Oak Lodge School

Community special school · Mixed · ages 11–16Hampshire, Southampton SO45school website

Almost all Year 11 leavers stay in education (England 86%); as a special school, its figures are not comparable with mainstream schools.

Where this school leads
97%

of Year 11 leavers stayed in education · Hampshire 85% · England 86% · DfE destination measures, pupils who left in 2023

Knowledge sphere of Oak Lodge School: fields of knowledge mapped by the subjects taken here, by ISCED levelLanguage & Communication · ISCED 1 Primary: 0%Language & Communication · ISCED 2 Lower secondary (Key Stage 3): 100%Language & Communication · ISCED 3 Upper secondary (GCSE, A level): 1%Language & Communication · ISCED 4 Post-secondary: 0%Language & Communication · ISCED 5 Short-cycle tertiary: 0%Language & Communication · ISCED 6 Bachelor's: 0%Language & Communication · ISCED 7 Master's: 0%Language & Communication · ISCED 8 Doctoral: 0%Mathematics & Statistics · ISCED 1 Primary: 0%Mathematics & Statistics · ISCED 2 Lower secondary (Key Stage 3): 100%Mathematics & Statistics · ISCED 3 Upper secondary (GCSE, A level): 4%Mathematics & Statistics · ISCED 4 Post-secondary: 0%Mathematics & Statistics · ISCED 5 Short-cycle tertiary: 0%Mathematics & Statistics · ISCED 6 Bachelor's: 0%Mathematics & Statistics · ISCED 7 Master's: 0%Mathematics & Statistics · ISCED 8 Doctoral: 0%Natural Sciences · ISCED 1 Primary: 0%Natural Sciences · ISCED 2 Lower secondary (Key Stage 3): 100%Natural Sciences · ISCED 3 Upper secondary (GCSE, A level): 12%Natural Sciences · ISCED 4 Post-secondary: 0%Natural Sciences · ISCED 5 Short-cycle tertiary: 0%Natural Sciences · ISCED 6 Bachelor's: 0%Natural Sciences · ISCED 7 Master's: 0%Natural Sciences · ISCED 8 Doctoral: 0%Digital & ICT Skills · ISCED 1 Primary: 0%Digital & ICT Skills · ISCED 2 Lower secondary (Key Stage 3): 100%Digital & ICT Skills · ISCED 3 Upper secondary (GCSE, A level): 1%Digital & ICT Skills · ISCED 4 Post-secondary: 0%Digital & ICT Skills · ISCED 5 Short-cycle tertiary: 0%Digital & ICT Skills · ISCED 6 Bachelor's: 0%Digital & ICT Skills · ISCED 7 Master's: 0%Digital & ICT Skills · ISCED 8 Doctoral: 0%Engineering & Manufacturing · ISCED 1 Primary: 0%Engineering & Manufacturing · ISCED 2 Lower secondary (Key Stage 3): 100%Engineering & Manufacturing · ISCED 3 Upper secondary (GCSE, A level): 7%Engineering & Manufacturing · ISCED 4 Post-secondary: 0%Engineering & Manufacturing · ISCED 5 Short-cycle tertiary: 0%Engineering & Manufacturing · ISCED 6 Bachelor's: 0%Engineering & Manufacturing · ISCED 7 Master's: 0%Engineering & Manufacturing · ISCED 8 Doctoral: 0%Health & Safety · ISCED 1 Primary: 0%Health & Safety · ISCED 2 Lower secondary (Key Stage 3): 100%Health & Safety · ISCED 3 Upper secondary (GCSE, A level): 24%Health & Safety · ISCED 4 Post-secondary: 0%Health & Safety · ISCED 5 Short-cycle tertiary: 0%Health & Safety · ISCED 6 Bachelor's: 0%Health & Safety · ISCED 7 Master's: 0%Health & Safety · ISCED 8 Doctoral: 0%Business & Administration · ISCED 1 Primary: 0%Business & Administration · ISCED 2 Lower secondary (Key Stage 3): 100%Business & Administration · ISCED 3 Upper secondary (GCSE, A level): 0%Business & Administration · ISCED 4 Post-secondary: 0%Business & Administration · ISCED 5 Short-cycle tertiary: 0%Business & Administration · ISCED 6 Bachelor's: 0%Business & Administration · ISCED 7 Master's: 0%Business & Administration · ISCED 8 Doctoral: 0%Law & Public Administration · ISCED 1 Primary: 0%Law & Public Administration · ISCED 2 Lower secondary (Key Stage 3): 100%Law & Public Administration · ISCED 3 Upper secondary (GCSE, A level): 0%Law & Public Administration · ISCED 4 Post-secondary: 0%Law & Public Administration · ISCED 5 Short-cycle tertiary: 0%Law & Public Administration · ISCED 6 Bachelor's: 0%Law & Public Administration · ISCED 7 Master's: 0%Law & Public Administration · ISCED 8 Doctoral: 0%Social & Cultural Skills · ISCED 1 Primary: 0%Social & Cultural Skills · ISCED 2 Lower secondary (Key Stage 3): 100%Social & Cultural Skills · ISCED 3 Upper secondary (GCSE, A level): 0%Social & Cultural Skills · ISCED 4 Post-secondary: 0%Social & Cultural Skills · ISCED 5 Short-cycle tertiary: 0%Social & Cultural Skills · ISCED 6 Bachelor's: 0%Social & Cultural Skills · ISCED 7 Master's: 0%Social & Cultural Skills · ISCED 8 Doctoral: 0%Arts & Humanities · ISCED 1 Primary: 0%Arts & Humanities · ISCED 2 Lower secondary (Key Stage 3): 100%Arts & Humanities · ISCED 3 Upper secondary (GCSE, A level): 4%Arts & Humanities · ISCED 4 Post-secondary: 0%Arts & Humanities · ISCED 5 Short-cycle tertiary: 0%Arts & Humanities · ISCED 6 Bachelor's: 0%Arts & Humanities · ISCED 7 Master's: 0%Arts & Humanities · ISCED 8 Doctoral: 0%Transversal Skills · ISCED 1 Primary: 0%Transversal Skills · ISCED 2 Lower secondary (Key Stage 3): 100%Transversal Skills · ISCED 3 Upper secondary (GCSE, A level): 15%Transversal Skills · ISCED 4 Post-secondary: 0%Transversal Skills · ISCED 5 Short-cycle tertiary: 0%Transversal Skills · ISCED 6 Bachelor's: 0%Transversal Skills · ISCED 7 Master's: 0%Transversal Skills · ISCED 8 Doctoral: 0%Green & Sustainability · ISCED 1 Primary: 0%Green & Sustainability · ISCED 2 Lower secondary (Key Stage 3): 100%Green & Sustainability · ISCED 3 Upper secondary (GCSE, A level): 17%Green & Sustainability · ISCED 4 Post-secondary: 0%Green & Sustainability · ISCED 5 Short-cycle tertiary: 0%Green & Sustainability · ISCED 6 Bachelor's: 0%Green & Sustainability · ISCED 7 Master's: 0%Green & Sustainability · ISCED 8 Doctoral: 0%LanguageMathsScienceICTEngineeringHealthBusinessLawSocialArtsTransversalGreen
Ofsted
Standards kept
Places
—
Pupils
173
Free school meals
48.3%

Ofsted: Short inspection, 9 March 2023: the last full grade still stands · report. Places: the last distance at which places were offered is not on file (it comes from Hampshire’s allocation statistics). Free school meals: pupils eligible, a measure of family income.

After Year 11 · age 16

Where do pupils go at 16?

97%stayed in education after Year 11
This school97%
Hampshire85%
England86%

DfE Key Stage 4 destination measures · 32 pupils who left Year 11 in 2023

Of the 32 pupils who finished Year 11 at Oak Lodge School in 2023, none moved to a sixth form college, 94% to a further education college and none started an apprenticeship.

Stayed in education — counted only if the pupil was still there for two terms of the next year; apprenticeships and jobs are counted the same way.

Full breakdown11
MeasureOak Lodge SchoolHampshireEngland
Pupils in the cohort3214,028607,348
Any sustained destination97%92%92%
Stayed in education97%85%86%
— school sixth form0%6%34%
— sixth form college0%40%13%
— further education college94%38%37%
— other education3%1%2%
Apprenticeship0%3%3%
Employment0%4%3%
No sustained destination0%6%6%
Destination unknown3%2%3%
GCSE · Year 11 · 2025

How do GCSE results compare?

4.5Attainment 8 score, out of 90
This school4.5
Hampshire45.5
England46.1

Attainment 8 — average GCSE points across eight subjects, English and maths counted twice; grade 5 in everything scores 50.

DfE performance tables 2024/2025 · 26 pupils in Year 11

46% of pupils here are disadvantaged (England 28%). Disadvantaged pupils here scored 2.2 — below disadvantaged pupils across England (34.9).

4% got grade 5 or above in both English and maths (Hampshire 45%, England 45%).

Grade 5 — a “strong pass”; grade 4 is a “standard pass”. Progress 8 is not published for 2025: this cohort had no Key Stage 2 tests in 2020–21, so there is no baseline.

All GCSE measures10
MeasureOak Lodge SchoolHampshireEngland
Attainment 8 (average points per pupil)4.545.546.1
Grade 5 or above in English and maths4%45%45%
Grade 4 or above in English and maths4%65%65%
Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects0%34%41%
EBacc average point score0.154.024.09
Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort46%21%28%
Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils2.230.534.9
Attainment 8 — other pupils6.549.550.4
Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2)———
English as an additional language4%8%19%
Subjects · 2025

What do pupils study?

29.12%of the Key Stage 3 and GCSE curriculum mapped by the subjects taken here

Mapped — the share of the 2,029 learning outcomes the Department for Education sets for these stages that the subjects taken here cover, weighted by how many pupils take each.

DfE subject entries 2025 · curriculum catalogue by sch.today

Health & Safety24%
Green & Sustainability17%
Transversal Skills15%
Natural Sciences12%
Engineering & Manufacturing7%

Fields of knowledge — twelve fields the curriculum catalogue sorts every learning outcome into; the bars show the GCSE and A level ring.

GCSE subjects8

Entries as a share of the Year 11 cohort, and the share of entries graded 7–9 and 4–9, compared with all entries in England.

SubjectEntriesShare of cohortEnglandGrades 7–9EnglandGrades 4–9
Biology1454%23%0%45%7%
Art and Design1038%7%0%24%20%
Textiles623%2%0%27%0%
Physics415%23%—46%—
Combined Science14%65%—9%—
English Language14%89%—20%—
English Literature14%86%—21%—
Mathematics14%88%—22%—
Fields of knowledge, all stages12
Health & Safety38%
Green & Sustainability32%
Natural Sciences29%
Transversal Skills28%
Language & Communication23%
Digital & ICT Skills16%
Engineering & Manufacturing15%
Mathematics & Statistics14%
Arts & Humanities13%
Law & Public Administration7%
Social & Cultural Skills5%
Business & Administration3%

Ideas pupils meet most, weighted by the share of the cohort taking the subjects that teach them:

fraction 6.4vocabulary 5.1particle model 5.1photosynthesis 4.6adaptation 4.3percentage 4.3change of state 4.2observation 4.2measurement 3.6diffusion 3.6context 3.4power 3.3technique 3.2force 3.2grammar 3.1translation 3.1formulae 3.1critical source 3.1energy transfer 3.1temperature 3.0standard english 3.0poetry 3.0data analysis 3.0ratio 2.9

Coverage counts a subject’s outcomes in proportion to the share of the cohort entered for it; Combined Science counts as two thirds of the three separate sciences. Levels follow ISCED 2011 as UNESCO maps it for the UK: Key Stage 3 is ISCED 2; GCSE and A level are both ISCED 3. Methodology: about the data.

Careers

Which jobs use what’s taught here?

12apprenticeship standards closely match the subjects pupils take

A match of what’s taught, not of entry requirements: the standards whose knowledge and skills share the most ideas with the GCSEs and A levels taken here, weighted by how many pupils take each subject.

Level 3 / Level 6 — England’s qualification levels: 3 is A level standard, 4–5 are higher apprenticeships, 6 is a bachelor’s degree.

Skills England apprenticeship standards (Open Government Licence v3.0) · ESCO occupations, © European Union, matched by sch.today · how the match works

Water industry asset maintenance technicianLevel 3 (advanced) apprenticeship · engineering and manufacturing · uses data collection, unit conversion, ratio from Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics and 5 more · jobs: consumer electronics repair technician, industrial electrician, electrician
Process industry manufacturing technicianLevel 3 (advanced) apprenticeship · engineering and manufacturing · uses pressure, conservation of mass, energy change from Chemistry, Mathematics, Physics and 3 more · jobs: chemical engineering technician, chemical manufacturing quality technician, chemical production manager
Geoscientist (integrated degree)Level 6 degree apprenticeship · health and science · uses climate change, data collection, conduct field work from Biology, Chemistry, Computing and 2 more · jobs: geologist, geological engineer, exploration geologist
More apprenticeships9
ScientistLevel 6 degree apprenticeship · health and science · uses sampling technique, experimental design, conclusion from Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics and 1 more · jobs: physicist, analytical chemist, geneticist
Science manufacturing technician 2023Level 3 (advanced) apprenticeship · engineering and manufacturing · uses unit conversion, graph, pressure from Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics and 2 more · jobs: pharmaceutical engineer, chemical manufacturing quality technician, pharmacy technician
Junior visual effects - VFX artist or assistant technical director - ATDLevel 4 (higher) apprenticeship · creative and design · uses scale, data collection, computer systems from Art and Design, Chemistry, Physics and 4 more · jobs: 3D modeller, technical director, animation layout artist
Production assistant - screen and audioLevel 3 (advanced) apprenticeship · creative and design · uses spelling, punctuation, grammar from English Literature, English, Modern Foreign Language · jobs: factory hand, supply chain assistant, management assistant
Battery manufacturing technicianLevel 3 (advanced) apprenticeship · engineering and manufacturing · uses area, unit conversion, resistance from Chemistry, Mathematics, Physics and 2 more · jobs: battery test technician
Keeper and aquaristLevel 3 (advanced) apprenticeship · agriculture, environmental and animal care · uses sampling technique, temperature, adaptation from Biology, Science · jobs: animal care attendant, zookeeper, zoo section leader
Manufacturing engineer (degree)Level 6 degree apprenticeship · engineering and manufacturing · uses force, component selection, electrical system from Design and Technology, Science · jobs: maintenance and repair engineer, industrial engineer, production engineer
Artificial intelligence (AI) data specialistLevel 7 degree apprenticeship · digital · uses experimental design, scientific method, data presentation from Biology, English Language, Computing and 1 more · jobs: ICT intelligent systems designer
Biomedical scientistLevel 6 degree apprenticeship · health and science · uses experimental design, si unit, data presentation from Biology, Science · jobs: biomedical scientist, specialist biomedical scientist, biomedical scientist advanced
Admissions

How do you get a place?

Places at special schools are allocated through an Education, Health and Care plan with Hampshire, not by distance.

  1. Any timeAsk Hampshire’s SEND team to name the school in the child’s EHC plan; the school is consulted before a place is offered
Hampshire

Compare with nearby schools

Stayed in education at 16 · Attainment 8 · pupils

Sources: Department for Education school and college performance tables 2024/2025 (Key Stage 4 and 16–18 results, subject entries, destination measures for 2023 leavers); Get Information About Schools register as at 19 September 2026; Ofsted management information as at 31 August 2026. Small numbers are suppressed by DfE and shown as “—”. How to read these figures.