The School Record

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

Harrow Way Community School

URN 116431 · Secondary · Community school · Hampshire

Harrow Way, Andover, SP10 3RH

How many families applied

Preferences expressed and offers made at Year 7, 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, 166 families named Harrow Way Community School as their first preference, and the school made 169 offers.

That is 0.98 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 56% of schools admitting at Year 7 in England that year.

More first preferences per place than 56% of comparable schools position among schools in England admitting at Year 7, 2025 intake

Little change. Across the 5 most recent years held, first preferences per place averaged 1.12 in 2021–2022 and 1.04 in 2024–2025.

Applications and offers at Year 7, 12 intake years
Intake 1st preferences All preferences Offers made 1st prefs per place
2025 166 346 169 0.98
2024 224 482 203 1.10
2023 204 440 186 1.10
2022 220 419 202 1.09
2021 238 436 206 1.16
2020 216 394 190 1.14
2019 221 394 177 1.25
2018 227 412 189 1.20
2017 229 369 210 1.09
2016 221 404 180 1.23
2015 174 306 178 0.98
2014 145 293 151 0.96

“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 ungraded inspection, 15 July 2022

School remains Good

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 44.40 - 59.9% 17.1%
2023/24 43.00 0.04
likely between -0.17 and 0.25
59.8% 16.1%
2022/23 47.00 0.01
likely between -0.19 and 0.21
61.9% 14.3%

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.

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 63.6 56.5 0.1 7.0 11.2%
2023/24 66.2 54.6 7.2 4.4 17.5%
2022/23 69.4 60.4 5.6 3.4 13.0%
2021/22 69.5 62.0 4.6 2.9 10.8%
2020/21 61.5 58.5 3.0 0.0 4.9%
2019/20 58.5 57.5 1.0 0.0 1.7%

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 (HARROW WAY COMMUNITY SCHOOL).

Covers: 463 live postcodes across 44.753 km².

24 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 Harrow Way Community 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 6 nearest secondary schools we hold figures for, by straight-line distance from Harrow Way Community 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.