Oakley Infant School
Primary · Community school · Ages 5–7 · Basingstoke, Hampshire
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
3.01 miles
Published by Hampshire County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2019–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Oakley Infant School is a primary school in Basingstoke, Hampshire for ages 5–7 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 2 February 2023. Hampshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2019 to 2026 entry.
Oakley 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 | 3.01 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
- The Reception 2026 last distance offered was 3.01 miles, the 24th longest of 88 Hampshire primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance; the middle was 1.41 miles.
- That Reception 2026 last distance was further than in 2025 and in 2019, and it has swung sharply between years, most of all from 2020 to 2021.
- Reception 2026 drew 57 first-choice applications for 59 offers; 55 offers went to first-choice families, 2 first-choice families were not offered a place, and 4 offers went to lower preferences.
- Free school meal eligibility is 7.7% of pupils, against a middle figure of 12.4% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Hampshire.
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
- Oakley Lane, Oakley, Basingstoke, RG23 7JZ
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 5–7
- Council
- Hampshire
- Pupils on roll
- 182 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 7.7% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 22.8
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 2 February 2023
Strengths
- “Respectful and kind relationships are at the heart of this school.”
- “As one parent said, reflecting the views of many, ‘[Pupils are part of] a friendly and caring school that creates the perfect environment for learning.”
- “A commitment to the vision of ‘strive, thrive and achieve together’ is shared by the whole school community.”
To improve
- “However, leaders have not yet implemented a systematic approach to precisely check that pupils have learned and remembered the intended content.”
- “Leaders acknowledge that this is an area to be further strengthened.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 24 March 2023 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 57 first-preference applications, 59 offers in total, 55 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.
- Oakley Church of England Junior School 0.1 mi School remains Good (Improving) - S5 Next
- Hounsome Fields Primary School 1.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Kempshott Infant School 1.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Kempshott Junior School 1.9 mi Good
- Chiltern Primary School 2.2 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Park View Primary School 2.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Mark's Church of England Primary School 2.4 mi School remains Good
- North Waltham Primary School 2.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published