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Schools in Southampton

83 schools in the Southampton local authority.

Schools

83

Open schools

Pupils

35,292

2025–26 census

Good or better

89%

54 of 61 graded

Academic Performance

4.6

out of 10 · 74 schools

Ofsted ratings

Outstanding
12 20%
Good
42 69%
Requires improvement
5 8%
Inadequate
2 3%
16 inspected since 2024, no overall grade7 superseded by a report card6 not judged2 in a category of concern1 safeguarding not effective
4.6
Academic Performance

Averaged over 74 of 83 schools that can be scored

Pupils

35,292

pupils on roll

Boys 51%49% Girls

Ethnicity

White
65%
Asian
16%
Black
8%
Mixed
8%
Chinese
<1%
Any other group
2%
Unclassified
<1%

Ethnicity from 76 of 83 schools (33,691 pupils). Independent schools report roll and sex only.

Pupil characteristics

Free school meals
38.8%

13,068 of 33,691 pupils · 76 of 83 schools

First language not English
32.2%

10,838 of 33,691 pupils · 76 of 83 schools

Young carers
2.0%

686 of 33,558 pupils · 75 of 83 schools

Schools by phase

Primary
55
Secondary
15
Special
7
Nursery
1
PRU
2
Not recorded
3

Top primary schools in Southampton

The 20 highest-scoring primary schools here on Academic Performance, which combines the Ofsted judgement with DfE attainment.

Top secondary schools in Southampton

The highest-scoring secondary schools here on Academic Performance, which combines the Ofsted judgement with DfE attainment.

Browse all 83 schools in Southampton — filter by phase or Ofsted rating.

About schools in Southampton

How many schools are there in Southampton?
Southampton has 83 open schools — 55 primary, 15 secondary, 7 special, 1 nursery, teaching 35,292 pupils in total.
How many schools in Southampton are rated Good or Outstanding?
54 of the 61 schools holding an Ofsted grade — 89% — are rated Good or Outstanding, including 12 rated Outstanding. That share is measured against graded schools, not all 83: a school inspected since September 2024 has no overall grade at all.
What is the average Academic Performance in Southampton?
4.6 out of 10, averaged across the 74 schools here that can be scored, where 5 is the national average. Academic Performance combines the Ofsted judgement with DfE attainment and is ranked against comparable schools, so it is neither figure on its own.
Why do some Southampton schools have no Ofsted rating?
22 schools in Southampton currently hold no overall grade. Ofsted stopped awarding single-word judgements in September 2024 and moved to a report card of separately graded areas, so schools inspected since then have no overall rating whatever the inspection found. Their profiles show the report card instead.
What does Southampton local authority do?
A local authority is the body responsible for state education in its area — the level most admissions and school-place decisions are made at. Southampton covers 83 schools and sits in the South East region. It does not run academies or independent schools directly, though it still coordinates admissions for most of them.
How many pupils in Southampton are eligible for free school meals?
38.8% — 13,068 of 33,691 pupils at the 76 schools that report it. Independent schools file a return with roll and sex only, so they are outside this figure rather than counted as zero.

Part of the South East region.