Hightown Primary School
Primary · Academy sponsor led · Ages 2–11 · Southampton
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.847 miles
Published by Southampton City Council · offers on 16 April 2026
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Hightown Primary School is a primary school in Southampton for ages 2–11 (academy sponsor led). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 7 November 2023. Southampton has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2026 entry.
Hightown Primary 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 |
|---|---|
| Reception 2026 | 0.847 mi |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- In 2024/25, 21% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of primary school (England 62%), and 0% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- The 2024/25 reading, writing and maths result was the lowest of 8 schools: this one and the 7 of the 8 nearest primary schools in Southampton that have results.
- Reception 2026 had 30 first-choice applications for 28 offers; 26 offers went to first-choice families, and 4 first-choice families were not offered a place.
- 66.4% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 50.1% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Southampton.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Southampton schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Tunstall Road, Thornhill, Southampton, SO19 6AA
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–11
- Council
- Southampton
- Pupils on roll
- 229 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 66.4% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 20.8
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 7 November 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils enjoy attending Hightown.”
- “Relationships between adults and pupils are strong.”
- “Staff know pupils and their families well.”
To improve
- “Although the school has high expectations, pupils’ published outcomes, in some aspects of achievement, are not yet as high as they could be.”
- “In part, this is due to a legacy of underachievement, the negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and weaker curriculum thinking in the past.”
- “Staff’s subject expertise varies, however, in a few subjects.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 13 December 2023 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Exam results
| Measure | School | England |
|---|---|---|
| Key stage 2 · reading, writing and maths, expected standard (2024/25) | 21% | 62% |
Department for Education school performance data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 30 first-preference applications, 28 offers in total, 26 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 primary schools
Straight-line distance, in Southampton.
- Kanes Hill Primary School 0.6 mi Good Last distance published
- Valentine Primary School & Nursery 0.8 mi Not judged
- Thornhill Primary School 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Monica Primary School 1.3 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Sholing Infant School 1.3 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Sholing Junior School 1.4 mi Good
- Harefield Primary School 1.4 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
- Weston Park Primary School 1.5 mi Good Last distance published