Marnel Community Infant School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–7 · Basingstoke, Hampshire
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.79 miles
Published by Hampshire County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2019–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Marnel Community Infant School is a primary school in Basingstoke, Hampshire for ages 4–7 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Outstanding, from the inspection on 21 March 2023. Hampshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2019 to 2026 entry.
Marnel Community 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 | 0.79 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
- The last child offered a Reception place for 2026 lived 0.79 miles away, the 16th shortest of 88 Hampshire primary schools with a published last distance.
- For Reception, that 2026 distance was nearer the school than in 2025 and further than in 2020, and it swung sharply between some years.
- Reception 2026 had 134 first-choice applications for 117 offers; 114 offers went to first-choice families, and 20 first-choice families were not offered a place.
- The latest Ofsted outcome is Outstanding (21 March 2023); among the 8 nearest primary schools in Hampshire, 1 is Outstanding and 5 are Good.
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
- Shetland Road, Popley Way, Basingstoke, RG24 9PT
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–7
- Council
- Hampshire
- Pupils on roll
- 356 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 28.1% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 19
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Outstanding Inspected 21 March 2023
Strengths
- “This is a school where all pupils, regardless of their background, thrive.”
- “Staff are wonderfully ambitious about what pupils can learn.”
- “They know their subjects well and teach exciting and inspirational lessons.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 19 May 2023 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 134 first-preference applications, 117 offers in total, 114 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.
- Marnel Junior School 0.1 mi Outstanding
- St Bede's Catholic Primary School 0.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- South View Infant and Nursery School 0.7 mi School remains Good (Concerns) - S5 Next Last distance published
- South View Junior School 0.7 mi School remains Good
- Merton Infant School and Nursery 0.7 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Merton Junior School 0.8 mi School remains Good
- Oakridge Junior School 1.0 mi Improved significantly
- Great Binfields Primary School 1.0 mi Good Last distance published