Ashley Infant School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–7 · New Milton, Hampshire
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From Hampshire County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2019–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Ashley Infant School is a primary school in New Milton, Hampshire for ages 4–7 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Standards maintained, from the inspection on 19 March 2025. Hampshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2019 to 2026 entry.
Ashley 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 |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- In Reception 2026 every applicant was offered a place, as was the case at 204 of the 315 other Hampshire primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome.
- Places ran out, with a last distance published, in both earlier Reception years with a published outcome, 2020 and 2022, and that distance swung sharply between some years.
- Reception 2026 had 26 first-choice applications for 28 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 2 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- There are 13.4 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 21.2 across the 8 nearest primary schools in Hampshire.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Hampshire schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Lower Ashley Road, Ashley, New Milton, BH25 5AA
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–7
- Council
- Hampshire
- Pupils on roll
- 149 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 22.8% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 13.4
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Standards maintained Inspected 19 March 2025
Strengths
- “As one parent summed up perfectly, Ashley Infants ‘nurtures and brings out the best in children’.”
- “The simple school ‘promises’ set a high bar and successfully cultivate a happy, inclusive working atmosphere.”
- “There is a notable abundance of smiles from pupils and staff throughout the day.”
To improve
- “There is, though, still work to do to ensure that checking whether pupils understand what it means, for example, to be a historian or a scientist, is thorough enough.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 7 May 2025 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 26 first-preference applications, 28 offers in total, 26 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 Hampshire.
- Ashley Junior School 0.3 mi School remains Good
- Hordle CofE (VA) Primary School 1.0 mi School remains Outstanding Last distance published
- New Milton Junior School 1.3 mi No Ofsted grade
- New Milton Infant School 1.3 mi Good Last distance published
- Tiptoe Primary School 1.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Luke's Church of England Primary School 2.4 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Milford-on-Sea Church of England Primary School 2.6 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Our Lady and St Joseph Catholic Primary School - the Learning Federation Partnership of Schools 2.8 mi Outstanding Last distance published