Sarisbury Infant School
Primary · Community school · Ages 5–7 · 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 🔒
Sarisbury Infant School is a primary school in Southampton, Hampshire for ages 5–7 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 7 February 2023. Hampshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2019 to 2026 entry.
Sarisbury 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 4 earlier years, and that distance swung sharply between some years.
- For Reception 2026 there were 74 first-choice applications for 80 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 6 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- In January 2026 there were 24.6 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 22.9 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
- Barnes Lane, Sarisbury Green, Southampton, SO31 7BJ
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 5–7
- Council
- Hampshire
- Pupils on roll
- 261 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 8.4% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 24.6
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 7 February 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils are safe and happy in this friendly, nurturing school.”
- “Leaders and staff have created an environment where all pupils, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), thrive.”
- “Pupils are polite, caring and hard-working.”
To improve
- “In a few subjects though, staff do not have such strong subject knowledge.”
- “They sometimes choose activities that do not support learning effectively.”
- “Here, pupils do not learn as well as they could.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 31 March 2023 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 74 first-preference applications, 80 offers in total, 74 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.
- Sarisbury Church of England Junior School 0.4 mi Standards maintained
- Park Gate Primary School 0.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Locks Heath Junior School 1.1 mi Not judged
- Locks Heath Infant & Nursery School 1.1 mi Good Last distance published
- Hook-With-Warsash Church of England Academy 1.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St John the Baptist Church of England Primary School 1.4 mi School remains Good
- Whiteley Primary School 1.5 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- St Anthony's Catholic Primary School 1.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published