Secondary
Woodlands Community College
Minstead Avenue, Harefield, Southampton, SO18 5FW
Key facts
- Phase
- Secondary
- Type
- Foundation school
- Ages
- 11 to 16
- Intake
- Mixed
- Pupils
- 907 of 900 places
- Pupils per teacher
- 14.7
- Local authority
- Southampton
- SEN provision
- SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty, VI - Visual Impairment, OTH - Other Difficulty/Disability, HI - Hearing Impairment, SLCN - Speech, language and Communication, ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder, SEMH - Social, Emotional and Mental Health, MSI - Multi-Sensory Impairment, PD - Physical Disability, MLD - Moderate Learning Difficulty, SLD - Severe Learning Difficulty
- Trust
- Reach Cooperative Trust
Staffing23/24
- Teachers (FTE)
- 60.5
- All staff (FTE)
- 90.5
- Pupils per adult
- 9.9
- Pupils
- 892
Staff are counted as full-time equivalents in the November school workforce census, so the pupil figure here is that census’s own and will differ a little from the roll above, which is counted in January.
Ofsted
Last inspected September 2022
Good
- Behaviour and attitudesGood
- Leadership and governanceGood
- Personal developmentGood
- Quality of educationGood
Inspected under the previous framework, which used its own four-point scale. Ofsted now publishes a report card grading several areas separately, so these grades are not directly comparable with a recent inspection’s.
SafeguardingMet
Read the full Ofsted report (opens in a new tab)Earlier inspections1
January 2019
Previous framework
Requires improvement
- Leadership and governanceRequires improvement
GCSE results
16%
26 points below the Southampton average (42% across 20 schools)
35.5
8.2 below the Southampton average (43.7 across 20 schools)
17th of 20 by our score, among the secondary schools in Southampton we can score - 28 in total, the rest without enough published data. Local and same-phase on purpose: a national table mostly measures who attends.
All published measures2024/2025
| Measure | Result |
|---|---|
| Attainment 8 | 35.5 |
| EBacc average point score | 3.07 |
| Entered the EBacc | 24% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 40% |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 16% |
From the Department for Education. Measures are published per year and suppressed where a cohort is too small, so some schools show fewer. There are no results for 2019/20 or 2020/21, when exams and assessments were cancelled.
Results over time4 years
Each measure on its own scale, over every year we hold.
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 27% |
| 22/23 | 19% |
| 23/24 | 19% |
| 24/25 | 16% |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | -0.70 |
| 22/23 | -1.01 |
| 23/24 | -0.89 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 39.3 |
| 22/23 | 31.4 |
| 23/24 | 33.7 |
| 24/25 | 35.5 |
Minstead Avenue, Harefield, Southampton, SO18 5FW
Admissions
How to apply (opens in a new tab)
You apply through your council, not the school - even for academies and free schools. Applications close on 31 October, the year before starting.
Southampton admissions (opens in a new tab)
The council publishes the oversubscription criteria and last year’s offer distances, which is the closest thing to knowing your chances.
If you are refused a place (opens in a new tab)
You can appeal, and you can join a waiting list at the same time. Accept whatever offer you get first - declining it can leave you with no place at all.
This school’s own admissions (opens in a new tab)
Schools that set their own criteria - faith schools, grammars, academies - publish them on their own site.
Contact
- Headteacher
- James Henderson
- Address
- Minstead Avenue, Harefield, Southampton, SO18 5FW
- Telephone
- 02380463303