New Forest Small School Ltd[1]
Independent · ages 3–17
Headline results
No headline results are published for this school in the latest two years.
Results
GCSE (key stage 4)
- Attainment 8
- 37 2025/26[2]
- Grade 5+ in English & maths
- 37.5% 2025/26[2]
- Grade 7+ in English & maths
- 12.5% 2025/26[2]
- Progress 8, 2025/26
- Not calculated[3]
- Progress 8, 2024/25
- Not calculated[3]
- All results, 2020/21
- Not published (exams cancelled, COVID-19)[4]
- All results, 2019/20
- Not published (exams cancelled, COVID-19)[5]
IGCSEs don't count towards Attainment 8, so it understates many independent schools.
Ofsted
- Inspected by
- Independent Schools Inspectorate (ISI)[10]
ISI inspection
- Inspection
- October 2025[11]
- Framework
- Framework from September 2023[11]
- Leadership and governance
- Standards met[11]
- Quality of education
- Standards met[11]
- Health and wellbeing
- Standards met[11]
- Social and economic education
- Standards met[11]
- Safeguarding
- Standards met[11]
Quality of education
- ISI recommended: The school should offer more varied activities so pupils can explore new skills and interests.
Social and economic education
- ISI recommended: The school should improve careers guidance so pupils can make informed choices about future pathways and careers.
Previous ISI inspections: 2023, 2022 (2023 report, 2022 report).
Findings of the Independent Schools Inspectorate (ISI), restated in our own words: not ISI's wording. Read the full report on ISI's website.
Competition to get in
No published data for this school.
Character & practicalities
Fees
No fees published on the school's website that we could verify.
- Type
- Other independent school[1]
- Ages
- 3–17[1]
- Boys / girls
- Mixed[1]
- Boarding
- No boarders[1]
- Capacity
- 77[1]
- Local authority
- Hampshire[1]
- Website
- www.newforestsmallschool.com[1]
- Nursery classes
- Has Nursery Classes[10]
- Special classes
- No Special Classes[10]
- Section 41 (can be named in an EHC plan)
- Not approved[10]
- District
- New Forest[12]
- Postcode
- SO43 7BU[1]
- URN
- 136112[1]
School details as recorded in Get Information About Schools on 14 Oct 2026.
Pupils
- Number on roll
- 65 2024/25[13]
- SEN support
- 21.5% 2024/25[13]
- EHC plan
- 7.7% 2024/25[13]
- Free school meals in the last 6 years
- 0% 2024/25[13]
Sources
- Department for Education: Get Information About Schools: all establishments. Period 2026-10-14, published 2026-10-14. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
- Department for Education: Performance tables schools data (explore education statistics). Period 2025/26, provisional, published 2026-10-15. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
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Department for Education: Key stage 4 performance 2024/25: data guidance. Period 2024/25.
Archived copy; original.
Licence: OGL-3.0.
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It is not possible to calculate Progress 8 for academic years 2024/25 and 2025/26 due to gaps in the baseline caused by COVID-19 disruption.
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Department for Education: Key stage 4 performance 2020/21. Period 2020/21.
Archived copy; original.
Licence: OGL-3.0.
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Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the summer exam series for the 2020/21 academic year was cancelled
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Department for Education: Key stage 4 performance 2019/20. Period 2019/20.
Licence: OGL-3.0.
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Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the summer exam series was cancelled in 2020
- Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 final. Period 2023/24, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
- Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 final. Period 2022/23, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
- Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 final. Period 2021/22, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
- Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 final. Period 2017/18, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
- Department for Education: Get Information About Schools: all establishments (independent schools' inspectorate and provision). Period 2026-10-17, published 2026-10-17. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
- Independent Schools Inspectorate: School inspection report, New Forest Small School, October 2025. Period 2026-10-17. Licence: all-rights-reserved (restated only, D71).
- Office for National Statistics: Parish to Ward to Local Authority District (May 2026) Lookup in EW. Period 2026-05-01. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
- Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: School census. Period 2024/25, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.