Wyvern College
About Wyvern College
Wyvern College is a large, mixed secondary school in Eastleigh, within the Hampshire local authority. It sits among a competitive field of 80 state secondary schools in the county, where only three hold an Outstanding rating from Ofsted. The school’s most recent inspection judged it Good, placing it in solid company but behind the top-ranked peers in the area. According to local context data, the highest-performing nearby schools include Sparsholt College Hampshire, Lift Winton, and Thornden School. Wyvern College, led by headteacher Ben Rule, educates 1,331 pupils aged 11 to 16 and has no religious character. It is a non-selective state school, drawing from the Eastleigh community and surrounding Hampshire villages. For parents weighing options in this part of the South East, Wyvern offers a well-regarded alternative to the county’s elite few, with the scale and breadth of a large comprehensive.
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