Bishops Waltham Infant School
Primary · Community school · Ages 5–7 · Southampton, Hampshire
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
1.3 miles
Published by Hampshire County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2019–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Bishops Waltham Infant School is a primary school in Southampton, Hampshire for ages 5–7 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Outstanding, from the inspection on 28 November 2023. Hampshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2019 to 2026 entry.
Bishops Waltham 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 | 1.3 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
- Ofsted rated it Outstanding on 28 November 2023; of the 8 nearest primary schools in Hampshire, 7 are Good and 1 has no current grade.
- The last child offered a Reception 2026 place lived 1.3 miles away, the 37th shortest of 88 Hampshire primary schools with a published last distance (middle 1.41 miles).
- That 2026 distance was further from the school than in 2025 and in 2022; the biggest swing between years was from 2022 to 2023.
- Reception 2026 drew 59 first-choice applications for 58 offers; all 58 went to first-choice families, and 1 first-choice family (2%) was not offered a place.
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
- Oak Road, Bishops Waltham, Southampton, SO32 1EP
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 5–7
- Council
- Hampshire
- Pupils on roll
- 199 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 14.1% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 21.6
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Outstanding Inspected 28 November 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils are joyful and successful in this innovative infant school.”
- “Expectations from the start of early years are high, with no ceiling put on aspirations for all.”
- “Pupils rise to meet these expectations, achieving exceptionally well across the curriculum.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 19 January 2024 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 59 first-preference applications, 58 offers in total, 58 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.
- Bishop's Waltham Junior School 0.0 mi School remains Good
- Swanmore Church of England Aided Primary School 1.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St John the Baptist Church of England Primary School 1.9 mi Good
- Upham Church of England Aided Primary School 2.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Droxford Junior School 2.8 mi No Ofsted grade
- Curdridge Primary School 3.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Durley Church of England Controlled Primary School 3.0 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Boorley Park 3.5 mi Good Last distance published