Community school · Secondary
Basingstoke · RG21 5PB · Hampshire
Ages 11–16
Status: Open
0.9 miles away
OpenSecondaryURN 138287
The Costello School
Academy converter · Basingstoke · RG21 4AL
Phase
Secondary
Age range
Ages 11–16
Pupils
1,160
Local authority
Hampshire
Age range
Ages 11–16
05111619
Provision snapshot
Based on official GIAS characteristics
1 / 6
- NurseryNo Nursery Classes
- Sixth formDoes not have a sixth form
- BoardingNo boarders
- Special school
- Independent
- Academy
Local context
How this school sits among open establishments in its area, using official GIAS records. These are counts, not rankings.
Mixed academy converter (secondary), Ages 11–16, in Basingstoke, Hampshire, 1,160 pupils on roll. Notable characteristics: academy, non-selective admissions. Free school meals: 18.1%.
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Overview
- School type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- Age range
- 11–16
- Gender
- Mixed
- Status
- Open
- URN
- 138287
Location
- Address
- Crossborough Hill, London Road
- Postcode
- RG21 4AL
- Town
- Basingstoke
- County
- Hampshire
- Local authority
- Hampshire
- District
- Basingstoke and Deane
- Constituency
- Basingstoke
- Urban/rural
- Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
Size & intake
Pupil numbers and free school meals come from the GIAS school census fields. Capacity fill is calculated when both pupils and capacity are published. Census date: 15 Jan 2026.
- Pupils on roll
- 1,160
- Boys / girls
- 612 / 548
- School capacity
- 1,120
- Capacity fill
- 1,160 / 1,120 (104%)
- Free school meals
- 18.1%
- FSM pupils
- 210
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Gender
- Mixed
School characteristics
- Nursery provision
- No Nursery Classes
- Sixth form
- Does not have a sixth form
- Boarding
- No boarders
- Special classes
- No Special Classes
- Governance
- Academy trust: BOHUNT EDUCATION TRUST
- Academy trust
- BOHUNT EDUCATION TRUST
- Sponsor
- Bohunt Education Trust
Contact
- Headteacher
- Mr Andy Conway
- Telephone
- 01256321263
Official links
Ofsted
Latest inspection outcomes from Ofsted monthly management information. Report-card grades use the current framework where published; older OEIF grades are shown when that is the latest graded inspection.
Headline
Expected standard
Inspection date
2026-02-10
- Achievement
- Expected standard
- Curriculum and teaching
- Expected standard
- Inclusion
- Expected standard
- Attendance and behaviour
- Expected standard
- Personal development and wellbeing
- Expected standard
- Leadership and governance
- Expected standard
- Safeguarding standards
- Met
Performance
Official school-level results from DfE school and college performance tables. Figures are not rankings — suppressed or unavailable values are omitted.
Key stage 4 (2023/24)
- Attainment 8
- 46.3
- Progress 8
- -0.0
- English & maths grade 5+
- 45%
- English & maths grade 4+
- 66%
- EBacc entry
- 77%
- EBacc APS
- 4.3