Secondary
Testwood School
Testwood Lane, Totton, Southampton, SO40 3ZW
Key facts
- Phase
- Secondary
- Type
- Academy converter
- Ages
- 11 to 16
- Intake
- Mixed
- Pupils
- 820 of 1215 places
- Pupils per teacher
- 17.3
- Local authority
- Hampshire
- Trust
- TESTWOOD SCHOOL
Staffing23/24
- Teachers (FTE)
- 50.7
- All staff (FTE)
- 77.9
- Pupils per adult
- 11.2
- Pupils
- 876
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 November 2024
Standards maintained
An ungraded inspection, which checks whether a school remains at its previous grade rather than re-grading it. 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.
Read the full Ofsted report (opens in a new tab)GCSE results
37%
5 points below the Southampton average (42% across 20 schools)
42.9
0.8 below the Southampton average (43.7 across 20 schools)
18th 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 | 42.9 |
| EBacc average point score | 3.64 |
| Entered the EBacc | 15% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 58% |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 37% |
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 | 41% |
| 22/23 | 36% |
| 23/24 | 22% |
| 24/25 | 37% |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | -0.41 |
| 22/23 | -0.39 |
| 23/24 | -1.01 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 43.5 |
| 22/23 | 42.4 |
| 23/24 | 34.8 |
| 24/25 | 42.9 |
Testwood Lane, Totton, Southampton, SO40 3ZW
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.
Hampshire 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
- Tim Webber
- Address
- Testwood Lane, Totton, Southampton, SO40 3ZW
- Telephone
- 02380862146