Springfield School

Academy converter·Secondary school Portsmouth·PO6 1QY
Composite score
49.7
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#2,538
National rank
#372
In South East
#5
In Portsmouth
Top 80%
Nationally

Performance (KS4 GCSE)

Attainment 8 score
39.8
National avg ≈ 46
Progress 8 score
—
% achieving 9–5 in English & Maths
38%
% achieving 9–4 in English & Maths
57%
% EBacc grade 5+
16%
EBacc average points score
3.60

Ofsted judgements

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Quality of education
Good
Behaviour and attitudes
Good
Personal development
Good
Leadership and management
Good
Safeguarding effective?
Yes

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
207 first choices, 225 places
First choices per place
0.92
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
413
any preference, for 225 places
Applications from another council area
4%
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.12
00.511.5
1 per place
0.8020220.8120230.8120240.8020250.922026

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

Every child who put Springfield School 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
1,118
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None
Admissions
Non-Selective

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
28.4%
Typical secondary: 27.5%
% EAL
10.8%
Typical secondary: 12.0%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
15.6%
Typical secondary: 13.7%
% with an EHC plan
1.8%
Typical secondary: 2.9%

Attendance

Overall absence
9.4%
Typical secondary: 8.9%
Persistently absent
23.5%
Typical secondary: 25.7%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
16.7
Typical secondary: 16.7
Spend per pupil
£7,021
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
92%
201 pupils tracked
Stayed in education
81%
Apprenticeship
8%
Employment
3%

DfE, KS4 destination measures.

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Location

Springfield School at a glance

Located in Portsmouth, Springfield School is a secondary school, classified by the DfE as a converter academy. The school educates roughly 1,118 pupils aged 11 to 16. In the most recent GCSE results, pupils achieved an average Attainment 8 score of 39.8, below the national average of 46. That is down 3.9 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.

38% of pupils achieved a grade 5 or above in both English and maths, below the national average of about 45%. 57% achieved a standard pass (grade 4+) in English and maths. Springfield School was not oversubscribed for September 2026: all 207 families who put it first were offered a place. After Year 11, 92% of its leavers went on to education, an apprenticeship or work that they stayed in for at least two terms. Overall pupil absence was 9.4%. There are about 16.7 pupils per teacher. Springfield School 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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