Winklebury Infant School
Primary · Community school · Ages 2–7 · Basingstoke, 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 🔒
Winklebury Infant School is a primary school in Basingstoke, Hampshire for ages 2–7 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 5 October 2023. Hampshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2019 to 2026 entry.
Winklebury 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
- Reception 2026 had 21 first-choice applications for 26 offers, 0.8 first choices per offer, the 26th lowest of 320 Hampshire primary schools.
- Every Reception applicant was offered a place in 2026, and 5 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- There are 25.3 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 20.6 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
- Willoughby Way, Winklebury, Basingstoke, RG23 8AF
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–7
- Council
- Hampshire
- Pupils on roll
- 182 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 21.4% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 25.3
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 5 October 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils benefit from attending this highly inclusive school.”
- “All pupils, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), are given the help they need to achieve well.”
- “Subsequently, all pupils progress well through the curriculum.”
To improve
- “However, in a small number of foundation subjects, there are some changes still happening in the curriculum.”
- “This means that pupils are not learning equally as well in all subjects.”
- “However, the levels of persistent absence of vulnerable groups of pupils remain high.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 17 November 2023 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 21 first-preference applications, 26 offers in total, 21 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.
- Winklebury Junior School 0.0 mi School remains Good
- Castle Hill Infant School 0.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Castle Hill Primary School 0.5 mi Good Last distance published
- Oakridge Infant School 0.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Oakridge Junior School 1.0 mi Improved significantly
- Chiltern Primary School 1.0 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St Anne's Catholic Primary School 1.0 mi Good Last distance published
- Kings Furlong Infant School and Nursery 1.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published