William Gilpin Church of England Primary School
Primary · Lymington · SO41 5QG
Report-card inspection (current system, from November 2025)
The headline grade shown is the Achievement area of the school's report card.
Inspected 10 March 2026 · report published 12 May 2026
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74 pupils · 62% of 119 capacity
- School type
- Voluntary aided school
- Age range
- 4–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Free school meals
- 16.2% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 5.1% of pupils
- SEN support
- 14.1% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 12.8% of pupils
- URN
- 116353
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
1.00 first-choice applications per place1 places offered · 1 first-choice applications · roughly balanced
First-choice applications per place, by entry year
Applications and offers on national offer day, DfE. A ratio above 1.00 means more families named this school first choice than there were places.
Key stage 2 results (2024/2025)
12 pupils at the end of key stage 2 in 2024/2025
Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025. “Suppressed” means the DfE withholds figures for very small cohorts.
Attendance (2025/26 autumn term)
Autumn-term absence, DfE pupil absence data. Lower is better.
Staffing
Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.
Teacher retention (2024/25)
53% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 16% moved to another state school · 31% left the state-funded sector
School Workforce Census, DfE. The ratio counts full-time-equivalent qualified teachers; retention follows teachers in post one November to the next. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Spending per pupil
Total expenditure ÷ pupils, council-maintained school finance return (DfE Schools Financial Benchmarking, latest year). Higher spending is not a measure of quality. It often reflects greater pupil need or a smaller school. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Inspection history since 2015
- 10 March 2026: Urgent improvement
- 26 January 2022: School remains Good
- 14 February 2017: Yes - improving (good)
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.
Nearby schools
- Southlands School
- Hill House School
- Lymington Junior School
- Lymington Church of England Infant School
- South Baddesley Church of England Primary School & Nursery
- Pennington Church of England Primary School
- Our Lady and St Joseph Catholic Primary School - the Learning Federation Partnership of Schools
- Priestlands School