Fair Oak Infant School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–7 · Eastleigh, Hampshire
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
2.32 miles
Published by Hampshire County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2019–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Fair Oak Infant School is a primary school in Eastleigh, Hampshire for ages 4–7 (community school). Hampshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2019 to 2026 entry.
Fair Oak 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 | 2.32 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 2.32 miles away, the 30th longest of 88 Hampshire primary schools with a published last distance (middle figure 1.41 miles).
- The Reception last distance in 2026 was further from the school than in 2025 and nearer than in 2020, and it swung sharply between some years.
- Reception 2026 had 118 first-choice applications for 113 offers; 112 offers went to first-choice families, and 6 first-choice families were not offered a place.
- 8.1% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 17.2% 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, Fair Oak, Eastleigh, SO50 7AN
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–7
- Council
- Hampshire
- Pupils on roll
- 359 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 8.1% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 24.6
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
No Ofsted grade Inspected 25 November 2025
Strengths
- “Pupils blossom at Fair Oak Infant School.”
- “They are happy, feel safe and enjoy coming to school.”
- “Warm, respectful relationships between staff and pupils are a notable strength, creating a positive and nurturing atmosphere.”
To improve
- “However, pupils’ retention of knowledge across the wider curriculum is more variable.”
- “At times, new learning does not build securely on prior knowledge.”
- “For some pupils, this limits how well they can apply and connect their learning over time.”
Safeguarding: met
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 13 February 2026 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 118 first-preference applications, 113 offers in total, 112 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.
- Fair Oak Junior School 0.1 mi Standards maintained
- Durley Church of England Controlled Primary School 1.3 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Stoke Park Infant School 1.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Stoke Park Junior School 1.4 mi Standards maintained
- Wellstead Primary School 2.1 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Boorley Park 2.4 mi Good Last distance published
- Saint James' Church of England Primary School 2.4 mi Good Last distance published
- Berrywood Primary School 2.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published