Poulner Infant School and Nursery
Primary · Community school · Ages 2–7 · Ringwood, 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 🔒
Poulner Infant School and Nursery is a primary school in Ringwood, Hampshire for ages 2–7 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Standards maintained, from the inspection on 16 October 2024. Hampshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2019 to 2026 entry.
Poulner Infant School and Nursery 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
- In Reception 2026, every applicant was offered a place, as was also the case at 204 of the 315 other Hampshire primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome.
- Places ran out in all 4 earlier Reception years with a published last distance (2020, 2021, 2022 and 2024), and the distance swung sharply between some years.
- Reception 2026 had 57 first-choice applications for 58 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 1 offer went to a family who ranked the school second or lower.
- 11 of the 92 Reception 2026 applications (12%) came from families living outside Hampshire, and 3 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
- North Poulner Road, Ringwood, BH24 3LA
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–7
- Council
- Hampshire
- Pupils on roll
- 207 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 15% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 21.5
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Standards maintained Inspected 16 October 2024
Strengths
- “At the start of each day, they hurry happily into school.”
- “Pupils state confidently that ‘everyone is welcome here’.”
- “Their kind and respectful manner towards each other and to adults shows that this is truly the case.”
To improve
- “For these subjects, the important knowledge that pupils must learn is still not identified in sufficient detail or set out in the most sensible order.”
- “When this is the case, pupils do not always learn the intended curriculum effectively.”
- “However, sometimes pupils' errors are not picked up quickly enough and gaps in pupils’ understanding are left for too long.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 18 November 2024 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 57 first-preference applications, 58 offers in total, 57 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.
- Poulner Junior School 0.1 mi Standards maintained
- Ringwood Church of England Infant School 1.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Ringwood Junior School 1.2 mi Improved significantly
- Hyde Church of England Primary School 3.6 mi Good Last distance published
- Burley Primary School 3.8 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Sopley Primary School 5.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Fordingbridge Infant School 5.5 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Fordingbridge Junior School 5.5 mi Good