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Best secondary schools in Southampton

11 of 13 secondary schools ranked by Progress 8 · all Southampton schools · primary schools

Ranked on Progress 8, 2023/24 — the most recent year each school has published. Official data, not our opinion — but the ranking is only as good as the measure, and a single number never describes a school. We hold real catchment boundaries for 5 of them.

# School Progress 8 Ofsted Places Catchment
1 Saint George Catholic Voluntary Aided College Southampton Southampton 0.82 Outstanding improving oversubscribed 1.57 first prefs per place, 2026/27 approximate
2 St Anne's Catholic School Southampton hidden gem 0.72 Outstanding undersubscribed 0.81 first prefs per place, 2026/27 approximate
3 Cantell School Southampton 0.21 Outstanding improving oversubscribed 1.33 first prefs per place, 2026/27 mapped
4 Upper Shirley High School Southampton 0.09 Good oversubscribed 1.15 first prefs per place, 2026/27 mapped
5 Bitterne Park School Southampton -0.19 Good declining about even 1.01 first prefs per place, 2026/27 mapped
6 Oasis Academy Mayfield Southampton hidden gem -0.37 Good improving undersubscribed 0.7 first prefs per place, 2026/27 approximate
7 Oasis Academy Sholing Southampton -0.66 Not judged about even 1.08 first prefs per place, 2026/27 approximate
8 Weston Secondary School Southampton -0.71 Requires improvement undersubscribed 0.6 first prefs per place, 2026/27 approximate
9 Woodlands Community College Southampton -0.89 Good about even 1.07 first prefs per place, 2026/27 mapped
10 Oasis Academy Lord's Hill Southampton -0.91 Inadequate declining undersubscribed 0.28 first prefs per place, 2026/27 approximate
11 Redbridge Community School Southampton -0.99 Good declining about even 1.03 first prefs per place, 2026/27 mapped

Also in Southampton

2 further secondary schools with no published Progress 8 for the latest year — usually too small a cohort to report, newly opened, or a special school. Listed because leaving them out would make this a misleading picture of Southampton, not a fairer one.

Applying in Southampton

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