Bassett Green Primary School

Bassett Green Primary School is performing well, demonstrating a strong commitment to safeguarding and pupil achievement. Overall, pupils are accumulating appropriate knowledge and skills across the curriculum, achieving well in reading, writing, and mathematics, with recent national test results reflecting improvements in their performance, particularly for disadvantaged pupils and those with special educational needs. The school's curriculum is broad, effectively prioritizing foundational skills, which is supported by a strong governance structure that holds leaders accountable. However, while students generally feel safe and well-supported, the school faces challenges in improving attendance, particularly among certain groups of pupils.

Strengths

• Strong commitment to safeguarding, ensuring pupils feel safe and cared for.
• Broad curriculum effectively prioritizing foundational knowledge in reading, writing, and mathematics.
• Pupils enjoy reading and actively participate in book-related activities from an early age.
• Leaders demonstrate high ambition for all pupils, tailoring support effectively for disadvantaged and SEND students.
• Strong professional development opportunities for staff, enhancing teaching practices.

Areas for Improvement

• Strategies for improving attendance are not fully effective for all groups of pupils.
• Variability in support for children's language and vocabulary development in early years.

Admissions: local authority offers data from the Department for Education. A school is oversubscribed when at least 5% of the families who put it first were not offered a place, and undersubscribed when everyone who put it first got in but 10% or more of its places were unfilled in the Department's school capacity survey (the latest survey is used for entry years it does not cover). Places: Department for Education, School capacity, from local authorities' annual survey as at 1 May. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024–25); the survey was not run in 2020. Places include sixth form places. Forecasts are the local authority's own for the school's planning area, an area it uses to plan places that is not the school's catchment area. The forecast starts from a head count in 2025; the dashed line is the Department's estimate of places in that area, including those the authority has firm plans for. Planned places are cumulative, and only those with firm plans are counted.

In 2024–25 pupils at Bassett Green Primary School attended 94.1% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 15.7% of pupils were persistently absent, missing at least one session in ten (nationally 13.0%).

Sessions missed

Pupils persistently absent

Source: Department for Education, Pupil absence in schools in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). Persistent absence means missing 10% or more of sessions; severe absence means 50% or more. No figures were published for 2019/20.

In 2024–25, 2.2% of pupils at Bassett Green Primary School were suspended at least once (nationally 1.1%). No pupils were permanently excluded.

Pupils suspended at least once

Source: Department for Education, Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). A pupil can be suspended more than once, so suspensions per 100 pupils can be higher than the share of pupils suspended. Very small numbers are hidden by the DfE. Exclusion figures dropped in 2020 and 2021 because of school closures.

In 2025–26 Bassett Green Primary School had 18.6 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 4.9% were no longer at the school a year later (nationally 15.7%).

Pupils per teacher

Teachers who left the school within a year

Source: Department for Education, School workforce in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). Pupils per teacher counts full-time-equivalent pupils and teachers. Turnover is the share of a year's teachers (full-time equivalent) who were not at the school the following year, whether they moved to another school or left state-funded teaching. Turnover and sickness figures run one year behind the ratios. Sick leave is the share of teachers who took at least one day in the year, so it swings widely at small schools, where a few teachers can make it 0% or 100%. The national figures are for all state schools of the same type.

In 2025–26, 18.0% of pupils at Bassett Green Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 4.4% had an education, health and care (EHC) plan (nationally 4.1%).

Pupils by main type of need

Source: Department for Education, Special educational needs in England (the 2025–26 school census). SEN support is extra help in school without an EHC plan. National figures are for all state-funded primary schools. Counts are as published, with small numbers not hidden.

In 2025–26 Bassett Green Primary School received £7,834 and spent £7,784 for each of its 412 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £229,000 (£555 per pupil).

Income per pupil

Spending per pupil

Source: Department for Education, Financial Benchmarking and Insights Tool. Each year is the one the financial year ends in (2024 is 2023–24).

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Bassett Green Primary School is part of Aspire Community Trust, which runs 8 schools. The nearest others:

• Swaythling Primary School Southampton
• Cantell School Southampton
• Vermont School Southampton
• Mansbridge Primary School Southampton
• Bevois Town Primary School Southampton
• Mount Pleasant Juniors Southampton
• Mount Pleasant Infants Southampton

What is Bassett Green Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Bassett Green Primary School is Needs attention, from an inspection in March 2026.

When was Bassett Green Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Bassett Green Primary School was last inspected in March 2026.

How many pupils does Bassett Green Primary School have?

Bassett Green Primary School has 412 pupils on roll.

What age range does Bassett Green Primary School cover?

Bassett Green Primary School for pupils aged 4 to 11.

What are Bassett Green Primary School's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 58% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Bassett Green Primary School?

Bassett Green Primary School is at Honeysuckle Road, Bassett, Southampton, Hampshire, SO16 3BZ.