Cranbourne
Secondary · Community school · Ages 11–16 · Basingstoke, Hampshire
Last distance offered · Year 7 2026
1.19 miles
Published by Hampshire County Council · offers on 2 March 2026
2019–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Cranbourne is a secondary school in Basingstoke, Hampshire for ages 11–16 (community school). Hampshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2019 to 2026 entry.
Cranbourne 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 |
|---|---|
| Year 7 2026 | 1.19 mi |
| Year 7 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2023 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2022 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2021 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2020 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2019 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- The Year 7 last distance in 2026 was 1.19 miles, the 9th shortest of 39 Hampshire secondary schools with a published last distance; the middle figure was 2.44 miles.
- 2024/25 GCSE English and maths, grade 5 or above: 42% of pupils (England 45%), the 5th highest of 9 schools (this one and the 8 nearest secondary schools in Hampshire).
- For Year 7 in 2026 there were 237 first-choice applications for 224 offers; 179 offers went to first-choice families, and 58 first-choice families were not offered a place.
- 27.4% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, compared with a middle figure of 19.3% across the 8 nearest secondary schools in Hampshire.
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
- Wessex Close, Basingstoke, RG21 3NP
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–16
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Hampshire
- Pupils on roll
- 1,088 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 27.4% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 16.6
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
No Ofsted grade Inspected 6 January 2026
Strengths
- “Pupils feel happy and safe at Cranbourne school.”
- “Where pupils need support they know where to go to get it.”
- “They typically receive the right support that they need.”
To improve
- “Pupils are not attending school as often as they should.”
- “The school has put in place appropriate strategies to improve attendance but these have not currently had the desired impact.”
- “However, whereas in some subjects teachers do this well, this is not consistently the case across the curriculum.”
Safeguarding: met
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 11 February 2026 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Exam results
| Measure | School | England |
|---|---|---|
| GCSE English and maths, grade 5 or above (2024/25) | 42% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 42.7 | 46 |
Department for Education school performance data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Year 7 entry: 237 first-preference applications, 224 offers in total, 179 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 secondary schools
Straight-line distance, in Hampshire.
- The Blue Coat School Basingstoke 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Brighton Hill Community School 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Bishop Challoner Catholic Secondary School 1.0 mi School remains Good (Improving) - S5 Next Last distance published
- The Costello School 1.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- The Vyne Community School 1.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Everest Community Academy 2.1 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Robert May's School 6.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- The Hurst School 7.8 mi Standards maintained Last distance published