Denmead Infant School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–7 · Waterlooville, Hampshire
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.85 miles
Published by Hampshire County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2019–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Denmead Infant School is a primary school in Waterlooville, Hampshire for ages 4–7 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 24 May 2023. Hampshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2019 to 2026 entry.
Denmead 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 | 0.85 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
- For Reception 2026, the last child offered a place lived 0.85 miles away, 20th shortest of 88 Hampshire primary schools with a published last distance (middle figure 1.41 miles).
- That Reception distance was nearer the school in 2026 than in 2025 and about the same as in 2024, and the 2026 figure was the shortest of the 3 years.
- Reception 2026 drew 65 first-choice applications for 60 offers; 57 offers went to first-choice families, and 8 first-choice families (12%) were not offered a place.
- 16.4% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, below the middle figure of 24.4% 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
- Hambledon Road, Denmead, Waterlooville, PO7 6PN
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–7
- Council
- Hampshire
- Pupils on roll
- 201 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 16.4% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 23.4
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 24 May 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils say that ‘every day is a learning adventure’ at Denmead Infant School.”
- “Pupils feel happy and safe and are well looked after.”
- “This is seen around the school through the warm and positive relationships with adults.”
To improve
- “However, pupils have not yet made links in their learning to the subject they are learning about.”
- “As a result, knowledge is not remembered over time and children are unable to draw on information when asked.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 18 July 2023 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 65 first-preference applications, 60 offers in total, 57 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.
- Denmead Junior School 0.1 mi Some aspects not as strong
- Hart Plain Junior School 1.5 mi Not judged
- Hart Plain Infant School 1.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Woodcroft Primary 1.5 mi Good Last distance published
- Newlands Primary Academy 1.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Berewood Primary School 1.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Padnell Infant School 2.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Padnell Junior School 2.2 mi School remains Good