sep 2021 | 196 | 262 | 1.3 | 176 | 0.90 |
| Sep 2020 | 192 | 246 | 1.3 | 170 | 0.89 |
| Sep 2019 | 181 | 247 | 1.4 | 164 | 0.91 |
| Sep 2018 | 134 | 205 | 1.5 | 129 | 0.96 |
| Sep 2017 | 191 | 260 | 1.4 | 188 | 0.98 |
| Sep 2016 | 155 | 214 | 1.4 | 131 | 0.85 |
| Sep 2015 | 140 | 203 | 1.5 | 127 | 0.91 |
| Sep 2014 | 132 | 217 | 1.6 | 131 | 0.99 |
How did pupils do at GCSE?
DfE KS4 · 2025/26 provisionalEvery year as a table
| Year | Pupils | Attainment 8 | 5+ Eng & maths | 4+ Eng & maths | Progress 8 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 (prov.) | 199 | 40.1 | 36% | 61% | – |
| 2024/25 | 185 | 39.6 | 38% | 63% | – |
| 2023/24 | 182 | 39.0 | 35% | 58% | −0.24 |
| 2022/23 | 141 | 38.6 | 31% | 55% | −0.48 |
Progress 8 is not published for 2024/25 or 2025/26: those pupils had no key stage 2 tests in 2020 and 2021.
Schools nearby
The 8 nearest secondary schools in a straight line, in any local authority
- The Cowplain SchoolThis schoolThis schoolGood20241.5applications per place 40.1Attainment 8
- 2.7 km · HampshireGraded · no overall grade20241.7applications per place 47.7Attainment 8
- 2.7 km · Hampshire20262.2applications per place 48.9Attainment 8
- 2.9 km · HampshireGraded · no overall grade20243.4applications per place 41.3Attainment 8
- 3.0 km · Hampshire20261.3applications per place 27.7Attainment 8
- 3.7 km · HampshireRemains Good20232.5applications per place 43.8Attainment 8
- 4.2 km · HampshireSpecial measures Graded · no overall grade20251.3applications per place 34.3Attainment 8
- 5.7 km · PortsmouthGraded · no overall grade20251.8applications per place 42.4Attainment 8
- 5.9 km · Hampshire20261.4applications per place 36.5Attainment 8
- Exceptional
- Strong standard
- Expected standard
- Needs attention
- Urgent improvement
- Does not apply
Eight dots, one per area: inclusion, curriculum, achievement, attendance, personal development, early years, post-16, leadership. Colours follow Ofsted's report card scale; Schoolfile is independent of Ofsted.
School details
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- URN · DfE number
- 138038 · 850/4110
- Trust
- The Cowplain School
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Capacity
- 1,080 pupils · 993 on roll
- Free school meals
- 30.7% of pupils (England median 23%)
- SEN provision
- Resourced provision
- Opened
- 1 April 2012
- Replaced
- Cowplain Community School (URN 116410)
- Address
- Hart Plain Avenue, Cowplain, Waterlooville, PO8 8RY
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources