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Trafalgar School[1]

Secondary · ages 11–16

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Headline results

Attainment 8
A8 40 40.1 2025/26[2]

Results

GCSE (key stage 4)

Attainment 8
40.1 2025/26[2]
Grade 5+ in English & maths
27% 2025/26[2]
Grade 7+ in English & maths
2.6% 2025/26[2]
Progress 8
-0.19 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 Grade 7+ in English & maths Progress 8
2024/25 43.5[5] 37.6%[5]
2023/24 37.8[3] 22.9%[3] -0.19[3]
2022/23 38.7[6] 29%[6] -0.40[6]
2021/22 39.8[7] 34%[7] -0.60[7]

Destinations after GCSEs

Sustained education, apprenticeship or employment
89% 2022/23[8]
School sixth form
2% 2022/23[8]
Sixth-form college
1% 2022/23[8]
Further education college
78% 2022/23[8]
Apprenticeship
3% 2022/23[8]
Employment
5% 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 92%[9] 0%[9] 1%[9] 77%[9] 5%[9] 9%[9]
2020/21 89%[10] 0%[10] 0%[10] 80%[10] 5%[10] 4%[10]
2019/20 91%[11] 0%[11] 26%[11] 55%[11] 7%[11] 4%[11]
2018/19 81%[12] 0%[12] 27%[12] 44%[12] 7%[12] 3%[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
2 May 2018[13]
Type
Academy First Section 5[13]
Report published
29 May 2018[13]
Outcomes for pupils
Requires improvement[13]
Overall effectiveness
Good[13]
Effectiveness of leadership and management
Good[13]
Personal development, behaviour and welfare
Good[13]
Quality of teaching, learning and assessment
Good[13]

Competition to get in

Applications and offers, Year 7

Applications per place
2.9 Entry Sept 2026[14]
Applications (any preference)
650 Entry Sept 2026[14]
First preferences
192 Entry Sept 2026[14]
Places offered
224 Entry Sept 2026[14]
First preferences per place
0.9 Entry Sept 2026[14]
Earlier years
Entry Applications First preferences Places offered Per place First preferences per place
Entry Sept 2025 698[14] 269[14] 199[14] 3.5[14] 1.4[14]
Entry Sept 2024 612[14] 240[14] 215[14] 2.8[14] 1.1[14]
Entry Sept 2023 447[14] 196[14] 225[14] 2.0[14] 0.9[14]
Entry Sept 2022 342[14] 201[14] 215[14] 1.6[14] 0.9[14]

Admissions

Places (published admission number)
220 Entry Sept 2027[15]

Character & practicalities

Type
Academy sponsor led[1]
Ages
11–16[1]
Boys / girls
Mixed[1]
Admissions
Non-selective[1]
Sixth form
No[1]
Boarding
No boarders[1]
Capacity
1000[1]
Trust
THE SALTERNS ACADEMY TRUST[1]
Local authority
Portsmouth[1]
Website
www.trafalgarschool.org.uk[1]
District
Portsmouth[16]
Postcode
PO2 9RJ[1]
URN
141875[1]

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

Pupils

Number on roll
1041 2024/25[17]
English as an additional language
11.6% 2024/25[17]
SEN support
16.5% 2024/25[17]
EHC plan
4.6% 2024/25[17]
Free school meals in the last 6 years
38.7% 2024/25[17]

Pupils' ethnicity 2025/26

White
82.9%[18]
Mixed
6.1%[18]
Asian
4.8%[18]
Black
4.1%[18]
Any other ethnic group
1.4%[18]
Unclassified
0.8%[18]

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

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 final. Period 2023/24, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  4. Department for Education: Key stage 4 performance 2024/25: data guidance. Period 2024/25. Archived copy; original. Licence: OGL-3.0.
    Quote
    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.
  5. Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 final. Period 2024/25, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  6. Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 final. Period 2022/23, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  7. Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 final. Period 2021/22, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  8. Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 destinations. Period 2022/23, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  9. Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 destinations. Period 2021/22, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  10. Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 destinations. Period 2020/21, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  11. Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 destinations. Period 2019/20, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  12. Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS4 destinations. Period 2018/19, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  13. Ofsted: State-funded schools inspections and outcomes. Period 2017/18. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  14. 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.
  15. trafalgarschool.org.uk: trafalgarschool.org.uk — Admissions policy 2027-28 (PDF). Period 2026-10-16. Licence: copyright-quoted.
    Quote
    For 2027/2028 the published admission number (PAN) is 220. (p. 2)
  16. 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.
  17. Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: School census. Period 2024/25, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
  18. 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.