South East
Secondary schools in Portsmouth
61 schools, 28,748 pupils. Average Attainment 8 across the authority's state secondaries is 38.9.
Ofsted across Portsmouth
Good32
Requires improvement1
Outstanding1
Inadequate1
No overall grade26
35 of these schools carry a one-word grade from before September 2024, when Ofsted stopped awarding them. The remaining 26 either have no published outcome or were inspected under the current framework, which does not give an overall grade. What changed.
Secondary schools in Portsmouth
Sorted by Attainment 8. A gap of a point or two is noise, not a ranking — read the school pages for the intake-adjusted comparison.
| School | Area | Ofsted | Attainment 8 |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Edmund's Catholic SchoolVoluntary aided school | Portsmouth | Outstanding 2022 | 58.9 |
| UTC PortsmouthUniversity technical college | Portsmouth | No grade | 48.3 |
| Priory SchoolAcademy sponsor led | Southsea | Good 2022 | 44.7 |
| Trafalgar SchoolAcademy sponsor led | Portsmouth | Good 2023 | 43.5 |
| Admiral Lord Nelson SchoolAcademy converter | Portsmouth | Good 2022 | 40.4 |
| Springfield SchoolAcademy converter | Portsmouth | No grade | 39.8 |
| Ark Charter AcademyAcademy sponsor led | Southsea | No grade | 38.9 |
| Miltoncross AcademyAcademy sponsor led | Portsmouth | No grade | 36.3 |
| Castle View AcademyAcademy converter | Portsmouth | Good 2022 | 35.6 |
| The Portsmouth AcademyAcademy sponsor led | Portsmouth | Good 2022 | 33.5 |
| Mayfield SchoolAcademy sponsor led | Portsmouth | Inadequate 2022 | — |