Anton Infant School
Primary · Community school · Ages 5–7 · Andover, 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 🔒
Anton Infant School is a primary school in Andover, Hampshire for ages 5–7 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Standards maintained, from the inspection on 2 April 2025. Hampshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2019 to 2026 entry.
Anton 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.
- In Reception, places ran out (a last distance was published) in all 5 earlier years, and that distance swung sharply between some years.
- For Reception 2026 there were 31 first-choice applications for 37 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 6 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- 13.3% of pupils were eligible for free school meals in January 2026, against a middle figure of 17.7% 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
- Wellesley Road, Anton Infant School, Andover, SP10 2HF
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 5–7
- Council
- Hampshire
- Pupils on roll
- 150 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 13.3% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 19.7
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Standards maintained Inspected 2 April 2025
Strengths
- “Anton County Infant School is a welcoming and inclusive community.”
- “Pupils enjoy coming to school each day and attend regularly.”
- “The school is ambitious for all pupils and has high expectations of their learning.”
To improve
- “However, in some subjects, the school does not check how well pupils have remembered previously taught knowledge.”
- “This means that pupils in these subjects do not achieve as well as they could.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 16 May 2025 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 31 first-preference applications, 37 offers in total, 31 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.
- Anton Junior School 0.0 mi Not judged
- Andover Church of England Primary School 0.6 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Balksbury Junior School 0.8 mi Improved significantly
- Balksbury Infant School 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- St John the Baptist Catholic Primary School, Andover 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Vigo Primary School 1.2 mi Good Last distance published
- Portway Infant School 1.3 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Portway Junior School 1.3 mi Not judged