Graded inspection · Apr 2025 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther primary schools in Southampton
What did Ofsted find?
Ofsted data to 30 September 2026| Area | Outstanding | Good | Requires improvement | Inadequate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality of education | Outstanding | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Outstanding | |||
| Personal development | Outstanding | |||
| Leadership and management | Outstanding | |||
| Early years provision | Outstanding |
Full reports on the Ofsted website · How to read Ofsted grades
About these grades
Ofsted's report cards (from November 2025) grade each area on five steps and give no overall grade. Earlier grades come from a different framework; Ofsted says the two cannot be compared, so they are never converted here. Ofsted: "We normally inspect schools every 4 years or at any time if we have concerns." Methodology.
How hard is it to get a place?
DfE · Sept 2026 entry170 applications · 85 places offered · 78 named it first
- 2026 2.0; Southampton median median 1.9
- 2025 2.3; Southampton median median 1.9
- 2024 2.3; Southampton median median 2.1
- 2023 2.7; Southampton median median 2.1
- 2022 3.0; Southampton median median 2.1
- 2021 2.7; Southampton median median 2.0
- 2020 3.1; Southampton median median 2.2
- 2019 3.1; Southampton median median 1.9
- 2018 3.1; Southampton median median 2.1
- 2017 2.8; Southampton median median 2.0; as the previous school
- 2016 3.7; Southampton median median 2.1; as the previous school
- 2015 3.9; Southampton median median 2.3; as the previous school
- 2014 3.2; Southampton median median 2.3; as the previous school
- This school
- Southampton median
Dashed bars: as Sholing Infant School (URN 116108), the previous school.
Reception applications for September 2027 close 15 January 2027, through your council
How this is measured
Applications per place: every application naming the school at any preference, divided by places offered on National Offer Day. It is not your chance of a place. Methodology.
| Entry | Places | Applications | Per place | First preferences | First-pref. ratio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2026 | 85 | 170 | 2.0 | 78 | 0.92 |
| Sep 2025 | 80 | 182 | 2.3 | 79 | 0.99 |
| Sep 2024 | 83 | 192 | 2.3 | 80 | 0.96 |
| Sep 2023 | 90 | 239 | 2.7 | 107 | 1.19 |
| Sep 2022 | 89 | 265 | 3.0 | 114 | 1.28 |
| Sep 2021 | 88 | 239 | 2.7 | 93 | 1.06 |
| Sep 2020 | 87 | 267 | 3.1 | 89 | 1.02 |
| Sep 2019 | 90 | 283 | 3.1 | 118 | 1.31 |
| Sep 2018 | 90 | 282 | 3.1 | 98 | 1.09 |
| Sep 2017 * | 90 | 248 | 2.8 | 87 | 0.97 |
| Sep 2016 * | 90 | 331 | 3.7 | 117 | 1.30 |
| Sep 2015 * | 90 | 348 | 3.9 | 119 | 1.32 |
| Sep 2014 * | 91 | 291 | 3.2 | 88 | 0.97 |
Schools nearby
The 8 nearest primary schools in a straight line, in any local authority
- Sholing Infant SchoolThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20252.0applications per place
- 0.2 km · SouthamptonGood202253%met the SATs standard
- 0.8 km · SouthamptonGraded · no overall grade20251.9applications per place 47%met the SATs standard
- 0.9 km · SouthamptonGraded · no overall grade20252.3applications per place 47%met the SATs standard
- 0.9 km · SouthamptonGraded · no overall grade202566%met the SATs standard
- 1.0 km · SouthamptonRemains Good20242.3applications per place
- 1.2 km · Southampton20261.8applications per place 21%met the SATs standard
- 1.3 km · SouthamptonImproved significantly20252.2applications per place 82%met the SATs standard
- 1.3 km · Southampton20262.1applications per place
- Exceptional
- Strong standard
- Expected standard
- Needs attention
- Urgent improvement
- Does not apply
Eight dots, one per area: inclusion, curriculum, achievement, attendance, personal development, early years, post-16, leadership. Colours follow Ofsted's report card scale; Schoolfile is independent of Ofsted.
School details
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- URN · DfE number
- 145457 · 852/2430
- Capacity
- 270 pupils · 264 on roll
- Free school meals
- 19.3% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 February 2018
- Replaced
- Sholing Infant School (URN 116108)
- Address
- Heath Road, Sholing, Southampton, SO19 2QF
- Local authority
- Southampton
Data last changed 3 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources