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Tanners Brook Primary School

Primary Ages 4-11 390 pupils Southampton
Ofsted: Good
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Tanners Brook Primary School is an academy sponsor led in Southampton for pupils aged 4 to 11. It has 390 pupils on roll. The latest Ofsted rating for Tanners Brook Primary School is Good, from an inspection in July 2025. In 2025, 74% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Ofsted inspection: July 2025. KS2 results: 2025.

Type Primary / Academy sponsor led
Age Range 4-11
Religion Does not apply
Address Elmes Drive
Millbrook
Southampton
Hampshire
SO15 4PF
Phone 02380771659
Reference Number 142076

General Makeup

Number of pupils 390
Boy/Girl ratio Boys: 50.26%
Girls: 49.74%
Percentage of students eligible for free school meals 36.4%
Percentage of students where English is not their first language 19.2%

Class Sizes

Average size of one teacher classes 28.3
Average size of Key Stage 1 classes taught by one teacher 24.8
Average size of Key Stage 2 classes taught by one teacher 30.3

Year Groups

Year Boys Girls Total
1 31 26 57
2 25 20 45
3 20 34 54
4 33 28 61
5 25 34 59
6 38 27 65

Ethnicities

Ethnicity Percentage
White, British 63.6%
White, Other 8.7%
Indian 6.2%
Asian, Other 4.1%
White & Asian 3.1%
Mixed, Other 2.1%
Pakistani 2.1%
African 1.8%
White & Black (Caribbean) 1.5%
White & Black (African) 1%
Chinese 0.3%
Unclassified 0.3%

Overall Ofsted Rating Good
 >  Quality of education Good
  >  Behaviour & Attitude Outstanding
  >  Personal Development Good
  >  Leadership & Management Good
  >  Early Years Provision Good
Last Report Date 24 Jun 2025
Date Report
24 Jun 2025 School inspection
20 Feb 2024 School inspection
11 Sep 2018 Full inspection:

How many students meet the standards

Reading, Writing & Maths School Score Percentile (local) Percentile (nationwide)
Pupils meeting the expected standard 74%
Pupils meeting a higher standard 12%

Average Scaled Score

Results are converted into scaled scores to allow accurate comparisons of performance over time even if the difficulty of the test varies over time. Scaled scores range from 80 to 120.

Subject School Percentile (local) Percentile (nationwide)
Reading 106
Maths 105

Progress Scores

A progress score is a way to measure how well a student progressed in comparison to other students of a similar starting ability. A score of zero means would mean that a student made the same progress as others that had a similar starting a ability. A positive score would mean that the student made more progress than other students of similar starting ability. The scores below are for the whole school so is the average progress score across all students.

Metric School Score Percentile (local) Percentile (nationwide)
Reading -2
Writing 1.1
Maths 0.4

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Average Scaled Score

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Reception admissions, 2026 entry

Number of Applications Number of Offers
First Preference
Second Preference 16 2
Third Preference 10 0
From another Local Authority 0 0

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Places and pupil numbers

In 2024–25 Tanners Brook Primary School had 398 pupils for 648 places. 250 places (38.6%) were unfilled.

Pupils and places

Reception intake in the “Southampton West Primary” planning area

Southampton counted 749 Reception pupils in this area in 2024–25 and forecasts 675 in 2029–30, down 10%.

201620172018201920212022202320242025
Places 720720750750750750648648648
Pupils 561524494468433416417416398
Unfilled 22.1%27.2%34.1%37.6%42.3%44.5%35.6%35.8%38.6%

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 Tanners Brook Primary School attended 95.0% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 15.8% of pupils were persistently absent, missing at least one session in ten (nationally 13.0%).

Sessions missed

Pupils persistently absent

201620172018201920212022202320242025
Authorised absence 2.5%2.6%2.4%2.8%3.1%5.0%4.1%3.4%3.4%
Unauthorised absence 1.3%1.2%1.2%1.3%1.4%1.9%2.2%1.9%1.5%
Severely absent pupils 0.4%0.6%1.5%0.9%1.3%1.3%1.8%0.5%1.4%

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, 0.3% of pupils at Tanners Brook Primary School were suspended at least once (nationally 1.1%). No pupils were permanently excluded.

Pupils suspended at least once

2016201720182019202020212022202320242025
Suspensions per 100 pupils 3.34.05.04.10.40.50.00.00.00.3
Permanent exclusions 0000000000

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 Tanners Brook Primary School had 19.6 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 9.3% were no longer at the school a year later (nationally 15.7%).

Pupils per teacher

Teachers who left the school within a year

20162017201820192020202120222023202420252026
Pupils per adult 9.210.09.410.111.112.313.212.412.211.811.1
Teachers who left state teaching 16.7%10.3%0.0%8.7%9.4%12.3%0.0%9.8%4.9%4.1%–
Teachers who took any sick leave 77.1%60.5%64.7%54.5%–32.0%76.0%69.6%73.9%68.2%–
Sick days per teacher 4.03.64.31.7–9.27.27.06.12.9–

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, 11.0% of pupils at Tanners Brook Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 4.1% had an education, health and care (EHC) plan (nationally 4.1%).

Pupils by main type of need

SEN support EHC plan
Speech, language and communication needs 17 3
Autistic spectrum disorder 8 9
Moderate learning difficulty 7 0
Social, emotional and mental health 5 0
Specific learning difficulty 2 1
Hearing impairment 2 0
Vision impairment 1 1
Down's syndrome 0 1
No specialist assessment of need 1 0
Severe learning difficulty 0 1

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 2024–25 Tanners Brook Primary School received £6,935 and spent £6,714 for each of its 394 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £385,000 (£977 per pupil).

Across all 8 schools of Hisp Multi Academy Trust Ltd, income was £8,322 and spending £8,344 per pupil.

Income per pupil

Spending per pupil

201920212022202320242025
Revenue reserve £156,000£262,000£367,000£322,000£269,000£385,000
per pupil £337£596£887£790£651£977
In-year balance -£152,000£64,000£125,000£38,000£36,000£87,000
per pupil -£328£146£302£94£88£221

Source: Department for Education, Financial Benchmarking and Insights Tool. Each year is the one the financial year ends in (2024 is 2023–24). Academy figures include a share of the trust's central services, shared out by pupil numbers, and are rounded to the nearest £1,000. Premises costs were defined differently from 2024, so compare them across that gap with care.

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Newlands Primary School
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1.05 miles
Freemantle Church of England Community Academy
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1.1 miles
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1.24 miles
Shirley Infant School
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1.24 miles
Shirley Junior School
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1.55 miles
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Fairisle Junior School
Fairisle Road, Lordshill, Southampton, Hampshire, SO16 8BY
1.56 miles
Hollybrook Junior School
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1.71 miles
Hollybrook Infant School
Hollybrook Infant School, Seagarth Close, Southampton, Hampshire, SO16 6RN
1.73 miles
Banister Primary School
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1.76 miles
Marchwood Junior School
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1.85 miles
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Sinclair Road, Lordshill, Southampton, Hampshire, SO16 8GF
1.93 miles
Name Distance
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0.47 miles
Redbridge Community School
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1.14 miles
St Mark's Church of England School
Stafford Road, Shirley, Southampton, Hampshire, SO15 5TE
1.16 miles
Upper Shirley High School
Bellemoor Road, Upper Shirley, Southampton, Hampshire, SO15 7QU
1.38 miles
King Edward VI School
Wilton Road, Southampton, SO15 5UQ
1.47 miles
Richard Taunton Sixth Form College
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1.53 miles
GLADE School
49 Junction Road, Totton, Hampshire, SO40 3BU
1.63 miles
The Polygon School
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1.69 miles
Rosewood Free School
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1.73 miles
The Cedar School
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1.73 miles
St Anne's Catholic School
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1.92 miles
Testwood School
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New Avenue School
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1.97 miles
Forest Park School
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Cantell School
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Dibden Park School
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Tanners Brook Primary School is part of Hisp Multi Academy Trust Ltd, which runs 8 schools. The nearest others:

What is Tanners Brook Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Tanners Brook Primary School is Good, from an inspection in July 2025.

When was Tanners Brook Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Tanners Brook Primary School was last inspected in July 2025.

How many pupils does Tanners Brook Primary School have?

Tanners Brook Primary School has 390 pupils on roll.

What age range does Tanners Brook Primary School cover?

Tanners Brook Primary School for pupils aged 4 to 11.

What are Tanners Brook Primary School's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 74% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Tanners Brook Primary School?

Tanners Brook Primary School is at Elmes Drive, Millbrook, Southampton, Hampshire, SO15 4PF.

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