Fairfield Infant School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–7 · Havant, 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 🔒
Fairfield Infant School is a primary school in Havant, Hampshire for ages 4–7 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 2 November 2023. Hampshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2019 to 2026 entry.
Fairfield 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 was offered a Reception place in 2026, as at 204 of the 315 other Hampshire primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome.
- For Reception 2026 there were 67 first-choice applications for 72 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place and 5 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- 23.2% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, below the middle figure of 34.7% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Hampshire.
- Ofsted's latest outcome, on 2 November 2023, was that the school remains Good; 6 of the 8 nearest primary schools in Hampshire are rated Good.
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
- Fairfield Road, Havant, PO9 1AY
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–7
- Council
- Hampshire
- Pupils on roll
- 224 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 23.2% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 18.4
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 2 November 2023
Strengths
- “As one parent commented: ‘The school gives off such a lovely vibe and the encouragement from staff is faultless.”
- “This is evident from the moment pupils arrive.”
- “Staff greet them at the classroom door with a friendly smile.”
To improve
- “However, the journey from the early years curriculum into Year 1 is not clearly defined in a few areas.”
- “A couple of subjects in key stage 1 are not as well thought out as others.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 12 December 2023 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 67 first-preference applications, 72 offers in total, 67 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.
- Bosmere Junior School 0.4 mi School remains Good
- Trosnant Infant School 0.6 mi Good Last distance published
- Trosnant Junior School 0.6 mi School remains Good
- St Alban's Church of England Aided Primary School 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Bidbury Infant School 0.9 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Bidbury Junior School 0.9 mi Standards maintained
- St Thomas More's Catholic Primary School, Havant 0.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Barncroft Primary School 1.1 mi Standards maintained Last distance published