Oliver's Battery Primary and Nursery School
Primary · Community school · Ages 2–11 · Winchester, 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 🔒
Oliver's Battery Primary and Nursery School is a primary school in Winchester, Hampshire for ages 2–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Standards maintained, from the inspection on 15 January 2025. Hampshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2019 to 2026 entry.
Oliver's Battery Primary and Nursery 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 was offered a Reception place in 2026, as at 204 of the 315 other Hampshire primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome.
- In 2024/25, 55% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), the lowest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest primary schools in Hampshire.
- In 2024/25, 3% of pupils reached the higher standard in reading, writing and maths (England 8%).
- Reception 2026 had 23 first-choice applications for 23 offers, and every first-choice family was 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
- Austen Avenue, Olivers Battery, Winchester, SO22 4HP
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–11
- Council
- Hampshire
- Pupils on roll
- 204 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 16.7% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 23.7
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Standards maintained Inspected 15 January 2025
Strengths
- “Pupils are proud to be members of this school.”
- “Staff have high expectations of how all pupils behave and apply themselves to learning.”
- “Pupils are encouraged to meet these high standards by the caring and considerate staff.”
To improve
- “In a few subjects, the school has not identified the most important knowledge that they want pupils to remember.”
- “As a result, the learning is not always broken down into manageable chunks as well as it could be.”
- “Sometimes, teachers do not check that pupils have used challenging vocabulary and techniques.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 3 March 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) | 55% | 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: 23 first-preference applications, 23 offers in total, 23 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 Peter's Catholic Primary School, Winchester 0.6 mi Good Last distance published
- Stanmore Primary School 0.9 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St Faith's Church of England Primary School 1.1 mi Good Last distance published
- Compton All Saints Church of England Primary School 1.2 mi Good Last distance published
- Western Church of England Primary School 1.6 mi Not judged Last distance published
- All Saints Church of England Primary School 2.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Bede Church of England Primary School 2.1 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Weeke Primary School 2.1 mi School remains Good (Improving) - S5 Next Last distance published