Graded inspection · Jun 2025 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther primary schools in Southampton
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 | |||
| Early years provision | 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 entry105 applications · 44 places offered · 44 named it first
- 2026 2.4; Southampton median median 1.9
- 2025 2.0; Southampton median median 1.9
- 2024 2.3; Southampton median median 2.1
- 2023 2.1; Southampton median median 2.1
- 2022 2.2; Southampton median median 2.1
- 2021 2.9; Southampton median median 2.0
- 2020 2.7; Southampton median median 2.2
- 2019 3.0; Southampton median median 1.9
- 2018 2.9; Southampton median median 2.1
- 2017 2.9; Southampton median median 2.0
- 2016 3.6; Southampton median median 2.1
- 2015 3.2; Southampton median median 2.3
- 2014 3.2; Southampton median median 2.3; as the previous school
- This school
- Southampton median
Dashed bars: as Wordsworth Primary School (URN 116126), the previous school.
Reception applications for September 2027 close 15 January 2027, 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 | 44 | 105 | 2.4 | 44 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2025 | 60 | 118 | 2.0 | 56 | 0.93 |
| Sep 2024 | 65 | 148 | 2.3 | 56 | 0.86 |
| Sep 2023 | 75 | 158 | 2.1 | 68 | 0.91 |
| Sep 2022 | 87 | 194 | 2.2 | 80 | 0.92 |
| Sep 2021 | 66 | 191 | 2.9 | 62 | 0.94 |
| Sep 2020 | 83 | 220 | 2.7 | 79 | 0.95 |
| Sep 2019 | 89 | 270 | 3.0 | 88 | 0.99 |
| Sep 2018 | 90 | 260 | 2.9 | 90 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2017 | 90 | 260 | 2.9 | 85 | 0.94 |
| Sep 2016 | 88 | 313 | 3.6 | 103 | 1.17 |
| Sep 2015 | 90 | 284 | 3.2 | 92 | 1.02 |
| Sep 2014 * | 90 | 292 | 3.2 | 103 | 1.14 |
How did pupils do in SATs?
DfE KS2 · 2024/25Reading 71% · Writing 60% · Maths 69% → all three 54% met the expected standard, End of Year 6
- This school
- Southampton median
- England median
Every year as a table
| Year | Expected standard | Higher standard | Reading score | Maths score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024/25 | 54% | 1% | 104 | 103 |
| 2023/24 | 49% | 0% | 102 | 103 |
| 2022/23 | 42% | 0% | 102 | 102 |
Subject results are published for the latest year only. Scaled scores run from 80 to 120.
Schools nearby
The 8 nearest primary schools in a straight line, in any local authority
- Wordsworth Primary and Nursery SchoolThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20252.4applications per place 54%met the SATs standard
- 0.6 km · SouthamptonGraded · no overall grade20251.8applications per place
- 0.6 km · SouthamptonRemains Good202348%met the SATs standard
- 0.7 km · SouthamptonRequires improvement20222.2applications per place 48%met the SATs standard
- 0.7 km · SouthamptonGraded · no overall grade20251.5applications per place 25%met the SATs standard
- 1.1 km · SouthamptonNot yet inspected
- 1.4 km · SouthamptonGraded · no overall grade20251.5applications per place 74%met the SATs standard
- 1.4 km · SouthamptonRemains Good202468%met the SATs standard
- 1.4 km · Southampton20262.4applications per place 19%met the SATs standard
- 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
- Primary
- URN · DfE number
- 141494 · 852/2452
- Capacity
- 600 pupils · 619 on roll
- Free school meals
- 37.5% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Nursery
- Has nursery classes
- Opened
- 1 October 2014
- Replaced
- Wordsworth Primary School (URN 116126)
- Address
- Victor Street, Shirley, Southampton, SO15 5LH
- Local authority
- Southampton
Data last changed 3 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources