The School Record

Published admissions and inspection figures for schools in England, from the DfE, Ofsted and local authorities.

Alderwood School

URN 116234 · All Through · Community school · Hampshire

Belle Vue Road, Aldershot, GU12 4RZ

How many families applied

Preferences expressed and offers made at Reception, as published by the Department for Education. These describe demand. They do not indicate whether any particular child would be offered a place.

In the 2025 intake, 93 families named Alderwood School as their first preference, and the school made 90 offers.

That is 1.03 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 78% of schools admitting at Reception in England that year.

More first preferences per place than 78% of comparable schools position among schools in England admitting at Reception, 2025 intake

Little change. Across the 5 most recent years held, first preferences per place averaged 0.98 in 2021–2022 and 0.97 in 2024–2025.

Applications and offers at Reception, 12 intake years
Intake 1st preferences All preferences Offers made 1st prefs per place
2025 93 158 90 1.03
2024 81 146 90 0.90
2023 74 144 88 0.84
2022 93 146 90 1.03
2021 83 136 90 0.92
2020 94 176 90 1.04
2019 90 183 90 1.00
2018 78 154 89 0.88
2017 113 207 120 0.94
2016 98 166 115 0.85
2015 95 178 90 1.06
2014 105 183 90 1.17

“Offers made” counts the offers the school made. It is not the number of places the school had, so please do not read it as one.

Ofsted

Ofsted changed its inspection framework: the current one publishes several graded areas and no single overall grade, while the previous one published an overall effectiveness grade. Each inspection below states which framework produced it.

Ofsted graded inspection (previous framework), 15 October 2024

Overall effectiveness: Not judged

Quality of education: Requires improvement

Behaviour and attitudes: Good

Personal development: Good

Leadership and management: Requires improvement

Early years: Good

Sixth form / post-16: 9

Ofsted's report for this school

Exam results

Published by the Department for Education for the whole year group. Figures for smaller cohorts are withheld by DfE to protect pupil privacy and appear here as a dash, not a zero.

Key stage 4 (GCSE)
YearAttainment 8Progress 8 Grade 4+ English & mathsEBacc grade 4+
2024/25 42.20 - 65.2% 16.8%
2023/24 39.50 -0.59
likely between -0.85 and -0.34		 51.3% 13.6%
2022/23 38.40 -1.05
likely between -1.29 and -0.81		 52.3% 20.3%

Progress 8 compares pupils here with pupils nationally who had similar results at the end of primary school; 0 is average. It is an estimate, and DfE publishes a range it is likely to fall within. Where that range spans zero, the school cannot be said to be above or below average.

Key stage 2 (end of primary)
Year Expected standard in reading, writing & maths Higher standard Average reading score Average maths score
2024/25 70.0% 14.0% 107.0 106.0
2023/24 74.0% 8.0% 107.0 107.0
2022/23 69.0% 9.0% 107.0 106.0

Teachers staying and leaving

These come from the School Workforce Census, which follows each teacher into the next year. The numbers count full-time jobs, so a teacher who works half the week counts as half. They are not a count of people.

Census yearTeachers (FTE) Still there a year later Moved to another state school Left state schools Left in total
2024/25 95.1 86.9 5.0 3.2 8.6%
2023/24 88.2 82.2 3.0 3.0 6.8%
2022/23 85.6 73.8 6.0 5.8 13.8%
2021/22 82.6 68.6 6.0 8.0 16.9%
2020/21 79.6 68.8 3.8 7.0 13.6%
2019/20 76.3 66.7 8.0 1.6 12.6%

This is turnover among teachers. It says nothing about the headteacher or the senior leadership team: DfE publishes leadership retention separately and we do not hold it by school.

Catchment area

Hampshire publishes an admission zone for this school (ALDERWOOD SCHOOL (PRIMARY PHASE)).

Covers: 176 live postcodes across 1.557 km².

35 of the postcodes in this zone sit within 50 m of its edge. We place an address by its postcode centroid, not the address itself, so for those a specific house may fall the other side of the line.

Hampshire publishes an admission zone for this school (ALDERWOOD SCHOOL (SECONDARY PHASE)).

Covers: 938 live postcodes across 16.433 km².

20 of the postcodes in this zone sit within 50 m of its edge. We place an address by its postcode centroid, not the address itself, so for those a specific house may fall the other side of the line.

Where it is

The shaded shape is the area the council published for Alderwood School. Living inside it is not the same as being offered a place. Councils use these areas in different ways. Some use them to help decide who gets a place when a school is full. Some use them to decide who gets free school transport. Many use them for both. Check with the council which it is here. The edge is drawn to about 20 metres, so do not use it to judge a single house.

The 1 nearest all through schools we hold figures for, by straight-line distance from Alderwood School.

Nearby and related

Where these figures come from

This page was made on 9 September 2026. "Retrieved" means the day we downloaded the data. It is not the day the data was written, so the figures can be about an earlier year. How we compare schools.