Testwood School
Secondary · Academy converter · Ages 11–16 · Southampton, 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 🔒
Testwood School is a secondary school in Southampton, Hampshire for ages 11–16 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Standards maintained, from the inspection on 20 November 2024. Hampshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2019 to 2026 entry.
Testwood 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, 37% got grade 5 or above in GCSE English and maths (England 45%), 3rd lowest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest secondary schools in Hampshire.
- Its 2024/25 Attainment 8 score was 42.9 (England 46).
- Every applicant for Year 7 in 2026 was offered a place, with 151 first-choice applications for 153 offers and 2 offers to families who ranked it second or lower.
- Of its pupils, 31.1% 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
- Testwood Lane, Totton, Southampton, SO40 3ZW
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–16
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Hampshire
- Pupils on roll
- 820 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 31.1% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 17.2
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Standards maintained Inspected 20 November 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils are rightly proud and happy to be part of this inclusive and caring school.”
- “Pupils and staff enjoy positive and mutually respectful relationships.”
- “The school has a clear vision for continued improvement and has high expectations of pupils’ achievement.”
To improve
- “The school identified that pupils were not attaining as well as they could because not enough time was spent building knowledge and understanding in key stage 3.”
- “However, the teaching of subject specific vocabulary is not consistent across the curriculum.”
- “This means that, in some lessons, some pupils are not clear about the new words they need to use or what these words mean.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 21 January 2025 (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) | 37% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 42.9 | 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: 151 first-preference applications, 153 offers in total, 151 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.
- Hounsdown School 1.4 mi Good Last distance published
- The Mountbatten School 4.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- The Romsey School 4.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Applemore College 5.2 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Noadswood School 5.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- The Toynbee School 6.3 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Crestwood Community School 6.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Thornden School 7.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published