School profile
The Harbour School
Tipner Lane, Tipner, Portsmouth, Hampshire, PO2 8RA
Overview
The Harbour School is a special / send school (academy special converter) in Portsmouth, South East, for pupils aged 5–19. This summary is generated only from official structured fields.
School details
- Official establishment type
- Academy special converter
- Establishment group
- Academies
- Age range
- Ages 5–19
- Gender of entry
- Mixed
- Boarding
- No boarders
- School capacity
- 200
- Pupils on roll
- 169
- URN
- 147720
Admissions
- Local authority
- Portsmouth
- Academy trust or group
- SOUTHERN EDUCATION TRUST
Contact the school or your local authority for catchment and application deadlines.
Official performance data
School performance
Official Department for Education results for this school. Results are shown for the academic year they relate to.
2024/25 results
This is a special school. National performance measures are designed for mainstream schools and often do not reflect the needs of pupils here, so only the figures DfE publishes for this school are listed below.
| Measure | School |
|---|---|
| Grammar, punctuation & spelling — average scaled score | 102 |
| Grammar, punctuation & spelling — meeting the expected standard | 17% |
| Grammar, punctuation & spelling — achieving a high score | 0% |
| Maths — average scaled score | 91 |
| Maths — meeting the expected standard | 0% |
| Maths — achieving a high score | 0% |
| Reading — average scaled score | 114 |
| Reading — meeting the expected standard | 17% |
| Reading — achieving a high score | 17% |
| Reading, writing & maths — meeting the expected standard | 0% |
| Reading, writing & maths — achieving a higher standard | 0% |
| Science — meeting the expected standard | 0% |
| Writing — meeting the expected standard | 0% |
| Writing — working at greater depth | 0% |
Source: Department for Education · School performance data.
Official inspection data
Ofsted inspections
Inspection information published by Ofsted, shown in Ofsted's own words.
Ofsted report card
Inspected 18 March 2026 · Published 10 May 2026
Renewed education inspection framework
- Safeguarding standards
- Met
- Inclusion
- Urgent improvement
- Curriculum and teaching
- Needs attention
- Achievement
- Urgent improvement
- Attendance and behaviour
- Urgent improvement
- Personal development and wellbeing
- Urgent improvement
- Early years (where applicable)
- Not applicable
- Post-16 provision (where applicable)
- Not applicable
- Leadership and governance
- Urgent improvement
Ofsted recorded this school in a category of concern: Special measures. The official report explains what this means and what happens next.
Previous inspection information
Ofsted inspection
Inspected 3 December 2024 · Published 28 January 2025
No overall effectiveness grade was given for inspections in this period.
Safeguarding was effective: Yes
Ofsted changed how it inspects and reports on schools in November 2025. Judgements from the previous and current frameworks use different systems and should not be directly compared.
School Nest shows the inspection information Ofsted currently publishes for this school. It is not a complete record of every inspection the school has ever had.
Source: Ofsted · Inspections and outcomes. Official Ofsted page for this school
SEND and additional needs
Types of special educational need recorded in the official dataset. These describe recorded provision, not a judgement of quality.
- SEMH - Social, Emotional and Mental Health
Location
- Address
- Tipner Lane, Tipner, Portsmouth, Hampshire, PO2 8RA
- Local authority
- Portsmouth
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