North Baddesley Infant School
Primary · Community school · Ages 2–7 · Southampton, 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 🔒
North Baddesley Infant School is a primary school in Southampton, Hampshire for ages 2–7 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 8 March 2023. Hampshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2019 to 2026 entry.
North Baddesley 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
- Every applicant for Reception 2026 was offered a place, whereas places ran out in 2024, the earlier year with a published outcome.
- Reception 2026 drew 74 first-choice applications for 79 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 5 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- Of the 117 applications for Reception 2026, 16 (14%) came from families living outside Hampshire, and 11 offers went to them.
- There are 26.5 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 21.8 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
- Botley Road, North Baddesley, Southampton, SO52 9EE
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–7
- Council
- Hampshire
- Pupils on roll
- 321 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 14.3% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 26.5
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 8 March 2023
Strengths
- “The school’s vision of ‘Growing Together - Learning for Life’ is well embedded.”
- “This ambitious motto captures the school’s nurturing ethos for both pupils’ academic and pastoral development.”
- “The values of ‘respect, resilience and independence’ entwine to create a genuine community feel in the school.”
To improve
- “In the strongest subjects, the curriculum is split into clear areas of learning and spans across all year groups, although this is not the case for all subjects yet.”
- “Some subject curriculums are not sequenced with clarity.”
- “This means pupils do not always learn as much knowledge as they could.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 4 May 2023 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 74 first-preference applications, 79 offers in total, 74 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.
- North Baddesley Junior School 0.1 mi School remains Good
- St Francis Church of England Primary School 1.5 mi Good Last distance published
- Knightwood Primary School 1.7 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Halterworth Primary School 1.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Rownhams St John's Church of England Primary School 2.2 mi Good Last distance published
- Cupernham Infant School 2.4 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Cupernham Junior School 2.4 mi School remains Good
- Chandler's Ford Infant School 2.5 mi Not judged Last distance published