Park Community School
All-through · Community school · Ages 4–16 · Havant, Hampshire
Last distance offered · Year 7 2026
1.09 miles
Published by Hampshire County Council · offers on 2 March 2026
2019–2025 trend 🔒
Park Community School is an all-through school in Havant, Hampshire for ages 4–16 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 3 March 2022. Hampshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2019 to 2026 entry.
Park 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 | 1.09 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 last child offered a Year 7 place in 2026 lived 1.09 miles from the school, nearer than in 2025, and the 2026 figure was the shortest of the 4 years with a published distance.
- Every applicant was offered a Year 7 place in 3 of the 7 years with a published outcome.
- For Year 7 entry in 2026 there were 199 first-choice applications for 188 offers; 180 offers went to first-choice families, and 19 first-choice families were not offered a place.
- 62.5% of the 1,006 pupils on roll 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
- Middle Park Way, Leigh Park, Park Community School, Havant, PO9 4BU
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- All-through
- Ages
- 4–16
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Hampshire
- Pupils on roll
- 1,006 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 62.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 14.2
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 3 March 2022
Strengths
- “Park Community School lives up to its motto of being much more than just a school.”
- “Pupils enjoy extensive opportunities to find what they love.”
- “Enrichment activities, including learning to cook or caring for farm animals, form an integral part of every pupil’s curriculum offer.”
To improve
- “In some lessons, however, work does not provide enough challenge to ensure that pupils apply their learning in more complex and demanding ways.”
- “Despite this improvement, too few pupils currently reach the expected standard.”
- “Attendance remains low overall, but continues to improve, particularly for pupils with additional vulnerability.”
Safeguarding: met
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 10 September 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) | 14% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 28.3 | 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: 199 first-preference applications, 188 offers in total, 180 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.
- Prospect School 0.3 mi Not judged
- Riverside Community Special School 1.2 mi Good
- The Waterloo School 1.4 mi Standards maintained
- Releasing Potential School 1.4 mi No Ofsted grade
- Jubilee School 1.8 mi No Ofsted grade
- Bere Clinic School 2.5 mi No Ofsted grade
- Rachel Madocks School 2.5 mi School remains Good
- Glenwood School 2.9 mi Good