Purbrook Infant School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–7 · Waterlooville, Hampshire
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
1.34 miles
Published by Hampshire County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2019–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Purbrook Infant School is a primary school in Waterlooville, Hampshire for ages 4–7 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Improved significantly, from the inspection on 8 January 2025. Hampshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2019 to 2026 entry.
Purbrook 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 | 1.34 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
- The last child offered a Reception place for 2026 lived 1.34 miles away, the 39th shortest of 88 Hampshire primary schools with a published last distance (middle figure 1.41 miles).
- That Reception last distance swung sharply between years; the 2026 figure was further from the school than in 2025 and further than in 2019.
- Reception 2026 had 87 first-choice applications for 89 offers; 80 offers went to first-choice families, and 7 first-choice families (8%) were not offered a place.
- 12.6% of pupils are eligible for free school meals; the middle figure across the 8 nearest primary schools in Hampshire is 34.9%.
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
- Aldermoor Road East, Purbrook, Waterlooville, PO7 5NQ
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–7
- Council
- Hampshire
- Pupils on roll
- 270 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 12.6% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 22.9
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Improved significantly Inspected 8 January 2025
Strengths
- “At the start of each day, pupils hurry happily into this ambitious and inclusive school.”
- “The warm and nurturing relationships between staff and pupils sit at the heart of the school’s success.”
- “Pupils understand they can seek help from an adult if they have a concern.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 4 February 2025 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 87 first-preference applications, 89 offers in total, 80 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.
- Purbrook Junior School 0.0 mi No Ofsted grade
- Mill Hill Primary School 0.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Peter's Catholic Primary School, Waterlooville 0.6 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Springwood Junior School 0.7 mi School remains Good
- Berewood Primary School 0.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Morelands Primary School 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Springwood Infant School 0.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Newlands Primary Academy 0.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published