The Arnewood School
Secondary · Academy converter · Ages 11–18 · New Milton, 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 🔒
The Arnewood School is a secondary school in New Milton, Hampshire for ages 11–18 (academy converter). Hampshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2019 to 2026 entry.
The Arnewood 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
- Every applicant was offered a Year 7 place in 2026, as at 26 of the 65 other Hampshire secondary schools with a published Year 7 2026 outcome.
- 22% got grade 5 or above in GCSE English and maths in 2024/25 (England 45%), the lowest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest secondary schools in Hampshire.
- In 2026, Year 7 had 96 first-choice applications for 103 offers, 0.9 first choices per offer, the 29th lowest of 66 Hampshire secondary schools.
- 27.4% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 22.5% 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
- Gore Road, New Milton, BH25 6RS
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–18
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Hampshire
- Pupils on roll
- 839 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 27.4% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 15
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
No Ofsted grade Inspected 17 March 2026
Strengths
- “The school's values of ambition, success and together are the foundations of pupils' experience at The Arnewood School.”
- “Pupils recognise the changes that have happened at the school to improve what it is like to be pupil at Arnewood.”
- “They relish the opportunity to learn a broad curriculum that prepares them for their next steps.”
To improve
- “Over time, pupils have not achieved as well in national assessments as their peers.”
- “This is not as embedded in all curriculum areas.”
- “Over time, pupils have not achieved as well as they should in national tests.”
Safeguarding: met
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 18 May 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) | 22% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 37.6 | 46 |
| A level average grade (2024/25) | C- | B- |
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: 96 first-preference applications, 103 offers in total, 96 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.
- Priestlands School 4.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Ringwood School Academy 8.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Applemore College 12.8 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Hounsdown School 13.0 mi Good Last distance published
- Noadswood School 13.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Lift New Forest 13.4 mi Good Last distance published
- The Burgate School and Sixth Form 14.0 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Testwood School 14.2 mi Standards maintained Last distance published