Weston Secondary School[1]

Secondary · ages 11–16

Headline results

Attainment 8: A8 30 30.3 2025/26[2]

Results

GCSE (key stage 4)

Attainment 8: 30.3 2025/26[2]
Grade 5+ in English & maths: 19.6% 2025/26[2]
Grade 7+ in English & maths: 2% 2025/26[2]
Progress 8: -0.71 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	31.1[5]	24.1%[5]
2023/24	31.2[3]	19.2%[3]	-0.71[3]
2022/23	34.6[6]	22%[6]	-0.51[6]
2021/22	35.4[7]	22%[7]	-0.35[7]

Destinations after GCSEs

Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment: 86% 2022/23[8]
School sixth form: 0% 2022/23[8]
Sixth-form college: 34% 2022/23[8]
Further education college: 34% 2022/23[8]
Apprenticeship: 5% 2022/23[8]
Employment: 12% 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	86%[9]	0%[9]	32%[9]	47%[9]	3%[9]	5%[9]

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: 6 Feb 2024[10]
Type: Academy First Section 5[10]
Report published: 17 Mar 2024[10]
Personal development: Requires improvement[10]
Quality of education: Requires improvement[10]
Overall effectiveness: Requires improvement[10]
Behaviour and attitudes: Requires improvement[10]
Safeguarding is effective: Yes[10]
Effectiveness of leadership and management: Good[10]

Competition to get in

Applications and offers, Year 7

Applications per place: 1.1 Entry Sept 2026[11]
Applications (any preference): 130 Entry Sept 2026[11]
First preferences: 70 Entry Sept 2026[11]
Places offered: 116 Entry Sept 2026[11]
First preferences per place: 0.6 Entry Sept 2026[11]

Earlier years
Entry	Applications	First preferences	Places offered	Per place	First preferences per place
Entry Sept 2025	190[11]	89[11]	116[11]	1.6[11]	0.8[11]
Entry Sept 2024	157[11]	69[11]	113[11]	1.4[11]	0.6[11]
Entry Sept 2023	160[11]	67[11]	116[11]	1.4[11]	0.6[11]
Entry Sept 2022	164[11]	70[11]	171[11]	1.0[11]	0.4[11]

Admissions

Application deadline: 31 Oct 2026 Entry Sept 2027[12]
Places (published admission number): 120 Entry Sept 2027[12]

Character & practicalities

Type: Academy sponsor led[1]
Ages: 11–16[1]
Boys / girls: Mixed[1]
Admissions: Non-selective[1]
Sixth form: No[1]
Boarding: College / FE residential accommodation[1]
Capacity: 999[1]
Trust: HAMWIC EDUCATION TRUST[1]
Local authority: Southampton[1]
Website: www.westonsecondary.co.uk [1]
District: Southampton [13]
Postcode: SO19 9QP[1]
URN: 147676[1]

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

Pupils

Number on roll: 738 2024/25[14]
English as an additional language: 40% 2024/25[14]
SEN support: 15.3% 2024/25[14]
EHC plan: 3.3% 2024/25[14]
Free school meals in the last 6 years: 58.1% 2024/25[14]

Pupils' ethnicity 2025/26

White: 64.3%[15]
Mixed: 6.6%[15]
Asian: 12.7%[15]
Black: 10%[15]
Any other ethnic group: 4.3%[15]
Unclassified: 2.1%[15]

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.
Ofsted: State-funded schools inspections and outcomes. Period 2023/24. 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.
westonsecondary.co.uk: westonsecondary.co.uk — Hamwic Southampton Secondary Admissions Policy 2027-2028 (PDF). Period 2026-10-16. Licence: copyright-quoted.
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Applications submitted by 31 October 2026 will be dealt with first. (p. 5)
School Name PAN Weston Secondary School 120 Upper Shirley High School 210 (p. 4)
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.