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What are the schools like in Hamble-le-Rice?

For anyone buying or renting in Hamble-le-Rice.

Hamble-le-Rice runs its own schools, which for a village of under five thousand people is not a given. There is a primary in the village, Hamble Primary School. There is a secondary, The Hamble School. Plenty of villages this size borrow both from the nearest town and bus the children out every morning. Hamble does not, and having a full run of schooling inside the parish shapes daily life more than any ranking would.

Beyond the two in the village, the surrounding area is thick with options, which is what you get when a place sits inside a busy stretch of Hampshire rather than out on its own. For primary-age children the nearby choices include Bursledon Church of England Infant School and Bursledon Junior School, Netley Abbey Infant School and Netley Abbey Junior School, Locks Heath Infant and Nursery School and Locks Heath Junior School, Sarisbury Infant School and Sarisbury Church of England Junior School, Park Gate Primary School, and Hook-With-Warsash Church of England Academy. For older children there is Brookfield Community School alongside The Hamble School, with King's Academy Lord Wilson and Fair Ways School also serving the wider area. That is a lot of front doors for one small village to sit near.

The obvious warning is that a school on this list is not a school your child is guaranteed a place at. Admissions run on catchment and distance, and living in Hamble puts you in the running for the closest schools without setting a seat aside for you. The village primary and secondary fill on the usual rules, the popular ones fill first, and the address that looks perfect on a map can still leave you driving to the second or third choice. Check the actual catchment for the specific street before you assume the school at the end of the road is yours, because the road matters more than the postcode.

One honest limit on this page is that it does not carry current inspection grades for these schools, so nothing here ranks them on their latest reports. That is a gap to close with a visit and the most recent inspection findings, not a verdict. A named school with no grade attached is an invitation to go and look, rather than a recommendation or a warning.

So the schools in Hamble-le-Rice come out as solidly average on the picture available here: plenty of them, a full set inside the village itself, and no inspection outcomes on this page to separate the strong from the ordinary. Judge them on their own reports and a walk round, because the count alone tells you there is choice, not which choice is the right one.

Check it for your address. Admission rules and inspection results change from year to year, so before counting on a place, read the latest reports on Ofsted and your council's admissions rules.

Sources: Ofsted · Department for Education · Department for Transport

Data to April 2026 · Figures checked 15 July 2026 (what this means)