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Applemore College[1]

Secondary · ages 11–16

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Headline results

Attainment 8
A8 37 37.4 2025/26[2]

Results

GCSE (key stage 4)

Attainment 8
37.4 2025/26[2]
Grade 5+ in English & maths
28.3% 2025/26[2]
Grade 7+ in English & maths
4.3% 2025/26[2]
Progress 8
-0.74 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 36.7[5] 32.2%[5]
2023/24 35.8[3] 29.8%[3] -0.74[3]
2022/23 41.5[6] 35%[6] -0.64[6]
2021/22 38.6[7] 32%[7] -1.02[7]

Destinations after GCSEs

Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment
90% 2022/23[8]
School sixth form
1% 2022/23[8]
Sixth-form college
34% 2022/23[8]
Further education college
47% 2022/23[8]
Apprenticeship
4% 2022/23[8]
Employment
3% 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 88%[9] 1%[9] 14%[9] 61%[9] 4%[9] 9%[9]
2020/21 90%[10] 0%[10] 37%[10] 45%[10] 5%[10] 3%[10]
2019/20 92%[11] 2%[11] 22%[11] 63%[11] 4%[11] 2%[11]
2018/19 96%[12] 0%[12] 19%[12] 63%[12] 7%[12] 8%[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
1 Oct 2024[13]
Type
Requires Improvement S5 Reinspection Visit 1[13]
Report published
19 Nov 2024[13]
Personal development
Good[13]
Quality of education
Good[13]
Behaviour and attitudes
Good[13]
Safeguarding is effective?
Yes[13]
Effectiveness of leadership and management
Good[13]
Earlier inspections
InspectionTypeOverall
12 Jul 2022[14] S5 Inspection[14] Requires improvement[14]
14 Feb 2017[15] Maintained Academy and School Short inspection[15] No overall grade[15]

Competition to get in

Applications and offers, Year 7

Applications per place
2.7 Entry Sept 2026[16]
Applications (any preference)
176 Entry Sept 2026[16]
First preferences
53 Entry Sept 2026[16]
Places offered
65 Entry Sept 2026[16]
First preferences per place
0.8 Entry Sept 2026[16]
Earlier years
Entry Applications First preferences Places offered Per place First preferences per place
Entry Sept 2025 155[16] 63[16] 64[16] 2.4[16] 1.0[16]
Entry Sept 2024 216[16] 87[16] 89[16] 2.4[16] 1.0[16]
Entry Sept 2023 167[16] 58[16] 67[16] 2.5[16] 0.9[16]
Entry Sept 2022 202[16] 120[16] 131[16] 1.5[16] 0.9[16]

Admissions

Application deadline
31 Oct 2025 Entry Sept 2026[17]
Places (published admission number)
155 Entry Sept 2026[17]

Character & practicalities

Type
Foundation school[1]
Ages
11–16[1]
Boys / girls
Mixed[1]
Admissions
Non-selective[1]
Sixth form
No[1]
Boarding
No boarders[1]
Capacity
775[1]
Local authority
Hampshire[1]
Website
http://www.applemore.hants.sch.uk/[1]
District
New Forest[18]
Postcode
SO45 4RQ[1]
URN
116504[1]

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

Pupils

Number on roll
525 2024/25[19]
English as an additional language
1.9% 2024/25[19]
SEN support
16.2% 2024/25[19]
EHC plan
12.2% 2024/25[19]
Free school meals in the last 6 years
28.8% 2024/25[19]

Pupils' ethnicity 2025/26

White
95.8%[20]
Mixed
3.1%[20]
Asian
0.4%[20]
Black
0.4%[20]
Any other ethnic group
0.2%[20]
Unclassified
0%[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

  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 2024/25. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  14. Ofsted: State-funded schools inspections and outcomes. Period 2021/22. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  15. Ofsted: State-funded schools inspections and outcomes. Period 2016/17. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  16. 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.
  17. applemore.hants.sch.uk: applemore.hants.sch.uk — Admissions Policy For Academic Year 2026-27 (PDF). Period 2026-10-16. Licence: copyright-quoted.
    Quotes (2)
    The Governing Body will consider first all those applications received by the published deadline of midnight on Friday 31 October 2025. (p. 1)
    pg. 2 If the College is oversubscribed, places will be offered up to the published admission number (PAN) of 155 in the following priority order. (p. 2)
  18. 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.
  19. Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: School census. Period 2024/25, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  20. 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.