Bridgemary School, Gosport

Ofsted's report card from its 30 June 2026 inspection grades Bridgemary School on 6 areas: 5 needs attention and 1 urgent improvement. Report cards replaced single-word judgements in November 2025, on a five-point scale from exceptional to urgent improvement.

Attendance and behaviour - Needs attention. "Too many pupils, including disadvantaged pupils, do not attend school as often as they need to."

Curriculum and teaching - Needs attention. "Teachers' delivery of the curriculum is inconsistent."

Inclusion - Needs attention. "Leaders' work with disadvantaged pupils is not precise enough."

Leadership and governance - Needs attention. "Leaders have not acted swiftly enough to embed the changes necessary since the previous inspection."

Personal development and wellbeing - Needs attention. "At key stage 4, pupils' wider education, including learning about staying safe and healthy relationships, is not taught as consistently as it is for pupils in key stage 3."

Achievement - Urgent improvement. "Pupils do not achieve as well as they should."

Safeguarding standards were met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "Leaders must make sure that pupils' attainment increases by the end of key stage 4 so that pupils are better prepared for their next stage of education, employment or training"; "Leaders should continue to refine their attendance strategy, particularly for vulnerable pupils, disadvantaged pupils, mid-year admissions and pupils who are persistently absent, so that pupils attend school often and persistent absence is reduced"; "Leaders should ensure that teachers have a clear understanding of gaps in pupils' knowledge and learning and then use this information to resolve misconceptions swiftly and provide more effective support"; "Leaders should ensure that teaching is consistently ambitious and matched appropriately to pupils' needs"; "Leaders should ensure that additional funding is used effectively and that its impact on pupils' outcomes is evaluated rigorously"; "Leaders should make sure that the personal development programme at key stage 4 is delivered consistently so that it enables pupils to be fully prepared for life in modern Britain".

In 2026, pupils at Bridgemary School averaged an Attainment 8 score of 31.4, the average grade across their best eight GCSEs. The average state school scored 45.6 in Hampshire and 47 across England.

16% passed English and maths at grade 5 or above, against 43% in Hampshire and 47% in England.

That is down from 33.8 in 2025.

Its most recent Progress 8 score, for 2024, was -1.01: pupils made well below average progress compared with pupils nationally who started secondary school at the same level. Progress 8 was not published for 2026.

Disadvantaged pupils averaged an Attainment 8 of 26.6, against 34.3 for other pupils at the school - a gap of 7.7 points.

Pupils sat GCSEs in 21 subjects; after English and maths, the most popular were Combined Science, History and Business Studies.

For September 2026 entry, 155 families put Bridgemary School as their first choice and 255 named it as one of their preferences, for 175 places offered. It had fewer first-choice applications than places. Every family who put it first was offered a place there for 2026 entry.

The nearest other state secondary schools to Bridgemary School are King's Academy Brune Park (1.2 miles, Attainment 8 37.2); Crofton School (1.3 miles, Attainment 8 45.5); Fareham Academy (1.8 miles, Good, Attainment 8 39.2); and Cams Hill School (2 miles, Good, Attainment 8 51).

Each of them had higher 2026 results than Bridgemary School.

Bridgemary School is one of 45 schools run by The Kemnal Academies Trust, an academy trust.

Across the trust's secondary schools, pupils averaged an Attainment 8 score of 38.2 in 2024/25.

Of the 166 pupils who finished Year 11 in 2023/24, 85% stayed in education or training for at least two terms, including 45% to a further education college, 1% to an apprenticeship and 4% into work.

42.1% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, well above the average state school (25%), and 5% speak English as an additional language, against 18.8% on average, according to the 2026 school census.

The nearest railway station is Fareham Rail Station, about 2.2 miles away in a straight line.

18 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Bridgemary School (nw-bound), 130 metres away.

Measured by the 2025 English Indices of Deprivation, the neighbourhood Bridgemary School stands in is among the 20% most deprived neighbourhoods in England. This describes where the school is, not where its pupils live.

In August 2026, police recorded 139 crimes within a mile of the school, most often violence and sexual offences, criminal damage and arson and anti-social behaviour. That is well above the typical figure around schools in Hampshire (72), as is usual near a town centre.

In 2024/25, Bridgemary School issued 299 suspensions, 37.8 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and 2 permanent exclusions.

The primary schools closest to Bridgemary School are Holbrook Primary School (0.1 miles), Bedenham Primary School (0.3 miles), Peel Common Primary School (0.4 miles) and Woodcot Primary School (0.6 miles). Admission does not depend on which primary a child attends unless the school's policy names feeder schools.