Shakespeare Infant School
Primary · Community school · Ages 5–7 · Eastleigh, 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 🔒
Shakespeare Infant School is a primary school in Eastleigh, Hampshire for ages 5–7 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 25 April 2023. Hampshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2019 to 2026 entry.
Shakespeare 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
- Reception 2026 had 56 first-choice applications for 58 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 2 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- Every applicant was offered a Reception place in 2026, but places ran out in both earlier years with a published outcome: 2019 and 2020.
- 13.5% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 23.1% 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
- Shakespeare Road, Eastleigh, SO50 4FZ
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 5–7
- Council
- Hampshire
- Pupils on roll
- 215 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 13.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 18.9
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 25 April 2023
Strengths
- “This is a well-run school, with happy pupils who love attending.”
- “Leaders have high expectations for all pupils.”
- “The school’s motto of ‘we care’ is evident throughout all aspects of the school’s work.”
To improve
- “However, in some foundation subjects, leaders have identified too much knowledge for pupils to remember.”
- “This leads to pupils not having time to learn this knowledge in sufficient depth.”
- “They do not remember clearly what they have been taught.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 19 June 2023 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 56 first-preference applications, 58 offers in total, 56 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.
- Shakespeare Junior School 0.1 mi No Ofsted grade
- The Crescent Primary School 0.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Norwood Primary & Pre-School 0.6 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Fryern Junior School 0.8 mi School remains Good
- Fryern Infant School 0.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Swithun Wells Catholic Primary School, Chandlers Ford 0.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Scantabout Primary School 0.9 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Cherbourg Primary School 1.0 mi Good Last distance published