Upper Shirley High School[1]

Secondary · ages 11–16

Headline results

Attainment 8: A8 48 47.6 2025/26[2]

Results

GCSE (key stage 4)

Attainment 8: 47.6 2025/26[2]
Grade 5+ in English & maths: 47.8% 2025/26[2]
Grade 7+ in English & maths: 14.4% 2025/26[2]
Progress 8: +0.09 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[5]	49.3%[5]
2023/24	49.2[3]	57.6%[3]	+0.09[3]
2022/23	46.8[6]	51%[6]	-0.11[6]
2021/22	52.5[7]	56%[7]	+0.23[7]

Destinations after GCSEs

Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment: 92% 2022/23[8]
School sixth form: 0% 2022/23[8]
Sixth-form college: 67% 2022/23[8]
Further education college: 22% 2022/23[8]
Apprenticeship: 2% 2022/23[8]
Employment: 1% 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]	0%[9]	68%[9]	21%[9]	3%[9]	4%[9]
2020/21	97%[10]	1%[10]	69%[10]	24%[10]	1%[10]	2%[10]
2019/20	96%[11]	0%[11]	77%[11]	15%[11]	1%[11]	3%[11]
2018/19	94%[12]	1%[12]	72%[12]	16%[12]	1%[12]	5%[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: 21 Jan 2025[13]
Type: Section 8 inspection of good and outstanding schools[13]
Report published: 11 Feb 2025[13]
Safeguarding is effective?: Yes[13]
Outcomes for ungraded and monitoring inspections: Standards maintained[13]

Earlier inspections
Inspection	Type	Overall
22 Oct 2019[14]	S5 Inspection[14]	Good[14]
Date not published[15]	Maintained Academy and School Short inspection[15]	No overall grade[15]

Competition to get in

Applications and offers, Year 7

Applications per place: 2.6 Entry Sept 2026[16]
Applications (any preference): 559 Entry Sept 2026[16]
First preferences: 248 Entry Sept 2026[16]
Places offered: 215 Entry Sept 2026[16]
First preferences per place: 1.2 Entry Sept 2026[16]

Earlier years
Entry	Applications	First preferences	Places offered	Per place	First preferences per place
Entry Sept 2025	481[16]	224[16]	204[16]	2.4[16]	1.1[16]
Entry Sept 2024	527[16]	202[16]	200[16]	2.6[16]	1.0[16]
Entry Sept 2023	525[16]	216[16]	217[16]	2.4[16]	1.0[16]
Entry Sept 2022	548[16]	230[16]	207[16]	2.6[16]	1.1[16]

Admissions

Application deadline: 31 Oct 2025 Entry Sept 2026[17]

Character & practicalities

Type: Academy converter[1]
Ages: 11–16[1]
Boys / girls: Mixed[1]
Admissions: Non-selective[1]
Sixth form: No[1]
Boarding: No boarders[1]
Capacity: 990[1]
Trust: HAMWIC EDUCATION TRUST[1]
Local authority: Southampton[1]
Website: http://uppershirleyhigh.org/[1]
District: Southampton [18]
Postcode: SO15 7QU[1]
URN: 137037[1]

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

Pupils

Number on roll: 1081 2024/25[19]
English as an additional language: 33.8% 2024/25[19]
SEN support: 10.5% 2024/25[19]
EHC plan: 2.9% 2024/25[19]
Free school meals in the last 6 years: 29.8% 2024/25[19]

Pupils' ethnicity 2025/26

White: 69.8%[20]
Mixed: 7.8%[20]
Asian: 12.8%[20]
Black: 6.3%[20]
Any other ethnic group: 1.1%[20]
Unclassified: 2.2%[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.
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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.
uppershirleyhigh.org: uppershirleyhigh.org — Hamwic Southampton Secondary Admissions Policy 2026 2027-79 (PDF). Period 2026-03-03. Archived copy; original. Licence: copyright-quoted.
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Applications submitted by 31 October 2025 will be dealt with first. (p. 3)
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