Redbridge Community School
Secondary · Southampton · SO16 9RJ
Graded inspection under the pre-November 2025 system
This is an overall-effectiveness grade from the previous inspection framework. The school has not yet had a report-card inspection.
Inspected 12 July 2023
Read the Ofsted report ↗At a glance
1,106 pupils · 99% of 1,112 capacity
- School type
- Foundation school
- Age range
- 11–16
- Gender
- Mixed
- Admissions
- Non-selective
- Free school meals
- 59% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 11.8% of pupils
- SEN support
- 27.4% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 5.1% of pupils
- URN
- 116453
Admissions demand: Year 7 entry, September 2026
1.03 first-choice applications per place223 places offered · 230 first-choice applications · oversubscribed
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.
GCSE results (2024/2025)
216 pupils at the end of key stage 4 in 2024/2025
Progress 8 is suspended nationally for 2024/25 and 2025/26. These cohorts sat no key stage 2 tests (COVID), so there is no baseline to measure progress from.
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)
82% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 6% moved to another state school · 12% 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.
Where pupils go after GCSEs
Destinations measured the year after leaving, latest DfE destination measures release.
Inspection history since 2015
- 30 January 2018: Good
- 26 January 2016: Requires improvement
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.
Nearby schools
- Redbridge Primary School
- Mansel Park Primary & Nursery School - Part of the Learning Federation Partnership of Schools
- Newlands Primary School
- Mason Moor Primary School, Nursery & Specialist Bases
- Holy Family Catholic Primary School - Part of the Learning Federation Partnership of Schools
- Tanners Brook Primary School
- Compass School
- GLADE School