Warblington School

About Warblington School

Warblington School sits within the Hampshire local authority, a secondary school for pupils aged 11 to 16 in the Havant area. When measured by Progress 8, the school ranks 5th out of 8 schools in Havant, placing it in the bottom half of its immediate local group. Across the wider Hampshire secondary landscape, it ranks 45th out of 80 schools of the same type. The top-performing peers in the local area include Sparsholt College Hampshire, Lift Winton, and Thornden School, all of which have significantly higher ranking scores. Warblington is a mixed, non-religious state school with no sixth form, meaning pupils typically move on elsewhere after Year 11. The school has a capacity of 900 and currently enrols 758 pupils, with 31.7 per cent eligible for free school meals, a figure well above the national average and an important indicator of the school's intake profile.

Academically, the school's most recent data from the 2023/24 academic year shows a Progress 8 score of -0.49, which is below the Hampshire local authority average of -0.17 and places the school in the 'below average' national banding. The Attainment 8 score stands at 39.3, and 36.5 per cent of pupils achieved a grade 5 or above in English and maths GCSEs, compared with 57.1 per cent at the standard 4+ threshold. The EBacc average point score is 3.57, with only 5.6 per cent of pupils entering and achieving the EBacc at grade 5 or above. In its most recent Ofsted inspection in 2023, the school was rated Requires Improvement overall, a downgrade from its previous Good rating in 2018. The inspection found that quality of education, behaviour and attitudes, and leadership and management all require improvement, though personal development was rated Good.

Warblington offers a solid range of facilities including playing fields, science labs, tennis courts, a sports hall, music rooms, a library, an ICT suite, a gymnasium, and a chapel. Sports on offer include hockey, football, rugby, basketball, cricket, rowing, and martial arts, while clubs range from orchestra and choir to the Duke of Edinburgh's Award, debate, and a newspaper club. The school has a broad SEND provision, covering specific learning difficulties like dyslexia, moderate learning difficulty, social, emotional and mental health needs, speech and language communication needs, physical disability, and autistic spectrum disorder. For the 2025/26 admissions cycle, the school was oversubscribed: 247 applications were received for 176 places, with 134 first-preference offers made, giving an oversubscription ratio of 1.4. This suggests Warblington is a popular local choice, particularly for families who value its inclusive SEND support and wide extracurricular offer, despite its current academic challenges.

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