Portway Infant School
Primary · Community school · Ages 5–7 · Andover, Hampshire
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
1.36 miles
Published by Hampshire County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2019–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Portway Infant School is a primary school in Andover, Hampshire for ages 5–7 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Outstanding, from the inspection on 14 May 2024. Hampshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2019 to 2026 entry.
Portway 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 | 1.36 mi |
| 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
- Reception 2026: the last child offered a place lived 1.36 miles away, the 41st shortest of 88 Hampshire primary schools with a published last distance (this one included).
- The Reception 2026 last distance was nearer the school than in 2025 and further than in 2019, and it swung sharply between some years.
- For Reception 2026, 128 first-choice applications for 87 offers; 86 offers went to first-choice families and 42 first-choice families were not offered a place.
- 12.2% of pupils are eligible for free school meals; the middle figure across the 8 nearest primary schools in Hampshire is 17.7%.
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
- Ashfield Road, Andover, SP10 3PE
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 5–7
- Council
- Hampshire
- Pupils on roll
- 270 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 12.2% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 26
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Outstanding Inspected 14 May 2024
Strengths
- “‘Portway Infants is a phenomenal school.”
- “It accurately describes what it is like to be a pupil at this school.”
- “Pupils flourish because of the high aspirations set for their learning and personal development.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 18 June 2024 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 128 first-preference applications, 87 offers in total, 86 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.
- Portway Junior School 0.0 mi Not judged
- St John the Baptist Catholic Primary School, Andover 0.5 mi Good Last distance published
- Balksbury Infant School 0.6 mi Good Last distance published
- Balksbury Junior School 0.6 mi Improved significantly
- Anton Junior School 1.3 mi Not judged
- Anton Infant School 1.3 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Andover Church of England Primary School 1.4 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Knights Enham Nursery and Infant School 1.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published