Horndean Infant School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–7 · Waterlooville, Hampshire
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
2.1 miles
Published by Hampshire County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2019–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Horndean Infant School is a primary school in Waterlooville, Hampshire for ages 3–7 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 6 July 2022. Hampshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2019 to 2026 entry.
Horndean 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 | 2.1 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
- In 2026, the last child offered a Reception place lived 2.1 miles away, the 34th longest of 88 Hampshire primary schools with a published last distance.
- The 2026 Reception last distance was further from the school than in 2025 and in 2020, and was the longest of the 5 years with a published distance.
- There were 94 first-choice applications for 90 offers for Reception in 2026; 86 offers went to first-choice families, and 8 first-choice families were not offered a place.
- 7.9% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 18.3% 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
- Merchistoun Road, Horndean, Waterlooville, PO8 9LS
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–7
- Council
- Hampshire
- Pupils on roll
- 266 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 7.9% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 23.8
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 6 July 2022
Strengths
- “Pupils get off to a good start at this school because they are helped to develop personally as well as academically.”
- “This is especially true in the early years where children benefit from an exceptional and well-considered range of opportunities to develop their social skills and learn new things.”
- “They like their teachers and know that they can trust them if they have a worry or if they need some extra support.”
To improve
- “However, leaders recognise that there are an increasing number of pupils in the school who struggle to learn to read.”
- “This is particularly the case in key stage 1 and has been negatively affected by the pandemic.”
- “Sometimes, the resources used to support these pupils are not precisely targeted at the sounds that are causing them difficulty.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 21 September 2022 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 94 first-preference applications, 90 offers in total, 86 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.
- Horndean Church of England Junior School 0.0 mi School remains Good
- Catherington Church of England Infant School 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Woodcroft Primary 1.2 mi Good Last distance published
- Padnell Junior School 1.4 mi School remains Good
- Padnell Infant School 1.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Petersgate Infant School 1.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Queen's Inclosure Primary School 1.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Hart Plain Infant School 1.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published