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Swanmore College[1]

Secondary · ages 11–16

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Headline results

Attainment 8
A8 52 51.6 2025/26[2]

Results

GCSE (key stage 4)

Attainment 8
51.6 2025/26[2]
Grade 5+ in English & maths
49.4% 2025/26[2]
Grade 7+ in English & maths
17.6% 2025/26[2]
Progress 8
+0.25 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 Grade 7+ in English & maths Progress 8
2024/25 49.4[5] 50.8%[5]
2023/24 52.1[3] 57.1%[3] +0.25[3]
2022/23 51.2[6] 55%[6] +0.14[6]
2021/22 53.4[7] 64%[7] +0.21[7]

Destinations after GCSEs

Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment
93% 2022/23[8]
School sixth form
0% 2021/22[9]
Sixth-form college
63% 2022/23[8]
Further education college
21% 2022/23[8]
Apprenticeship
4% 2022/23[8]
Employment
5% 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 93%[9] 0%[9] 59%[9] 31%[9] 1%[9] 2%[9]
2020/21 94%[10] 64%[10] 25%[10] 3%[10] 2%[10]
2019/20 96%[11] 0%[11] 65%[11] 27%[11] 2%[11] 2%[11]
2018/19 93%[12] 0%[12] 54%[12] 31%[12] 3%[12] 4%[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
24 May 2023[13]
Type
Section 8 inspection of good and outstanding schools[13]
Report published
12 Jul 2023[13]
Safeguarding is effective
Yes[13]
Outcomes for ungraded and monitoring inspections
School remains Good[13]
Earlier inspections
InspectionTypeOverall
6 Feb 2018[14] Maintained Academy and School Short inspection[14] No overall grade[14]

Competition to get in

Applications and offers, Year 7

Applications per place
1.6 Entry Sept 2026[15]
Applications (any preference)
415 Entry Sept 2026[15]
First preferences
248 Entry Sept 2026[15]
Places offered
262 Entry Sept 2026[15]
First preferences per place
0.9 Entry Sept 2026[15]
Earlier years
Entry Applications First preferences Places offered Per place First preferences per place
Entry Sept 2025 407[15] 267[15] 257[15] 1.6[15] 1.0[15]
Entry Sept 2024 452[15] 299[15] 262[15] 1.7[15] 1.1[15]
Entry Sept 2023 463[15] 298[15] 263[15] 1.8[15] 1.1[15]
Entry Sept 2022 398[15] 313[15] 282[15] 1.4[15] 1.1[15]

Admissions

Application deadline
31 Oct 2026 Entry Sept 2027[16]
Places (published admission number)
270 Entry Sept 2027[16]

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
1350[1]
Local authority
Hampshire[1]
Website
http://swanmore-school.co.uk/[1]
District
Winchester[17]
Postcode
SO32 2RB[1]
URN
116424[1]

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

Pupils

Number on roll
1332 2024/25[18]
English as an additional language
5% 2024/25[18]
SEN support
9.7% 2024/25[18]
EHC plan
2.4% 2024/25[18]
Free school meals in the last 6 years
17.6% 2024/25[18]

Pupils' ethnicity 2025/26

White
94%[19]
Mixed
3.4%[19]
Asian
1.5%[19]
Black
0.4%[19]
Any other ethnic group
0.4%[19]
Unclassified
0.2%[19]

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

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 final. Period 2023/24, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  4. Department for Education: Key stage 4 performance 2024/25: data guidance. Period 2024/25. Archived copy; original. Licence: OGL-3.0.
    Quote
    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.
  5. Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 final. Period 2024/25, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  6. Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 final. Period 2022/23, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  7. Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 final. Period 2021/22, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  8. Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 destinations. Period 2022/23, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  9. Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 destinations. Period 2021/22, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  10. Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 destinations. Period 2020/21, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  11. Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 destinations. Period 2019/20, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  12. Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 destinations. Period 2018/19, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  13. Ofsted: State-funded schools inspections and outcomes. Period 2022/23. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  14. Ofsted: State-funded schools inspections and outcomes. Period 2017/18. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  15. 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.
  16. swanmore-school.co.uk: swanmore-school.co.uk — Admissions policy 2027-2028. Period 2026-10-16. Licence: copyright-quoted.
    Quotes (2)
    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 Swanmore College for 2027-2028 is 270. (p. 1)
  17. 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.
  18. Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: School census. Period 2024/25, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  19. 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.