Northern Infant School
Primary · Community school · Ages 5–7 · Fareham, Hampshire
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.99 miles
Published by Hampshire County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2019–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Northern Infant School is a primary school in Fareham, Hampshire for ages 5–7 (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.
Northern 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 | 0.99 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 in 2026 lived 0.99 miles away, the 25th shortest of 88 Hampshire primary schools with a published last distance (middle figure 1.41 miles).
- The 2026 Reception last distance was further from the school than in 2020.
- For Reception 2026 there were 49 first-choice applications for 45 offers: 43 offers went to first-choice families, and 6 first-choice families (12%) were not offered a place.
- 34 of the 100 Reception 2026 applications (34%) came from families living outside Hampshire, and 17 offers went to them.
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
- Richmond Rise, Portchester, Fareham, PO16 8DG
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 5–7
- Council
- Hampshire
- Pupils on roll
- 130 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 9.2% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 20.3
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 5 October 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils thrive at this friendly and attentive school.”
- “They are happy and take pride in their learning.”
- “There is a strong ethos of respect in the school.”
To improve
- “However, in some foundation subjects, the curriculum does not revisit previous learning routinely, which means that, over time, pupils struggle to recall some of the important knowledge they have previously been taught.”
- “This is not yet embedded consistently across all foundation subjects.”
- “Currently, pupils’ knowledge gaps are not routinely addressed.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 27 November 2023 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 49 first-preference applications, 45 offers in total, 43 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.
- Northern Junior School 0.0 mi Good
- Red Barn Community Primary School 0.2 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Wicor Primary School 0.6 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Castle Primary School 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Harrison Primary School 2.2 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Redlands Primary School 2.4 mi School remains Outstanding (Concerns) - S5 Next Last distance published
- Bedenham Primary School 2.4 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Woodcot Primary School 2.6 mi Not judged Last distance published