Crookhorn College
Local authority school · ages 11–16 · no sixth form
Below average on 1 of the four headline measures — 47th of 68 for average grade in Hampshire.
Waterlooville · Hampshire · one of 69 state secondaries
Summary
Crookhorn College sits 47th of 68 state secondaries in Hampshire for average GCSE grade. 62.4% of its pupils passed both English and maths, against 65.1% across Hampshire. 37.6% reached the stronger grade 5 in both. Subject by subject it is furthest clear of Hampshire in religious studies, sat by 11% of the year, and business studies, sat by 16% of the year,, and furthest behind in combined science. Ofsted: Inspected in November 2024, after Ofsted stopped issuing a single overall grade.
It is a school of 943 pupils, taking ages 11 to 16. 28.6% of its pupils are eligible for free school meals, and 21.2% are on SEN support with a further 9.4% holding an education, health and care plan. 12.9% were entered for the full EBacc, fewer than the 33.6% entered across Hampshire, which is a choice about how broad a curriculum to push, and 8.2% took the separate sciences rather than combined. 21.3% of pupils missed a tenth of school or more, about the same as Hampshire, and 77.9% of its leavers went on to further education.
Subject comparisons are measured at grade 4 or above against Hampshire, and count as ahead or behind only where the gap is wider than the year-to-year swing that entry group would produce.
The school·Hampshire
Inspection
Graded by area
Inspected November 2024
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Good
- Leadership and management
- Good
- Personal development
- Outstanding
- Quality of education
- Good
- November 2024 Full inspection
Ofsted stopped issuing a single overall grade in September 2024.
Attendance
21% of pupils missed a tenth of school or more, against 21% across Hampshire and 21% nationally. The comparators are the median secondary school, not an average.
GCSE · Key stage 4·2024/25
Attainment
62%
Passed English & maths grade 4+, an old grade C
in line with average
Hampshire 65% · England 65%
42.6
Average grade across 8 Attainment 8, out of 90
in line with average
Hampshire 45.5 · England 46.1
13%
Entered for the EBacc the academic core of subjects
well below average
Hampshire 34% · England 41%
After Year 11
78% stayed in education, 6% started an apprenticeship (2022/23 leavers)
GCSE results by subject
2024/25 · share reaching grade 4 or above · a standard pass, the old grade C
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What these mean
- Attainment 8
- The average pupil's total score across eight GCSE-equivalent subjects, with English and maths counting double. It is scored out of 90. A score of 50 is roughly equivalent to achieving a grade 5 across eight subjects.
- Grades 4 and 5
- GCSEs are graded from 9 down to 1. Grade 4 is a standard pass and broadly corresponds to the old grade C; grade 5 is what the government calls a strong pass. Grade 7 is broadly equivalent to an old grade A.
- The EBacc
- A combination of subjects rather than a qualification in its own right: English, Maths, the Sciences, a Language, and History or Geography. The figure shows the share of pupils entered for all the EBacc subject areas, so it gives an indication of how widely a school enters pupils for this particular combination of subjects.
- Progress 8
- A measure of how much progress pupils make between the end of primary school and the end of GCSE, rather than simply what grades they achieve. It takes pupils' prior attainment into account, making it useful for comparing schools with different intakes. Progress 8 is not published for 2024/25 because the pupils concerned did not have Key Stage 2 tests that can be used as the normal starting point.
- Percentage points
- The gap between two percentages. A subject going from 30% to 36% has risen six percentage points, though it has risen by a fifth. We write "pp" to keep the two apart.
- Why some subjects say nothing
- A year group is small. Where a gap is no bigger than the swing a different intake would produce, we say the subjects are level rather than dressing chance as a finding. Two kinds of subject carry no share at all: a vocational award has no 9-to-1 grade to report, and some qualifications are not published on the 9-to-1 scale for a given year group, most often community languages sat outside the school's own timetable.
- Persistent absence
- The share of pupils who miss at least 10% of their possible sessions during the school year. This includes both authorised and unauthorised absence, so illness and other authorised reasons are included. Persistent absence has remained substantially higher than its pre-pandemic level.
- Spare places
- The amount of available capacity a school has compared with the number of pupils on roll. This is different from oversubscription: spare places measure whether a school has capacity, whereas oversubscription describes demand for places exceeding the number available. A school with no spare places may be popular, but a small school can also be full without receiving a large number of applications.
School details
Stakes Hill Road
Waterlooville
Hampshire
PO7 5UD
- Headteacher
- Mrs Sarah Bennett
- Pupils
- 943 of 900 places
- Spare places
- None
- Free school meals
- 29%
- SEND
- 21% on SEN support, 9% with an EHC plan
- Separate sciences
- 8% of the year
- Progress 8
- Not published · last -0.31 in 2023/24
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