Scantabout Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–11 · Eastleigh, Hampshire
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
1.35 miles
Published by Hampshire County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2019–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Scantabout Primary School is a primary school in Eastleigh, Hampshire for ages 4–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Standards maintained, from the inspection on 4 December 2024. Hampshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2019 to 2026 entry.
Scantabout Primary 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 | 1.35 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
- In 2024/25, 85% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 9% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- In Reception 2026 the last child offered a place lived 1.35 miles from the school, the 40th shortest of 88 Hampshire primary schools with a published last distance.
- The 2026 Reception last distance was about the same as in 2025 and further than in 2019, having swung sharply between some years.
- Reception 2026 had 35 first-choice applications for 30 offers; 30 offers went to first-choice families and 5 first-choice families were not offered a place.
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
- Ionic Close, Chandler's Ford, Eastleigh, SO53 2NR
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- Hampshire
- Pupils on roll
- 216 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 5.1% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 23.3
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Standards maintained Inspected 4 December 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils enjoy attending this friendly and nurturing school.”
- “This shows through their smiles and their keenness to learn.”
- “Most pupils never miss a day of learning through absence.”
To improve
- “However, some teachers’ checks on what pupils have learned in lessons are not as effective.”
- “Occasionally, some teachers try and cover too much in a lesson.”
- “They do not notice when this overloads some pupils’ thinking.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 13 January 2025 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Exam results
| Measure | School | England |
|---|---|---|
| Key stage 2 · reading, writing and maths, expected standard (2024/25) | 85% | 62% |
Department for Education school performance data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 35 first-preference applications, 30 offers in total, 30 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.
- Merdon Junior School 0.4 mi Not judged
- Fryern Infant School 0.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Fryern Junior School 0.4 mi School remains Good
- St Swithun Wells Catholic Primary School, Chandlers Ford 0.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Chandler's Ford Infant School 0.7 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Shakespeare Junior School 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade
- Shakespeare Infant School 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Hiltingbury Infant School 1.0 mi Outstanding Last distance published