Springwood Infant School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–7 · Waterlooville, 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 🔒
Springwood Infant School is a primary school in Waterlooville, Hampshire for ages 4–7 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 3 October 2023. Hampshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2019 to 2026 entry.
Springwood 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 2026 saw 29 first-choice applications for 36 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 7 offers went to families ranking it second or lower.
- Of its pupils, 34.5% are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 25.8% 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
- Springwood Avenue, Waterlooville, PO7 8ED
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–7
- Council
- Hampshire
- Pupils on roll
- 145 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 34.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 20.5
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 3 October 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils are very happy to come to school every day.”
- “They know their teachers will look after them and make the lessons interesting.”
- “Pupils work well in class and play very well together outside.”
To improve
- “However, teachers are not as sharp in their checking of pupils’ learning in wider curriculum subjects.”
- “As a result, gaps develop in some pupils’ learning, which are not fully addressed.”
- “While most of the clubs pupils can participate in are sports related, the school is widening the range of activities.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 13 November 2023 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 29 first-preference applications, 36 offers in total, 29 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.
- Springwood Junior School 0.1 mi School remains Good
- St Peter's Catholic Primary School, Waterlooville 0.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Mill Hill Primary School 0.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Berewood Primary School 0.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Purbrook Infant School 0.8 mi Improved significantly Last distance published
- Purbrook Junior School 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade
- Queen's Inclosure Primary School 1.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Hart Plain Junior School 1.2 mi Not judged