Kempshott Infant School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–7 · Basingstoke, 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 🔒
Kempshott Infant School is a primary school in Basingstoke, Hampshire for ages 4–7 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 24 May 2022. Hampshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2019 to 2026 entry.
Kempshott 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 for a Reception place in 2026 was offered one, as at 204 of the 315 other Hampshire primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome.
- Places ran out, with a last distance published, in all 6 earlier Reception years with a published outcome, and that distance swung sharply between some years.
- For Reception 2026 there were 58 first-choice applications for 73 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 15 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- 10.4% of pupils are eligible for free school meals; the middle figure across the 8 nearest primary schools in Hampshire is 30.2%.
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
- Old Down Close, Homestead Road, Kempshott, Basingstoke, RG22 5LL
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–7
- Council
- Hampshire
- Pupils on roll
- 270 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 10.4% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 25.4
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 24 May 2022
Strengths
- “Respectful relationships are at the heart of this school.”
- “Pupils are kind to each other and know that staff care about them.”
- “They are helped to understand the school rules of ‘kind words, kind hands, kind feet’.”
To improve
- “Curriculum thinking in other subjects is developed but needs some refinement.”
- “Leaders recognise they need to determine the precise content in each year group for each subject.”
- “They do not always ensure that pupils have learned and remembered the essential content.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 12 July 2022 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 58 first-preference applications, 73 offers in total, 58 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.
- Kempshott Junior School 0.0 mi Good
- Hatch Warren Junior School 0.7 mi Good
- Hatch Warren Infant School 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Park View Primary School 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Mark's Church of England Primary School 0.8 mi School remains Good
- Chiltern Primary School 1.1 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Manor Field Infant School 1.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Manor Field Junior School 1.1 mi School remains Good