Graded inspection · Jul 2025 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther primary schools in Portsmouth
What did Ofsted find?
Ofsted data to 30 September 2026| Area | Outstanding | Good | Requires improvement | Inadequate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality of education | Good | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Good | |||
| Personal development | Good | |||
| Leadership and management | Good | |||
| Early years provision | Good |
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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 entry99 applications · 39 places offered · 35 named it first
- 2026 2.5; Portsmouth median median 2.2
- 2025 3.1; Portsmouth median median 2.3
- 2024 3.0; Portsmouth median median 1.8
- 2023 2.2; Portsmouth median median 1.8
- 2022 2.2; Portsmouth median median 1.8
- 2021 2.6; Portsmouth median median 1.8
- 2020 3.8; Portsmouth median median 2.2
- 2019 3.4; Portsmouth median median 2.3
- 2018 4.1; Portsmouth median median 2.5; as the previous school
- 2017 3.3; Portsmouth median median 2.4; as the previous school
- 2016 3.7; Portsmouth median median 2.5; as the previous school
- 2015 3.4; Portsmouth median median 2.1; as the previous school
- 2014 3.2; Portsmouth median median 2.3; as the previous school
- This school
- Portsmouth median
Dashed bars: as Meon Infant School (URN 116189), 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 | 39 | 99 | 2.5 | 35 | 0.90 |
| Sep 2025 | 37 | 116 | 3.1 | 34 | 0.92 |
| Sep 2024 | 37 | 112 | 3.0 | 29 | 0.78 |
| Sep 2023 | 54 | 117 | 2.2 | 50 | 0.93 |
| Sep 2022 | 60 | 130 | 2.2 | 65 | 1.08 |
| Sep 2021 | 59 | 153 | 2.6 | 73 | 1.24 |
| Sep 2020 | 61 | 229 | 3.8 | 91 | 1.49 |
| Sep 2019 | 60 | 205 | 3.4 | 79 | 1.32 |
| Sep 2018 * | 60 | 247 | 4.1 | 87 | 1.45 |
| Sep 2017 * | 60 | 200 | 3.3 | 87 | 1.45 |
| Sep 2016 * | 60 | 219 | 3.7 | 93 | 1.55 |
| Sep 2015 * | 60 | 206 | 3.4 | 88 | 1.47 |
| Sep 2014 * | 60 | 190 | 3.2 | 112 | 1.87 |
Schools nearby
The 8 nearest primary schools in a straight line, in any local authority
- Meon Infant SchoolThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20252.5applications per place
- 0.0 km · Portsmouth202565%met the SATs standard
- 0.4 km · PortsmouthGood20243.1applications per place 53%met the SATs standard
- 0.7 km · PortsmouthGood20233.0applications per place 51%met the SATs standard
- 0.7 km · Portsmouth20263.4applications per place
- 1.0 km · PortsmouthGood20222.8applications per place
- 1.1 km · PortsmouthRemains Good202355%met the SATs standard
- 1.2 km · Portsmouth20262.9applications per place
- 1.2 km · PortsmouthRemains Good20212.0applications per place 58%met the SATs standard
- 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
- 146135 · 851/2654
- Capacity
- 180 pupils · 133 on roll
- Free school meals
- 33.8% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 September 2018
- Replaced
- Meon Infant School (URN 116189)
- Address
- Shelford Road, Milton, Southsea, PO4 8NT
- Local authority
- Portsmouth
Data last changed 3 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources