Benhall Infant School

Primary · Community school · Ages 4–7 · Cheltenham, Gloucestershire

Last distance offered · Reception 2026

Every applicant was offered a place

From Gloucestershire County Council · offers on 16 April 2026

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Benhall Infant School is a primary school in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire for ages 4–7 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 7 March 2023. Gloucestershire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2012 to 2026 entry.

Benhall Infant School catchment area: last distance offered

Parents often call this the catchment area: it's how far from the school the last child offered a place lived. It changes every year.

Entry	Last distance offered
Reception 2026	Every applicant was offered a place
Reception 2025	🔒 With a pass
Reception 2024	🔒 With a pass
Reception 2023	🔒 With a pass
Reception 2022	🔒 With a pass
Reception 2021	🔒 With a pass
Reception 2020	🔒 With a pass
Reception 2019	🔒 With a pass

And 7 earlier figures.

What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment

What the figures show

Every applicant was offered a Reception place in 2026, whereas a last distance was published in all 14 earlier Reception years with a published outcome.
Reception 2026 had 44 first-choice applications for 50 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 6 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
8.7% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, with a middle figure of 18% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Gloucestershire.
The school has 28.1 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 20.9 across the 8 nearest primary schools in Gloucestershire.

Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Gloucestershire schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.

Key facts

Address: Robert Burns Avenue, Benhall, Cheltenham, GL51 6PS
Type: Community school
Phase: Primary
Ages: 4–7
Council: Gloucestershire
Pupils on roll: 231 January 2026 school census
Free school meals: 8.7% of pupils eligible
Pupils per teacher: 28.1

Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026

Ofsted

Good Inspected 7 March 2023

Strengths

“Benhall Infant School is a special place where pupils succeed at being ‘the best they can be’.”
“Pupils are keen to learn from feedback, embrace challenge and persevere if they find something difficult.”
“It is the thread that runs through everything the school does.”

To improve

“Leaders have rightly identified that a minority of pupils in Year 2 do not read as fluently as they should.”
“Leaders recognise that they are still defining the important knowledge pupils need to learn in a few subjects.”
“As a result, pupils, including children in the early years, do not yet build a sufficient depth of understanding in all subjects.”

Safeguarding: Effective

Quoted from the Ofsted report published 3 May 2023 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Applications and offers

2026 Reception entry: 44 first-preference applications, 50 offers in total, 44 offers to first-preference applicants.

Department for Education, school-level applications and offers, figures on national offer day. Earlier years are in the pass.

Nearby primary schools

Straight-line distance, in Gloucestershire.

St Mark's Church of England Junior School 0.1 mi School remains Good
Lakeside Primary School 0.2 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
Greatfield Park Primary School 0.8 mi Not judged Last distance published
St Thomas More Catholic Primary School 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
Warden Hill Primary School 1.1 mi Good Last distance published
St James' Church of England Primary School 1.1 mi Good Last distance published
Rowanfield Junior School 1.1 mi Standards maintained
Rowanfield Infant School 1.2 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published