Alderwood School
All-through · Community school · Ages 4–16 · Aldershot, Hampshire
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From Hampshire County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
Year 7 2026: Every applicant was offered a place
2019–2025 trend 🔒
Alderwood School is an all-through school in Aldershot, Hampshire for ages 4–16 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Not judged, from the inspection on 15 October 2024. Hampshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception and Year 7 2019 to 2026 entry.
Alderwood School catchment area: last distance offered
Parents often call this the catchment area: it's how far from the school the last child offered a place lived. It changes every year.
| Entry | Last distance offered |
|---|---|
| Reception 2026 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| Year 7 2026 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2023 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2023 | 🔒 With a pass |
And 8 earlier figures.
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- Every applicant was offered a place in both Reception and Year 7 in 2026, but Reception places ran out in all 6 earlier years.
- Reception 2026 had 63 first-choice applications for 64 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 1 offer went to a family who ranked it second or lower.
- 1,471 pupils were on roll in January 2026, and 30.3% of pupils are eligible for free school meals.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Hampshire schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Belle Vue Road, Aldershot, GU12 4RZ
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- All-through
- Ages
- 4–16
- Council
- Hampshire
- Pupils on roll
- 1,471 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 30.3% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 15.7
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Not judged Inspected 15 October 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils enjoy coming to Alderwood School.”
- “There is a strong sense of community here, and one that is fully inclusive of all pupils, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND).”
- “Pupils across the age ranges know how to treat each other with kindness, and relationships between staff and pupils are positive and warm.”
To improve
- “However, this is not the case in the secondary phase, where pupils’ recall is more variable.”
- “Here, pupils do not achieve well enough and, while there has been work by the school to tackle this, it has not yet made enough of a difference to what pupils know and remember.”
- “However, this same practice is not as precise in the senior phase.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 13 January 2025 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Exam results
| Measure | School | England |
|---|---|---|
| Key stage 2 · reading, writing and maths, expected standard (2024/25) | 70% | 62% |
| GCSE English and maths, grade 5 or above (2024/25) | 40% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 42.2 | 46 |
Department for Education school performance data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 63 first-preference applications, 64 offers in total, 63 offers to first-preference applicants.
- 2026 Year 7 entry: 65 first-preference applications, 117 offers in total, 65 offers to first-preference applicants.
Department for Education, school-level applications and offers, figures on national offer day. Earlier years are in the pass.
Nearby special, independent and other schools
Straight-line distance, in Hampshire.
- Rowhill School 1.2 mi No Ofsted grade
- Napier School 1.8 mi No Ofsted grade
- Salesian College 2.2 mi No Ofsted grade
- Farnborough Hill 3.6 mi No Ofsted grade
- Henry Tyndale School 3.7 mi School remains Outstanding
- Samuel Cody School 3.9 mi No Ofsted grade
- St Nicholas' School 4.7 mi No Ofsted grade
- Hawley Woods School 5.0 mi No Ofsted grade