Oasis Academy Sholing

Academy sponsor led·Secondary school Southampton·SO19 8PH
Composite score
54.1
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#2,017
National rank
#303
In South East
#5
In Southampton
Top 64%
Nationally

Performance (KS4 GCSE)

Attainment 8 score
43.3
National avg ≈ 46
Progress 8 score
—
% achieving 9–5 in English & Maths
41%
% achieving 9–4 in English & Maths
62%
% EBacc grade 5+
15%
EBacc average points score
3.92

Ofsted judgements

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

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
85%
225 first choices, 209 places
First choices per place
1.08
more first choices than places
Applications naming the school
412
any preference, for 209 places
Applications from another council area
3%
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.31
00.511.5
1 per place
0.9720220.9220230.9320240.7720251.082026

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

Southampton does not publish how far from the school the last child offered a Year 7 place lived, so there is no cut-off distance to show for Oasis Academy Sholing. Ask the school or the council how places were allocated this year.

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

School profile

Age range
11–16
Pupils on roll
1,032
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
33.5%
Typical secondary: 27.5%
% EAL
10.9%
Typical secondary: 12.0%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
18.6%
Typical secondary: 13.7%
% with an EHC plan
2.4%
Typical secondary: 2.9%

Attendance

Overall absence
12.2%
Typical secondary: 8.9%
Persistently absent
31.9%
Typical secondary: 25.7%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
17.7
Typical secondary: 16.7
Spend per pupil
£6,764
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
89%
208 pupils tracked
Stayed in education
81%
Apprenticeship
5%
Employment
3%

DfE, KS4 destination measures.

Nearby secondary schools

Location

School overview

Oasis Academy Sholing is a secondary school serving Southampton, classified by the DfE as a sponsor-led academy. It has 1,032 pupils aged 11 to 16 on roll. In the most recent GCSE results, pupils achieved an average Attainment 8 score of 43.3, broadly in line with the national average of 46. That marks an improvement of 4.7 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.

41% of pupils achieved a grade 5 or above in both English and maths, in line with the national average of about 45%. 62% achieved a standard pass (grade 4+) in English and maths. Competition for places is real here - 85% of first-choice applicants were offered a Year 7 place for September 2026 (225 first choices for 209 places). After Year 11, 89% of its leavers went on to education, an apprenticeship or work that they stayed in for at least two terms. Overall pupil absence was 12.2%. There are about 17.7 pupils per teacher. Oasis Academy Sholing 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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