Hightown Primary School
Southampton, SO19 6AA · Southampton local authority
Southampton’s School Grade C− better than 23% of towns in England
What stands out about Hightown Primary School
- Its own letter, D−: Key Stage 2 results near the bottom of England’s primary schools (better than 1%)
- 28% meet the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 34 points below England’s schools
- 70% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (more than England’s 25%)
- Ofsted: Good, November 2023 (shown, not graded)
- 87% of families who put it first got a place for September 2026 (26 of 30)
- Homes in its postcode sector (SO19 6) sold for a median £255,000; Southampton’s is £260,000
Results
DfE · Key Stage 2Reading, writing and maths 28%
Met the expected standard, DfE’s 3-year average 2023–2025 · higher than 1% of England’s 14,979 graded primaries · Southampton avg 58%
Each subject, 2025
Met the expected standard; the mark is England’s schools · average scaled score: reading 99, maths 94 (100 = the expected standard)
Disadvantaged pupils, 2025
Met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths: the 20 disadvantaged pupils 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 Hightown Primary School?
87% of the families who put it first got a place for September 2026.
Years when some first choices missed out: 2021 (4), 2026 (4). 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. Inspire Learning Partnership sets the admissions rules. Apply through Southampton council’s coordinated admissions.
Outline = places offered · green = families who put it first · striped = more first choices than places · the 10 most in demand
90% got their first choice
87% got their first choice
Southampton and Southampton, side by side
2023–2025All 43 graded primaries in Southampton. 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. Southampton’s schools are coloured by their letter.
Show as a table
| School | Letter | Free school meals | KS2 expected standard |
|---|---|---|---|
| Springhill Catholic Primary School | A+ | 13% | 88% |
| Mansel Park Primary & Nursery School - Part of the Learning Federation Partnership of Schools | A | 59% | 82% |
| Sinclair Primary and Nursery School - Part of the Learning Federation Partnership of Schools | A | 33% | 79% |
| Portswood Primary School | A | 29% | 78% |
| Holy Family Catholic Primary School - Part of the Learning Federation Partnership of Schools | A | 26% | 76% |
| Fairisle Junior School | A− | 44% | 75% |
| Bitterne Park Primary & Nursery School - Part of the Learning Federation Partnership of Schools | A− | 16% | 74% |
| Highfield Church of England Primary School | A− | 13% | 74% |
| St Patrick's Catholic Primary School | A− | 24% | 71% |
| Hollybrook Junior School | B | 26% | 66% |
| Banister Primary School | B | 34% | 65% |
| Tanners Brook Primary School | B | 36% | 65% |
| St Mark's Church of England School | B− | 47% | 64% |
| Ludlow Junior School | B− | 40% | 64% |
| Newlands Primary School | B− | 61% | 63% |
| Swaythling Primary School | B− | 40% | 62% |
| Mansbridge Primary School | B− | 51% | 61% |
| Redbridge Primary School | B− | 65% | 61% |
| Freemantle Church of England Community Academy | B− | 33% | 61% |
| Kanes Hill Primary School | C+ | 55% | 59% |
| Foundry Lane Primary School | C+ | 25% | 59% |
| St Denys Primary School | C | 37% | 57% |
| Shirley Junior School | C | 20% | 57% |
| St Mary's Church of England Primary School & Nursery | C | 45% | 56% |
| Bitterne Manor Primary and Nursery School | C | 29% | 55% |
| Oakwood Primary School | C | 27% | 55% |
| Beechwood Junior School | C | 31% | 55% |
| Weston Park Primary School | C | 61% | 54% |
| Sholing Junior School | C− | 26% | 53% |
| Bevois Town Primary School | C− | 42% | 52% |
| Moorlands Primary School | C− | 42% | 52% |
| Harefield Primary School | C− | 43% | 52% |
| Townhill Junior School | C− | 46% | 51% |
| Bassett Green Primary School | C− | 44% | 51% |
| St John's Primary and Nursery School | C− | 40% | 50% |
| Wordsworth Primary and Nursery School | C− | 38% | 49% |
| St Monica Primary School | D | 34% | 47% |
| Mount Pleasant Juniors | D | 46% | 45% |
| Bitterne Church of England Primary School | D | 28% | 41% |
| Valentine Primary School & Nursery | D− | 50% | 37% |
| Shirley Warren Primary & Nursery School | D− | 37% | 30% |
| Hightown Primary School | D− | 70% | 28% |
| Thornhill Primary School | D− | 66% | 17% |
Who goes here
DfE school census, January 2025226 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
Hightown Primary 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.
Graded inspection: Good, November 2023.
Living near Hightown Primary School
For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.
Home prices in SO19 6, the school’s postcode sector
Southampton property prices →Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025
By type, the 36 months to August 2026
Homes in SO19 6 sell for about the same as Southampton’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
18 state schoolsLocation
Directions ↗Southampton, SO19 6AA
Hightown Primary School: common questions
Is Hightown Primary School a good school?
By its published results, well below average: its Key Stage 2 results are better than 1% of England’s primary schools (its letter is D−), with 28% of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, against 62% for England’s schools. Ofsted: Good, November 2023.
How hard is it to get into Hightown Primary School?
For September 2026, 30 families put Hightown Primary School first and 26 of them were offered a place; 28 places were offered in all.
What is Hightown Primary School’s Ofsted rating?
Its latest inspection outcome is Good (November 2023).
How much do houses cost near Hightown Primary School?
Homes in its postcode sector, SO19 6, sold for a median £255,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (196 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; Southampton’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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