Newtown Soberton Infant School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–7 · Fareham, 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 🔒
Newtown Soberton Infant School is a primary school in Fareham, Hampshire for ages 4–7 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Not judged, from the inspection on 15 July 2025. Hampshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2019 to 2026 entry.
Newtown Soberton 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.
- Reception places ran out, with a last distance published, in both 2022 and 2024, and that distance swung sharply between those years.
- Reception 2026 had 16 first-choice applications for 19 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place and 3 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- The school has 14 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 20.8 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
- Church Road, Newtown, Fareham, PO17 6LJ
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–7
- Council
- Hampshire
- Pupils on roll
- 73 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 11% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 14
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Not judged Inspected 15 July 2025
Strengths
- “Pupils know that right from the moment that they join the school, staff know them very well and care about them deeply.”
- “Standards of behaviour are very high.”
- “Pupils work harmoniously together because they follow school rules of being ready, respectful and safe.”
To improve
- “However, pupils’ handwriting skills are not as strong.”
- “This is because pupils are not consistently being taught the necessary handwriting skills to form and join letters accurately and consistently.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 19 September 2025 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 16 first-preference applications, 19 offers in total, 16 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.
- Wickham Church of England Primary School 2.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Hambledon Primary School 2.7 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Denmead Junior School 3.1 mi Some aspects not as strong
- Denmead Infant School 3.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Swanmore Church of England Aided Primary School 3.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St John the Baptist Church of England Primary School 3.2 mi Good
- Droxford Junior School 3.5 mi No Ofsted grade
- Northern Infant School 4.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published