Fryern Infant School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–7 · Eastleigh, Hampshire
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
1.97 miles
Published by Hampshire County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2019–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Fryern Infant School is a primary school in Eastleigh, Hampshire for ages 4–7 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 5 March 2024. Hampshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2019 to 2026 entry.
Fryern 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 | 1.97 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
- For Reception 2026, the last child offered a place lived 1.97 miles away, the 36th longest of the 88 Hampshire primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance (middle figure 1.41 miles).
- Reception 2026 had 46 first-choice applications for 45 offers; 45 offers went to first-choice families, so 1 first-choice family (2%) was not offered a place.
- 18.5% of pupils are eligible for free school meals; the middle figure across the 8 nearest primary schools in Hampshire is 12.9%.
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
- Oakmount Road, Chandler's Ford, Eastleigh, SO53 2LN
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–7
- Council
- Hampshire
- Pupils on roll
- 135 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 18.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 17.5
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 5 March 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils are kind and respectful at Fryern Infant School.”
- “They enjoy coming to school and feel safe.”
- “Pupils are confident learners.”
To improve
- “However, some staff need further support to ensure they have the expert skills to teach early reading precisely.”
- “This means not all pupils learn to read as quickly and fluently as they could.”
- “However, teachers sometimes set activities that do not allow pupils to learn as well as they could.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 29 April 2024 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 46 first-preference applications, 45 offers in total, 45 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.
- Fryern Junior School 0.0 mi School remains Good
- St Swithun Wells Catholic Primary School, Chandlers Ford 0.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Merdon Junior School 0.3 mi Not judged
- Chandler's Ford Infant School 0.4 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Scantabout Primary School 0.4 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Shakespeare Junior School 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade
- Shakespeare Infant School 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Hiltingbury Infant School 1.0 mi Outstanding Last distance published