Havant Academy

Academy sponsor led·Secondary school Havant, Hampshire·PO9 5JD
Composite score
40.9
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#3,091
National rank
#465
In South East
#67
In Hampshire
Top 97%
Nationally

Performance (KS4 GCSE)

Attainment 8 score
32.7
National avg ≈ 46
Progress 8 score
—
% achieving 9–5 in English & Maths
19%
% achieving 9–4 in English & Maths
36%
% EBacc grade 5+
4%
EBacc average points score
2.71

Ofsted judgements

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Quality of education
Inadequate
Behaviour and attitudes
Inadequate
Personal development
Requires improvement
Leadership and management
Inadequate
Safeguarding effective?
Yes

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
57 first choices, 79 places
First choices per place
0.72
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
99
any preference, for 79 places
Applications from another council area
1%
First preferences per place, last five years▶ 0.00
00.511.5
1 per place
0.8820220.6920230.6720240.7220250.722026

Red dashed line = one first choice per place. How to read this

Every child who put Havant Academy first was offered a place in 2026, so no distance cut-off applied: living further away did not cost a place that year.

Application figures: DfE, school level applications and offers (2026 intake).

School profile

Age range
11–16
Pupils on roll
534
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None
Admissions
Non-Selective

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
61.4%
Typical secondary: 27.5%
% EAL
5.2%
Typical secondary: 12.0%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
35.2%
Typical secondary: 13.7%
% with an EHC plan
6.5%
Typical secondary: 2.9%

Attendance

Overall absence
15.6%
Typical secondary: 8.9%
Persistently absent
46.6%
Typical secondary: 25.7%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
20.4
Typical secondary: 16.7
Spend per pupil
£9,052
Typical secondary: £7,815

“Typical” = the median secondary school in England. What this means

What pupils do next

The share of this school's Year 11 leavers in education, training or employment for at least two terms afterwards.

In education, training or work
84%
89 pupils tracked
Stayed in education
73%
Apprenticeship
0%
Employment
11%

DfE, KS4 destination measures.

Nearby secondary schools

Location

School overview

Havant Academy is a secondary school serving Havant, Hampshire, classified by the DfE as a sponsor-led academy. It has 534 pupils aged 11 to 16 on roll. In the most recent GCSE results, pupils achieved an average Attainment 8 score of 32.7, well below the national average of 46. That marks an improvement of 2.0 points in its Attainment 8 score on the previous year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it in the lower half of secondary schools nationally.

19% of pupils achieved a grade 5 or above in both English and maths, well below the national average of about 45%. 36% achieved a standard pass (grade 4+) in English and maths. Havant Academy was not oversubscribed for September 2026: all 57 families who put it first were offered a place. After Year 11, 84% of its leavers went on to education, an apprenticeship or work that they stayed in for at least two terms. Overall pupil absence was 15.6%. There are about 20.4 pupils per teacher. The school serves a community with above-average levels of disadvantage: about 61% of pupils have been eligible for free school meals in the last six years, compared with roughly 24% nationally — useful context when reading the results above. Havant Academy does not currently have a recent graded Ofsted judgement on record (often the case for newer or recently converted schools), so it is worth asking when its next inspection is expected. This overview is generated automatically from the latest published DfE performance tables and Ofsted data; figures are rounded, and you can check the originals via the official links above.

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