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Schools near SO23

Every Ofsted-rated school within 3 miles, on the map and in the table, against the national picture. Search a full postcode and the table adds a column for that address: whether it sits inside each school's last admission distance.

SO23

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100% Outstanding or Good · above the 80% national figure

Within 3 miles: 22 schools, 1 sixth form or FE college (16 plus), 1 university.

4 Outstanding 9 Good 9 No current grade

Outstanding Good Requires improvement Inadequate Report card No current grade published admission distance estimated

Report card: inspected since Ofsted stopped one-word grades in late 2024, so it has a report card rather than a grade. No current grade: Ofsted's register holds no graded inspection for the school, usually because it is new, or has become an academy and not yet been inspected as one.

No reading for an address here: SO23 is a district, and a school's admission distance is measured from a home, not from the middle of an area. Search a full postcode in SO23 and its table adds a column saying, school by school, whether that address sits inside last time's distance. Check a postcode

School	Phase	Ofsted	Distance	Admitted from	Results
Voluntary controlled school	Primary	No current grade	0.2 mi away	0.51 mi est.	78.0% KS2
Community special school	Special	Outstanding	0.4 mi away	no figure	no figure
Community school	Primary	No current grade	0.5 mi away	0.34 mi est.	68.0% KS2
Local authority nursery school	Nursery	Outstanding	0.7 mi away	no figure	no figure
Voluntary controlled school	Primary	Good	0.8 mi away	0.26 mi est.	66.0% KS2
Community school	Secondary	Outstanding	0.9 mi away	0.44 mi est.	59.8 A8
Free schools	Primary	Outstanding	1.1 mi away	2.42 mi est.	no figure
Voluntary controlled school	Primary	No current grade	1.1 mi away	no figure	74.0% KS2
Community school	Primary	Good	1.2 mi away	0.43 mi est.	81.0% KS2
Community school	Secondary	Good	1.2 mi away	0.78 mi est.	50.5 A8
Voluntary aided school	Primary	Good	1.3 mi away	0.43 mi est.	83.0% KS2
Community school	Primary	Good	1.4 mi away	0.36 mi est.	38.0% KS2
Community school	Primary	No current grade	1.5 mi away	0.28 mi est.	59.0% KS2
Community school	Primary	Good	1.8 mi away	0.71 mi est.	78.0% KS2
Community school	Secondary	Good	1.8 mi away	0.98 mi est.	57.8 A8
Voluntary aided school	Primary	Good	2.0 mi away	0.39 mi est.	58.0% KS2
Community school	Primary	Ungraded inspection, March 2025: standards maintained	2.3 mi away	0.44 mi est.	55.0% KS2
Voluntary aided school	Primary	Good	3.0 mi away	no figure	60.0% KS2

4 fee-paying schools are left out of this table: Ofsted grades few of them and none publishes an admission distance. Show them as well · Fee-paying only

"Admitted from" is how far the last child offered a place lived, in the year shown, from the council's own published figure. Where a council publishes none, "est." is a modelled estimate and meaningfully less reliable. "No limit" means the council's own figure puts the furthest offer beyond any commute, so distance did not decide who got in. Results are the share meeting the expected standard for primaries, and Attainment 8 (A8) for secondaries: the Department for Education published no Progress 8 for 2024/25, because those pupils sat no Key Stage 2 tests in 2020. A school whose newest year still has a Progress 8 shows it as P8. Nothing here is a catchment boundary: most English schools have none, and the distance moves every year.

How admissions work, and what "admitted from" means → England's tightest school catchments → · Admission distances by council →

University of Winchester

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