Lydlynch Infant School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–7 · Southampton, 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 🔒
Lydlynch Infant School is a primary school in Southampton, Hampshire for ages 4–7 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Standards maintained, from the inspection on 5 November 2024. Hampshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2019 to 2026 entry.
Lydlynch 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
- 2026 Reception entry drew 42 first-choice applications for 48 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 6 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- Every Reception applicant was offered a place in 2026, as at 204 of the 315 other Hampshire primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome.
- At its latest Ofsted inspection, on 5 November 2024, standards were maintained; the previous graded outcome was Good (21 May 2019).
- Free school meal eligibility stands at 31.3% of pupils, against a middle figure of 21.6% 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
- Lydlynch Road,, Totton, Southampton, SO40 3DW
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–7
- Council
- Hampshire
- Pupils on roll
- 112 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 31.3% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 21.5
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Standards maintained Inspected 5 November 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils are very happy at this inclusive and friendly school.”
- “The school has high expectations of all pupils’ achievement from the Reception Year onwards.”
- “The school fosters a love of learning from when children begin school in Reception and pupils engage fully with their learning activities.”
To improve
- “In some subjects, there are inconsistencies in how well the curriculum is implemented.”
- “This is because some activity choices or learning materials do not closely align with the intentions of the curriculum.”
- “This affects how well some pupils learn the curriculum.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 4 December 2024 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 42 first-preference applications, 48 offers in total, 42 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.
- Abbotswood Junior School 0.2 mi School remains Good (Improving) - S5 Next
- Oakfield Academy 0.5 mi Good Last distance published
- Eling Infant School and Nursery 0.6 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Hazel Wood Infant School 0.8 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Calmore Infant School 1.0 mi School remains Good (Improving) - S5 Next Last distance published
- Calmore Junior School 1.0 mi No Ofsted grade
- Foxhills Infant School 1.2 mi School remains Good (Improving) - S5 Next Last distance published
- Foxhills Junior School 1.2 mi Standards maintained