Crestwood Community School
Secondary · Community school · Ages 11–16 · Eastleigh, Hampshire
Last distance offered · Year 7 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From Hampshire County Council · offers on 2 March 2026
2019–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Crestwood Community School is a secondary school in Eastleigh, Hampshire for ages 11–16 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 7 February 2024. Hampshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2019 to 2026 entry.
Crestwood Community 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 |
|---|---|
| Year 7 2026 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| 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
- In 2024/25, 27% got grade 5 or above in GCSE English and maths (England 45%), the lowest among this school and the 7 of the 8 nearest secondary schools in Hampshire that have results.
- Every applicant was offered a Year 7 place in 2026, but places had run out in both 2023 and 2025, when a last distance was published.
- Year 7 2026: 219 first-choice applications for 234 offers, with every first-choice family offered a place and 15 offers going to families who ranked it second or lower.
- 36.5% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 20.1% 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
- Shakespeare Road, Boyatt Wood, Eastleigh, SO50 4FZ
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–16
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Hampshire
- Pupils on roll
- 1,478 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 36.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 15.2
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 7 February 2024
Strengths
- “There is a welcoming, friendly atmosphere at Crestwood.”
- “Each campus is popular in the local area, with a strong sense of community.”
- “Pupils like and trust their teachers.”
To improve
- “A few pupils sometimes stray off task, which limits their learning.”
- “Although published examination results in 2023 were not strong overall, there were improvements in a number of subjects.”
- “However, sometimes work is not matched closely enough to pupils’ needs, being either too easy or too difficult.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 18 March 2024 (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) | 27% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 38.1 | 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: 219 first-preference applications, 234 offers in total, 219 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 Toynbee School 0.8 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Thornden School 1.2 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Wyvern College 2.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Wildern School 4.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Deer Park School 4.8 mi Good Last distance published
- The Mountbatten School 4.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Kings' School 5.6 mi Good Last distance published
- The Romsey School 6.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published