Old Basing 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 🔒
Old Basing 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 21 June 2022. Hampshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2019 to 2026 entry.
Old Basing 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 4 earlier Reception years with a published outcome, and that distance swung sharply between some years.
- For Reception 2026 there were 64 first-choice applications for 77 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 13 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- 3.6% of pupils are eligible for free school meals; the middle figure across the 8 nearest primary schools in Hampshire is 28.1%.
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
- Milkingpen Lane, Old Basing, Basingstoke, RG24 7DL
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–7
- Council
- Hampshire
- Pupils on roll
- 249 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 3.6% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 22.2
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 21 June 2022
Strengths
- “Pupils are full of enthusiasm for learning and proud to belong to Old Basing Infant School.”
- “They arrive every morning, happy and eager to learn.”
- “Pupils love being active at playtime and enjoy the different clubs on offer at lunchtime and after school.”
To improve
- “However, in a minority of subjects, such as history, leaders have not yet identified precisely enough the most important knowledge pupils need to learn.”
- “This means that staff are not always clear about the content they need to teach.”
- “However, on occasions, some teachers do not notice or address misconceptions in pupils’ understanding.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 21 September 2022 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 64 first-preference applications, 77 offers in total, 64 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.
- St Mary's Church of England Voluntary Aided Junior School 0.1 mi No Ofsted grade
- Great Binfields Primary School 1.0 mi Good Last distance published
- Rucstall Primary School 1.4 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- South View Infant and Nursery School 1.6 mi School remains Good (Concerns) - S5 Next Last distance published
- South View Junior School 1.6 mi School remains Good
- Four Lanes Community Junior School 1.7 mi Good
- Marnel Junior School 1.7 mi Outstanding
- Marnel Community Infant School 1.7 mi Outstanding Last distance published