The Arnewood School
New Milton, BH25 6RS · Hampshire local authority
New Milton’s School Grade B− better than 53% of towns in England
What stands out about The Arnewood School
- Its own letter, C−: GCSE results better than 18% of England’s secondary schools
- 31% get grade 5 or above in English and maths, 17 points below England’s schools
- Room to spare: 839 pupils for 1,200 places
- Ofsted report card, March 2026: achievement needs attention, safeguarding met (shown, not graded)
- Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026 (96 of 96)
- Progress 8 of -0.84 in 2023/24, the last year DfE published it: pupils did less well at GCSE than pupils nationally with the same results at 11
- Homes in its postcode sector (BH25 6) sold for a median £325,000; New Milton’s is £310,000
Results
DfE · GCSEs 2025/26, provisional · 150 pupilsEach bar is a group of England’s 3,224 graded secondary schools. The schools The Arnewood beats are shaded green.
Attainment 8 40.4
Average grade across 8 GCSEs ×10 · higher than 21% of schools · Hampshire avg 45.6
Grade 5+ in English and maths 31%
A strong pass · higher than 16% of schools · Hampshire avg 43%
Attainment 8, three years
The mark is England’s average that year
Progress 8, 2023/24
-0.84: below average. How pupils did at GCSE against pupils nationally with the same results at 11. Not published since 2023/24 (no Key Stage 2 tests in 2020 and 2021).
Disadvantaged pupils, 2025/26
Attainment 8 for the 45 pupils DfE counts as disadvantaged (free school meals in the last 6 years, or looked after) and the rest, beside England’s schools
England’s figures are of its graded mainstream state schools, each school counted once; grammar schools are included, which is why the right-hand tail is long. Small cohorts are suppressed.
How hard is it to get a place at The Arnewood School?
Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026.
Years when some first choices missed out: 2021 (1). The council runs the coordinated admissions; each school’s rules (siblings, distance, faith) decide who gets in. DfE doesn’t publish the furthest distance offered, so check the council’s admissions booklet for that. Bourne Education Trust sets the admissions rules. Apply through Hampshire council’s coordinated admissions.
Outline = places offered · green = families who put it first · striped = more first choices than places
100% got their first choice
New Milton and Hampshire, side by side
2025/26All 69 graded secondaries in Hampshire. Schools with more pupils on free school meals usually score lower, so a school above the crowd for its free school meals is doing better than its intake predicts. New Milton’s schools are coloured by their letter.
Show as a table
| School | Letter | Free school meals | Attainment 8 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thornden School | A+ | 7% | 64.5 |
| The Westgate School | A | 11% | 59.7 |
| Kings' School | A | 18% | 58.6 |
| Bishop Challoner Catholic Secondary School | A | 11% | 58.1 |
| Court Moor School | A | 9% | 56.5 |
| Bohunt School | A | 11% | 56.5 |
| The Petersfield School | A | 15% | 56 |
| Henry Beaufort School | A− | 16% | 52.4 |
| Amery Hill School | A− | 19% | 52.3 |
| The Burgate School and Sixth Form | A− | 15% | 52.2 |
| Calthorpe Park School | A− | 12% | 51.8 |
| Testbourne Community School | A− | 16% | 51.7 |
| Swanmore College | B+ | 21% | 51.6 |
| Priestlands School | A− | 21% | 51.3 |
| Cams Hill School | A− | 13% | 51 |
| Ringwood School Academy | B+ | 19% | 50.8 |
| The Mountbatten School | B+ | 13% | 50.6 |
| Robert May's School | A− | 15% | 50.6 |
| Brookfield Community School | B+ | 13% | 50.5 |
| The Costello School | B+ | 18% | 50.4 |
| Deer Park School | B+ | 21% | 50.3 |
| The Toynbee School | B− | 20% | 49.2 |
| Oaklands Catholic School | B | 19% | 48.9 |
| Perins School | B+ | 13% | 48.8 |
| Hounsdown School | B | 18% | 48.7 |
| The Hamble School | B+ | 26% | 48.1 |
| Horndean Technology College | B− | 21% | 47.7 |
| Yateley School | B | 12% | 47.6 |
| The Vyne Community School | B− | 32% | 47.1 |
| Wyvern College | B | 22% | 46.6 |
| Harrow Way Community School | B− | 28% | 46 |
| Eggar's School | B− | 18% | 45.8 |
| The Hurst School | C+ | 15% | 45.7 |
| The Wavell School | C+ | 16% | 45.7 |
| Crofton School | C+ | 17% | 45.5 |
| Wildern School | B− | 19% | 45.4 |
| Brighton Hill Community School | B− | 19% | 45.2 |
| Frogmore Community College | C+ | 20% | 45.2 |
| King's Academy Bay House | B− | 23% | 44.9 |
| The Romsey School | B− | 25% | 44.8 |
| Oakmoor School | B− | 26% | 44.2 |
| Purbrook Park School | C | 20% | 43.8 |
| Noadswood School | C | 23% | 43.6 |
| John Hanson Community School | C | 18% | 43.4 |
| Crestwood Community School | C | 37% | 42.7 |
| Cranbourne | C− | 27% | 42.1 |
| Portchester Community School | C− | 31% | 41.3 |
| Crookhorn College | C− | 29% | 41.3 |
| Bohunt Farnborough | C | 34% | 41.2 |
| Alderwood School | C− | 30% | 41.1 |
| The Arnewood School | C− | 29% | 40.4 |
| The Cowplain School | C− | 31% | 40.1 |
| Lift New Forest | C− | 43% | 39.9 |
| Cove School | C− | 28% | 39.6 |
| The Henry Cort Community College | C− | 22% | 39.5 |
| Fareham Academy | D | 29% | 39.2 |
| Testwood School | D | 31% | 39 |
| The Clere School | C− | 29% | 38.8 |
| Everest Community Academy | D | 35% | 38.1 |
| The Hayling College | D | 30% | 37.5 |
| Applemore College | D | 32% | 37.4 |
| King's Academy Brune Park | D | 36% | 37.2 |
| Warblington School | D | 34% | 36.5 |
| Danebury School | D | 23% | 36.3 |
| Lift Winton | D | 35% | 35.9 |
| The Blue Coat School Basingstoke | D | 34% | 35.2 |
| Havant Academy | D− | 65% | 34.3 |
| Bridgemary School | D− | 42% | 31.4 |
| Park Community School | D− | 63% | 27.7 |
Who goes here
DfE school census, January 2025900 pupils. SEN support is extra help in school for a special educational need; an EHC plan is the council’s legal plan for pupils who need more.
Girls and boys
The Arnewood School’s letter
Its own results against England’s schools, not the town’s School Grade.
How school letters are worked out
Each school’s measure is compared with every graded school in England of the same phase: for primaries, the share of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (DfE’s three-year average); for secondaries, Attainment 8 and the share with grade 5 or above in English and maths, each turned into a z-score against England’s schools and averaged. The letter comes from the share of those schools it beats, in the same bands as every grade on the site. The same method gives U.S. schools their letters, against their own state.
Graded: England’s open mainstream state schools with published results (grammar schools included, which select by test). Not graded: special schools, alternative provision, nurseries, 16–19 colleges, UTCs and studio schools, Welsh schools. Ofsted plays no part.
Ofsted inspections
Shown, not graded: Ofsted is never part of a letter or the School Grade.
Report card, inspection starting March 2026.
Before the report card: Graded inspection: Inadequate, March 2024.
Living near The Arnewood School
For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.
Home prices in BH25 6, the school’s postcode sector
New Milton property prices →Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025
By type, the 36 months to August 2026
Homes in BH25 6 sell for a little over New Milton’s typical price. HM Land Registry Price Paid, standard sales. Catchments aren’t published, so the postcode sector stands in for “around the school”.
Schools within 1.6 miles
4 state schoolsLocation
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New Milton, BH25 6RS
The Arnewood School: common questions
Is The Arnewood School a good school?
By its published results, below average: its GCSE results are better than 18% of England’s secondary schools (its letter is C−), with an Attainment 8 of 40.4 and 31% getting grade 5 or above in English and maths, against 47.3 and 47% for England’s schools. Ofsted: a report card in March 2026.
How hard is it to get into The Arnewood School?
For September 2026, 96 families put The Arnewood School first and all of them were offered a place; 103 places were offered in all.
What is The Arnewood School’s Ofsted rating?
Its latest inspection (March 2026) gave a report card: achievement needs attention, safeguarding met. Ofsted stopped giving one-word overall grades in September 2024.
How much do houses cost near The Arnewood School?
Homes in its postcode sector, BH25 6, sold for a median £325,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (369 sales).
Sources: DfE Get Information about Schools (16 October 2026), Key Stage 2 performance tables (2023–2025, three-year average) and Key Stage 4 (2025/26, provisional); Ofsted state-funded school inspections as at 30 September 2026. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Also: DfE Key Stage 4 performance, schools data (2023/24 and 2024/25 final, 2025/26 provisional) and Key Stage 2 performance tables 2024/25 by subject; DfE school census, January 2025; DfE school-level applications and offers, September 2019 to 2026 entry; HM Land Registry Price Paid by postcode sector, 2010 to August 2026.
A school’s letter is our own summary of its published results against England’s schools of the same phase; New Milton’s School Grade is a separate grade, built from the results of the schools in and around the town against other towns. Map: © OpenStreetMap contributors.
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