Redlands Primary School, Fareham

Ofsted's report card from its 7 July 2026 inspection grades Redlands Primary School on 7 areas: 7 expected standard. Report cards replaced single-word judgements in November 2025, on a five-point scale from exceptional to urgent improvement.

Achievement - Expected standard. "On the whole, pupils achieve well in this school."

Attendance and behaviour - Expected standard. "Pupils attend school well, including pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities and disadvantaged pupils."

Curriculum and teaching - Expected standard. "Pupils study a broad and ambitious curriculum."

Early years - Expected standard. "Children get off a positive start in early years."

Inclusion - Expected standard. "Leaders are aspirational for all pupils."

Leadership and governance - Expected standard. "Leaders have high expectations for all pupils."

Personal development and wellbeing - Expected standard. "Leaders have developed a coherent and well sequenced personal development programme that reflects pupils' needs, the school's context and the wider world well."

Safeguarding standards were met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "Leaders should continue to strengthen the implementation of the writing curriculum so that pupils develop greater accuracy in their writing skills, including across the wider curriculum"; "Leaders should continue their work to improve pupils' knowledge and vocabulary further so that pupils achieve highly across the whole curriculum, including in early years"; "Leaders need to ensure that the renewed policies and practices are fully embedded, applied and robustly monitored and lead to consistently strong standards across the school".

In 2025, 76% of Year 6 pupils at Redlands Primary School reached the expected standard in reading and 78% in maths. At the average state primary the figures were 77% and 75% in Hampshire and 77% and 75% across England.

Results rose from 65% in reading and 67% in maths in 2024.

For September 2026 entry, 39 families put Redlands Primary School as their first choice and 73 named it as one of their preferences, for 40 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 primary schools to Redlands Primary School are Wallisdean Junior School (0.7 miles, Good, 76% reading, 75% maths); Wallisdean Infant School (0.7 miles, Outstanding); Harrison Primary School (0.8 miles, Outstanding, 87% reading, 90% maths); and St Jude's Catholic Primary School (0.9 miles, Good, 71% reading, 79% maths).

Redlands Primary School's 2025 results were higher than 2 of these 3 schools.

4.8% speak English as an additional language, against 18.8% on average, according to the 2026 school census.

In 2026, 45 pupils (14.4%) received SEN support and 21 (6.7%) had an education, health and care plan, against 16.2% and 4.6% at the average state school. The most common need among them is social, emotional and mental health needs.

The nearest railway station is Fareham Rail Station, about 1030 metres away (roughly a 13-minute walk).

8 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Redlands Lane BRT (se-bound), 180 metres away.

In August 2026, police recorded 199 crimes within a mile of the school, most often violence and sexual offences, anti-social behaviour and public order offences. That is well above the typical figure around schools in Hampshire (72), as is usual near a town centre.

In 2024/25, Redlands Primary School issued 8 suspensions, 2.6 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and no permanent exclusions.

The secondary schools closest to Redlands Primary School are Fareham Academy (0.5 miles), Cams Hill School (1.2 miles), Bridgemary School (1.5 miles) and Crofton School (1.8 miles).