The Crescent Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–11 · Eastleigh, Hampshire
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.87 miles
Published by Hampshire County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2019–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
The Crescent Primary School is a primary school in Eastleigh, Hampshire for ages 4–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 12 July 2023. Hampshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2019 to 2026 entry.
The Crescent Primary 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 | 0.87 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 0.87 miles away, the 21st shortest of 88 Hampshire primary schools with a published last distance (middle figure 1.41 miles).
- The Reception last distance in 2026 was nearer the school than in 2023 and further than in 2020, and it swung sharply between some years.
- Reception 2026 had 91 first-choice applications for 87 offers; 86 offers went to first-choice families, and 5 first-choice families were not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 62% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 4% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
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
- The Crescent Primary School, Toynbee Road, Eastleigh, SO50 9DH
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- Hampshire
- Pupils on roll
- 619 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 31.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 23.4
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 12 July 2023
Strengths
- “Happy faces fill classrooms and corridors.”
- “In the words of the school song that staff and pupils perform together during assemblies, ‘everybody’s proud to call this school our school’.”
- “Pupils achieve well across an exciting and interesting curriculum.”
To improve
- “Leaders are continuing to support teachers to ensure that they are able to do this successfully in all subjects.”
- “However, not all activities are as purposeful as they could be.”
- “Leaders recognise that some areas of the curriculum need to be more clearly defined and planned in Reception Year.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 20 September 2023 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Exam results
| Measure | School | England |
|---|---|---|
| Key stage 2 · reading, writing and maths, expected standard (2024/25) | 62% | 62% |
Department for Education school performance data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 91 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.
- Norwood Primary & Pre-School 0.2 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Shakespeare Infant School 0.5 mi Good Last distance published
- Shakespeare Junior School 0.6 mi No Ofsted grade
- Cherbourg Primary School 0.6 mi Good Last distance published
- St Swithun Wells Catholic Primary School, Chandlers Ford 1.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Fryern Junior School 1.1 mi School remains Good
- Nightingale Primary School 1.1 mi Good Last distance published
- Fryern Infant School 1.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published