Lift Winton[1]

Secondary · ages 11–16

Headline results

Attainment 8: A8 36 35.9 2025/26[2]

Results

GCSE (key stage 4)

Attainment 8: 35.9 2025/26[2]
Grade 5+ in English & maths: 22.8% 2025/26[2]
Grade 7+ in English & maths: 3.7% 2025/26[2]
Progress 8: -0.44 2023/24[3]
Progress 8, 2025/26: Not calculated[4]
Progress 8, 2024/25: Not calculated[4]

Earlier years
Year	Attainment 8	Grade 5+ in English & maths	Progress 8
2024/25	37.9[5]	26%[5]
2023/24	35.7[3]	22.9%[3]	-0.44[3]
2022/23	37.2[6]	25%[6]	-0.55[6]
2021/22	37.3[7]	32%[7]	-0.41[7]

Destinations after GCSEs

Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment: 88% 2022/23[8]
School sixth form: 1% 2022/23[8]
Sixth-form college: 23% 2022/23[8]
Further education college: 57% 2022/23[8]
Apprenticeship: 1% 2022/23[8]
Employment: 4% 2022/23[8]

Earlier leavers
Left in	Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment	School sixth form	Sixth-form college	Further education college	Apprenticeship	Employment
2021/22	89%[9]	2%[9]	17%[9]	62%[9]	4%[9]	4%[9]
2020/21	90%[10]	1%[10]	12%[10]	74%[10]	0%[10]	3%[10]
2019/20	89%[11]	0%[11]	25%[11]	60%[11]	0%[11]	4%[11]
2018/19	95%[12]	1%[12]	16%[12]	70%[12]	3%[12]	4%[12]

Shares of the pupils who left in the year shown. Russell Group and Oxford or Cambridge figures were published for leavers up to 2019/20 only.

Ofsted

Latest inspection: 7 Mar 2023[13]
Type: Section 8 inspection of good and outstanding schools[13]
Report published: 15 May 2023[13]
Safeguarding is effective: Yes[13]
Outcomes for ungraded and monitoring inspections: School remains Good[13]

Earlier inspections
Inspection	Type	Overall
17 Jan 2018[14]	Requires Improvement S5 Reinspection Visit 1[14]	Good[14]
Date not published[15]	Special Measures S5 ReInspection[15]	Requires improvement[15]

Competition to get in

Applications and offers, Year 7

Applications per place: 1.1 Entry Sept 2026[16]
Applications (any preference): 184 Entry Sept 2026[16]
First preferences: 111 Entry Sept 2026[16]
Places offered: 171 Entry Sept 2026[16]
First preferences per place: 0.6 Entry Sept 2026[16]

Earlier years
Entry	Applications	First preferences	Places offered	Per place	First preferences per place
Entry Sept 2025	233[16]	147[16]	176[16]	1.3[16]	0.8[16]
Entry Sept 2024	312[16]	182[16]	226[16]	1.4[16]	0.8[16]
Entry Sept 2023	258[16]	148[16]	236[16]	1.1[16]	0.6[16]
Entry Sept 2022	264[16]	174[16]	213[16]	1.2[16]	0.8[16]

Character & practicalities

Type: Academy sponsor led[1]
Ages: 11–16[1]
Boys / girls: Mixed[1]
Admissions: Non-selective[1]
Capacity: 600[1]
Trust: LIFT SCHOOLS[1]
Local authority: Hampshire[1]
Website: https://www.liftwinton.org/[1]
District: Test Valley [17]
Postcode: SP10 2PS[1]
URN: 138920[1]

School details as recorded in Get Information About Schools on 14 Oct 2026.

Pupils

Number on roll: 1031 2024/25[18]
English as an additional language: 12.9% 2024/25[18]
SEN support: 17.9% 2024/25[18]
EHC plan: 7.2% 2024/25[18]
Free school meals in the last 6 years: 36.3% 2024/25[18]

Pupils' ethnicity 2025/26

White: 83.5%[19]
Mixed: 4.4%[19]
Asian: 4.6%[19]
Black: 5.3%[19]
Any other ethnic group: 1.2%[19]
Unclassified: 0.9%[19]

The school census's major ethnic groups as shares of the school's pupils, summed by us from the published counts. For information only: never used to rank, filter or colour schools.

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.
Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 final. Period 2023/24, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
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.
Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 final. Period 2024/25, 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 destinations. Period 2022/23, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 destinations. Period 2021/22, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 destinations. Period 2020/21, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 destinations. Period 2019/20, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
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Ofsted: State-funded schools inspections and outcomes. Period 2022/23. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Ofsted: State-funded schools inspections and outcomes. Period 2017/18. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Ofsted: State-funded schools inspections and outcomes. Period 2015/16. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
Department for Education: Primary and secondary school applications and offers: school level. Period Entry Sept 2026, final, published 2026-06-29. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
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.
Department for Education: Schools, pupils and their characteristics: school level underlying data. Period 2025/26, published 2026-06-04. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.