Best state secondary schools in Hampshire and can we afford to live in catchment?

A budget of £700K? You can easily afford to live in Hampshire (depends what you want of course, but you can afford a decent house).

Fleet has two good secondaries, you could also look at Hook/Odiham for Robert May's or Romsey for Mountbatten school. Fleet is "commuter belt" but it is affordable and anyway "commuter belt" may not really be "commuter belt" anymore as people work more from home and travel into London less often.

As for sixth form colleges you are spoilt for choice really - they are all pretty good. The ones I know about are QMC in Basingstoke, Alton, Peter Symonds and Farnborough.

Petersfield is lovely and would be another good choice.

I'm sorry for your experience lloe6 but I do have to say my Dd has just left Petersfield and the school leadership team and school staff are very very different from when she started.

@NellyJames Petersfield and Bohunt are same academy trust ...Bohunt has the sixth form but they share teachers just depends what school.suits at time. It.used to be that you could be miles further south i.e nearer the coast like I am and get a place but I have heard that is nit so much the case anymore. If you want a sixthform as opposed to a college you will be limiting yourself in Hants.

I just searched on right move and there were 7 5 bedroom houses for sale in Winchester for £700 or
Less.

All the secondary schools in Winchester are excellent so I wouldn’t rule it out. If you look at areas a little further out like Weeke you might be able to find something.

then places like right move give you catchment areas.

Or, rather more reliably (not going to tell you, Oh yes, of course it's in catchment for the school you want when it isn't, because it's not on the business of selling houses), the Local Authority.

Apologise for any bad spelling- I need to go to bed!

Petersfield is great for commuting to London, it takes just over an hour via train.
However I attended The Petersfield School less than 10 years ago and had an extremely bad experience with bullying not being dealt with, teachers being biased and (TRIGGER WARNING) I was sexually assaulted by another student, my parents were told that the teachers new this would happen , the case didn't go as far as prosecution due to lack of evidence so the student and I both went back to school. I was very anxious and tried to stay in with a member of staff who allowed it for a week or two before telling me it's time for me to get over it and go back outside- where that student and his friends immediately chased me and pushed me into a bush. I was terrorised by the group of students for a very long time and the teachers turned a blind eye. I was later put into the same 'house' as that student and made to applaud him for his work in a club (I was picked out as not clapping and told to clap or be sent outside). My parents eventually pulled me out.
Sorry for so much random awful information in your thread, but many of those teachers are still there and I thought it best to share my experience of the school being very unsupportive incase it's one you are considering.

Bohunt has a 6th form and about a 45 min drive to the coast. However the roads to the beaches in the area do get extremely busy in good weather (Hayling Island, Witterings etc). Your best bet is to go down very early or in the evenings, we live a similar distance away and often go down to Hayling in the evenings.

On the other hand if you live in Havant you can cycle down there.

Bay House in Gosport has a good reputation and very close to the coast but Gosport is a bit of a traffic nightmare.

Huron Drive, Liphook
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Sorry, didn't see the bit about being by the sea. My friend in liphook goes to the coast a lot. Just off the a3 so a quick journey.

Fleet (I think Hampshire?). Excellent commute and good schools. Liphook - Liphook infants & junior, Bohunt Secondary. All very good. Decent commute to London, but faster train from haslemere. Liphook houses very reasonably priced. Lots of big family homes. My friend moved down a few years ago and is very happy. Petersfield - slightly more expensive than liphook despite further out. Think a faster train than liphook.

Well there's been some good schools mentioned here.

If you want coastal look at Fareham, Gosport lee on Solent way.

Brookfield, Crofton and bay house are good schools.

Bay house has 6 th and lots of Crofton students tend to move on there.

They also have an outstanding college in Fareham that has a site in lee on solent.

You can compare them to the other schools in area via the progress 8 website and then places like right move give you catchment areas.

Havant.
Easy commute into Waterloo. Cheap housing and lovely access to the sea. Schools are good /indies very good.

You’d get somewhere decent for your budget along the south coast in West Sussex, but trains into London can take much longer so not so commutable.

Hampshire is like anywhere and has good and bad schools.

Where I live very close to coast I have 2 awful academies nearby, some ok secondaries and some really recommended. Often all within 2 miles of each other!

It's probably worth finding a house/area and then asking for advice on schools (and remember people will also have opposing experiences of the same one!)

Have you thought about Ringwood School? It has a sixth form. It's close to the border with Dorset and not far from the coast.

Ringwood doesn't have a train station though.

N.Hants is possibly too far from the sea for the OP?

Just over the border of North Hampshire into West Berks there are a few good secondary schools in Newbury. St Bartholomew's is one.

I have a good friend in Petersfield. I believe the secondary there is outstanding. Also a friend in Hook, she’s very happy with the secondary school there. Both commutable to London. Bit further from coast though.

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Any of these houses will be in good catchments. Depends on whether you'd rather be more rural, or town. Waltham Chase, Swanmore, etc., will be in catchment for Swanmore Primary, St Johns, etc., then Swanmore Secondary. Other schools will be Wyvern/Wildern for the Botley/Fair Oak houses.

I would say that most of the recognised 'best' in Hants don't have 6th forms, so you might need to think whether that really is a requirement or not.

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