Bassett Green Primary School
Primary · Southampton · SO16 3BZ
Report-card inspection (current system, from November 2025)
The headline grade shown is the Achievement area of the school's report card.
Inspected 20 January 2026 · report published 24 March 2026
Read the Ofsted report ↗At a glance
412 pupils · 92% of 450 capacity
- School type
- Foundation school
- Age range
- 4–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Free school meals
- 43.9% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 50.2% of pupils
- SEN support
- 13.6% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 3.8% of pupils
- Website
- www.bassettgreen.net/
- URN
- 131839
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
1.00 first-choice applications per place48 places offered · 48 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)
85 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)
95% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 5% moved to another state school
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
- 20 January 2026: Expected standard
- 23 March 2021: Requires Improvement monitoring Visit 1
- 15 May 2019: Requires improvement
- 28 February 2017: Requires improvement
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.
Nearby schools
- Swaythling Primary School
- Cantell School
- Hardmoor Nursery & Early Years Centre - Part of the Learning Federation Partnership of Schools
- Portswood Primary School
- Highfield Church of England Primary School
- Saint George Catholic Voluntary Aided College Southampton
- Great Oaks School
- Bitterne Park Primary & Nursery School - Part of the Learning Federation Partnership of Schools