United Kingdom / Regions / New Forest
New Forest
South East, England · population ~180k · 67 state-funded schools
Median full-time pay
ONS ASHE residence basis · 2025
Median house price
ONS HPSSA-9 · Year ending Sep 2025
Median monthly rent
ONS PIPR · 2026-03
Council tax (Band D)
MHCLG / Welsh Gov · 2026-27
Crime per 1,000
ONS PFA · Year ending Dec 2025
IMD score
MHCLG IoD · 2019
Schools Good+ (legacy)
Legacy 1-4 grades only · Ofsted Feb 2026 snapshot
Schools Outstanding
Of 52 legacy-graded schools · Ofsted Feb 2026 snapshot
State-funded schools in New Forest
67 schools listed by DfE GIAS, with current judgements from the Ofsted Feb 2026 Management Information snapshot. Among schools with a current legacy Ofsted 1-4 grade (52 of 67 here), 94.3% of pupils attend schools rated Good or Outstanding — combining full OEIF graded inspections and ungraded check-ins that confirmed the school remains at its last grade.
The Last inspection column shows the most recent activity per school — graded inspection, check-in, or new-framework report card. Ofsted retired the single 1-4 grade in September 2024; new inspections produce multi-axis "report card" judgements (Leadership, Achievement, Curriculum, Behaviour, Personal development, Inclusion, Safeguarding) that aren't directly comparable to the legacy 1-4. Where a school has both an older 1-4 grade and a fresh report card, the 1-4 is shown for continuity but the report-card sub-judgments below it are the current finding. The "·" mark next to a grade indicates the value came from an ungraded check confirming the school's last full grade still applies.
Showing 20 of 67 schools.
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Ringwood School Academy | Secondary | 1,626 | Good· | 16/11/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Hounsdown School | Secondary | 1,281 | Good | 05/06/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Priestlands School | Secondary | 1,236 | Good· | 22/02/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
The Burgate School and Sixth Form | Secondary | 1,098 | Not graded | 27/11/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Noadswood School | Secondary | 1,043 | Good· | 13/10/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
The Arnewood School | Secondary | 900 | Inadequate | 19/03/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Testwood School | Secondary | 854 | Not graded | 20/11/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Abbotswood Junior School | Primary | 639 | Good· | 08/06/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Lift New Forest | Secondary | 548 | Good | 27/09/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Applemore College | Secondary | 525 | Not graded | 01/10/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Blackfield Primary and Nursery School | Primary | 435 | Good | 21/09/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Hordle CofE (VA) Primary School | Primary | 385 | Outstanding· | 09/02/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Cadland Primary School | Primary | 372 | Good | 13/03/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Ringwood Junior School | Primary | 361 | Not graded | 30/04/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Orchard Junior School | Primary | 354 | Good | 05/04/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Bransgore Church of England Primary School | Primary | 353 | Good | 15/03/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
New Milton Junior School | Primary | 341 | Good· | 08/12/2021 | OfstedWebsite |
Milford-on-Sea Church of England Primary School | Primary | 316 | Not graded | 01/10/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Foxhills Junior School | Primary | 302 | Good | 04/06/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Bartley Church of England Junior School | Primary | 296 | Good· | 16/11/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
How we sourced this
Indicators: Pay (ONS ASHE residence), house price (ONS HPSSA-9 median for England + Wales, UK HPI mean for Scotland), rent (ONS PIPR newly-signed lets for E+W, Scot Gov 2-bed advertised median for Scotland), council tax (MHCLG England + Welsh Gov Wales), crime (ONS PFA, E+W only), IMD (MHCLG IoD 2019, England only), school quality (Ofsted % of pupils in schools currently rated under the legacy 1-4 framework as Good or Outstanding, combining full OEIF grades with ungraded check-ins — England only. Schools re-inspected under Ofsted's new post-Sept-2024 report-card framework are excludedfrom this denominator and shown separately on each school's row).
Schools: joined from DfE GIAS edubasealldata snapshot (2026-05-13, the canonical UK school registry) with Ofsted's Management Information snapshot (Feb 2026, current grades and pupil counts). Coordinates converted from OSGB36 (British National Grid) to WGS84 using the standard Helmert 7-parameter transformation.
Editorial position: we surface the uncomfortable facts (knife crime per 1,000, IMD deprivation, Band D bills) alongside the affordability story. No estate-agent gloss. Where methodologies differ across UK nations (rents, deprivation, council tax) we disclose the difference rather than silently merging.
Some indicators show "—" for Scotland / Wales / Northern Ireland because each nation publishes equivalents on a different methodology that explicitly cannot be cross-compared per official guidance.