The Toynbee School[1]

Secondary · ages 11–16

Headline results

Attainment 8: A8 49 49.2 2025/26[2]

Results

GCSE (key stage 4)

Attainment 8: 49.2 2025/26[2]
Grade 5+ in English & maths: 42.5% 2025/26[2]
Grade 7+ in English & maths: 8.9% 2025/26[2]
Progress 8: +0.20 2023/24[3]
Progress 8, 2025/26: Not calculated[4]
Progress 8, 2024/25: Not calculated[4]

Earlier years
Year	Attainment 8	Grade 5+ in English & maths	Progress 8
2024/25	47.8[5]	46.2%[5]
2023/24	48.4[3]	44.5%[3]	+0.20[3]
2022/23	45.1[6]	39%[6]	-0.28[6]
2021/22	54.6[7]	58%[7]	+0.27[7]

Destinations after GCSEs

Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment: 93% 2022/23[8]
School sixth form: 1% 2021/22[9]
Sixth-form college: 50% 2022/23[8]
Further education college: 35% 2022/23[8]
Apprenticeship: 1% 2022/23[8]
Employment: 7% 2022/23[8]

Earlier leavers
Left in	Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment	School sixth form	Sixth-form college	Further education college	Apprenticeship	Employment
2021/22	96%[9]	1%[9]	65%[9]	23%[9]	4%[9]	2%[9]
2020/21	96%[10]	0%[10]	61%[10]	24%[10]	4%[10]	7%[10]
2019/20	95%[11]	0%[11]	58%[11]	31%[11]	3%[11]	3%[11]
2018/19	91%[12]	0%[12]	58%[12]	29%[12]	2%[12]	2%[12]

Shares of the pupils who left in the year shown. Russell Group and Oxford or Cambridge figures were published for leavers up to 2019/20 only.

Ofsted

Latest inspection: 22 Oct 2024[13]
Type: Section 8 inspection of good and outstanding schools[13]
Report published: 21 Nov 2024[13]
Safeguarding is effective?: Yes[13]
Outcomes for ungraded and monitoring inspections: Standards maintained[13]

Earlier inspections
Inspection	Type	Overall
19 Mar 2019[14]	Maintained Academy and School Short inspection[14]	No overall grade[14]
Date not published[15]	Requires Improvement S5 Reinspection Visit 1[15]	Good[15]

Competition to get in

Applications and offers, Year 7

Applications per place: 2.5 Entry Sept 2026[16]
Applications (any preference): 507 Entry Sept 2026[16]
First preferences: 203 Entry Sept 2026[16]
Places offered: 200 Entry Sept 2026[16]
First preferences per place: 1.0 Entry Sept 2026[16]

Earlier years
Entry	Applications	First preferences	Places offered	Per place	First preferences per place
Entry Sept 2025	507[16]	210[16]	226[16]	2.2[16]	0.9[16]
Entry Sept 2024	547[16]	214[16]	224[16]	2.4[16]	1.0[16]
Entry Sept 2023	492[16]	186[16]	202[16]	2.4[16]	0.9[16]
Entry Sept 2022	422[16]	196[16]	204[16]	2.1[16]	1.0[16]

Admissions

Application deadline: 31 Oct 2026 Entry Sept 2027[17]
Places (published admission number): 210 Entry Sept 2027[17]

Character & practicalities

Type: Community school[1]
Ages: 11–16[1]
Boys / girls: Mixed[1]
Admissions: Non-selective[1]
Sixth form: No[1]
Boarding: No boarders[1]
Capacity: 1050[1]
Local authority: Hampshire[1]
Website: www.toynbee.hants.sch.uk [1]
District: Eastleigh [18]
Postcode: SO53 2PL[1]
URN: 116411[1]

School details as recorded in Get Information About Schools on 14 Oct 2026.

Pupils

Number on roll: 1094 2024/25[19]
English as an additional language: 11.1% 2024/25[19]
SEN support: 9.6% 2024/25[19]
EHC plan: 5.2% 2024/25[19]
Free school meals in the last 6 years: 18.4% 2024/25[19]

Pupils' ethnicity 2025/26

White: 84.1%[20]
Mixed: 4.5%[20]
Asian: 8.1%[20]
Black: 2.1%[20]
Any other ethnic group: 0.7%[20]
Unclassified: 0.5%[20]

The school census's major ethnic groups as shares of the school's pupils, summed by us from the published counts. For information only: never used to rank, filter or colour schools.

Sources

Department for Education: Get Information About Schools: all establishments. Period 2026-10-14, published 2026-10-14. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Department for Education: Performance tables schools data (explore education statistics). Period 2025/26, provisional, published 2026-10-15. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 final. Period 2023/24, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Department for Education: Key stage 4 performance 2024/25: data guidance. Period 2024/25. Archived copy; original. Licence: OGL-3.0.
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It is not possible to calculate Progress 8 for academic years 2024/25 and 2025/26 due to gaps in the baseline caused by COVID-19 disruption.
Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 final. Period 2024/25, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 final. Period 2022/23, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 final. Period 2021/22, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 destinations. Period 2022/23, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 destinations. Period 2021/22, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 destinations. Period 2020/21, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 destinations. Period 2019/20, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 destinations. Period 2018/19, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Ofsted: State-funded schools inspections and outcomes. Period 2024/25. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Ofsted: State-funded schools inspections and outcomes. Period 2018/19. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Ofsted: State-funded schools inspections and outcomes. Period 2015/16. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Department for Education: Primary and secondary school applications and offers: school level. Period Entry Sept 2026, final, published 2026-06-29. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
toynbee.hants.sch.uk: toynbee.hants.sch.uk — Admission policy 2027-2028 (PDF). Period 2026-10-16. Licence: copyright-quoted.
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Admissions Process The County Council will consider first all those applications received by the published deadline of midnight on 31 October 2026. (p. 1)
The PAN for The Toynbee School for 2027-2028 is 210. (p. 1)
Office for National Statistics: Parish to Ward to Local Authority District (May 2026) Lookup in EW. Period 2026-05-01. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: School census. Period 2024/25, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Department for Education: Schools, pupils and their characteristics: school level underlying data. Period 2025/26, published 2026-06-04. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.