Bohunt Farnborough

Academy sponsor led·Secondary school Farnborough, Hampshire·GU14 9BY
Composite score
48.4
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#2,686
National rank
#391
In South East
#52
In Hampshire
Top 84%
Nationally

Performance (KS4 GCSE)

Attainment 8 score
38.7
National avg ≈ 46
Progress 8 score
—
% achieving 9–5 in English & Maths
33%
% achieving 9–4 in English & Maths
58%
% EBacc grade 5+
10%
EBacc average points score
3.54

Ofsted judgements

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Overall effectiveness
Inadequate
Quality of education
Requires improvement
Behaviour and attitudes
Inadequate
Personal development
Requires improvement
Leadership and management
Inadequate
Safeguarding effective?
No

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
118 first choices, 137 places
First choices per place
0.86
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
216
any preference, for 137 places
Applications from another council area
2%
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.36
00.511.5
1 per place
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Red dashed line = one first choice per place. How to read this

Every child who put Bohunt Farnborough 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
629
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None
Admissions
Non-Selective

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
35.0%
Typical secondary: 27.5%
% EAL
22.1%
Typical secondary: 12.0%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
19.2%
Typical secondary: 13.7%
% with an EHC plan
4.9%
Typical secondary: 2.9%

Attendance

Overall absence
14.0%
Typical secondary: 8.9%
Persistently absent
37.6%
Typical secondary: 25.7%

Staffing & funding

Spend per pupil
£8,604
Typical secondary: £7,815

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

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Location

Bohunt Farnborough at a glance

Located in Farnborough, Hampshire, Bohunt Farnborough is a secondary school, classified by the DfE as a sponsor-led academy. The school educates roughly 629 pupils aged 11 to 16. Ofsted judged the school to be 'Inadequate' at its most recent inspection. In the most recent GCSE results, pupils achieved an average Attainment 8 score of 38.7, below the national average of 46. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it in the lower half of secondary schools nationally.

33% of pupils achieved a grade 5 or above in both English and maths, well below the national average of about 45%. 58% achieved a standard pass (grade 4+) in English and maths. Bohunt Farnborough was not oversubscribed for September 2026: all 118 families who put it first were offered a place. Overall pupil absence was 14.0%. If you are considering Bohunt Farnborough, it may be worth asking how leaders have responded to Ofsted's findings and what has changed since the inspection. 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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