Secondary school offers in Hampshire: offer day 2027

National Offer Day Monday 1 March 2027 · 69 secondary schools · first-choice odds, waiting lists and appeals

How likely is a first choice here?

For September 2026 entry, 90.1% of families living in Hampshire were offered their first-choice secondary school, against 83.6% across England. 330 families (2.4%) were offered none of the schools they named. Hampshire ranks 106 of 150 councils in England, hardest first (see every council).

25 of its 69 secondary schools had more first-choice applications than places.

The most sought-after, by first-choice applications per place offered: Bishop Challoner Catholic Secondary School (1.8 per place), Crookhorn College (1.4 per place), The Westgate School (1.3 per place), Deer Park School (1.3 per place), The Vyne Community School (1.3 per place).

If you didn't get your first choice

1. Accept the place you were offered by the date in your offer letter. Accepting it does not affect a waiting list or an appeal, and a place that isn't accepted can be withdrawn.
2. Get on the waiting lists you want. Every school must keep one until at least 31 December of the year your child starts. It is ranked by the school's admission rules, not by when you joined, so a family moving closer can go above you. Some councils add you automatically for schools you ranked higher than the one offered; your offer letter says which.
3. Decide whether to appeal. You can appeal for every school that refused your child. You get at least 20 school days from the offer to lodge it, and on-time appeals must be heard within 40 school days of that deadline. The figures below show how often appeals succeed here.
4. Look at schools that took lower preferences. These are the likeliest to have room now.

Schools that took children who ranked them lower

For September 2026 entry these 44 schools offered more places than they had first-choice applications, so some went to families who put them second or lower. They are the likeliest to have room after offer day; ask Hampshire or the school.

• Alderwood School Aldershot
• Amery Hill School Alton
• Applemore College Southampton
• Bohunt Farnborough Farnborough
• Bohunt School Liphook
• Bridgemary School Gosport
• Brighton Hill Community School Basingstoke
• Court Moor School Fleet
• Cove School Farnborough
• Crestwood Community School Eastleigh
• Danebury School Stockbridge
• Eggar's School Alton
• Everest Community Academy Basingstoke
• Frogmore Community College Yateley
• Havant Academy Havant
• Henry Beaufort School Winchester
• Horndean Technology College Waterlooville
• Hounsdown School Southampton
• King's Academy Bay House Gosport
• King's Academy Brune Park Gosport
• Kings' School Winchester
• Lift New Forest Southampton
• Lift Winton Andover
• Oakmoor School Bordon
• Perins School Alresford
• Portchester Community School Fareham
• Ringwood School Academy Ringwood
• Swanmore College Southampton
• Testbourne Community School Whitchurch
• Testwood School Southampton
• The Arnewood School New Milton
• The Blue Coat School Basingstoke Basingstoke
• The Clere School Newbury
• The Costello School Basingstoke
• The Cowplain School Waterlooville
• The Hamble School Southampton
• The Hayling College Hayling Island
• The Henry Cort Community College Fareham
• The Hurst School Tadley
• The Romsey School Romsey
• Warblington School Havant
• Wildern School Southampton
• Wyvern College Eastleigh
• Yateley School Yateley

Every secondary school: demand for 2026 entry

Sorted by first-choice applications per place, the most contested first.

Places offered is the number of offers made on national offer day, and first choices offered the share of families who put the school first and got it (Department for Education, September 2026 entry).

Appeals in Hampshire

Secondary school appeals across all of Hampshire, from the Department for Education. Appeals are not published school by school. Across England in 2025/26, 19.5% of 27,084 secondary appeals heard were upheld. How appeal odds differ between councils.

More for Hampshire

• Every school in Hampshire, with catchment areas and Ofsted
• Starting school in Hampshire
• Map of schools near your home, with your chance of a place where we have the data