Balksbury Infant School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–7 · Andover, Hampshire
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
1.91 miles
Published by Hampshire County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2019–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Balksbury Infant School is a primary school in Andover, Hampshire for ages 4–7 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 26 April 2022. Hampshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2019 to 2026 entry.
Balksbury 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 | 1.91 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
- Reception 2026's last offer went 1.91 miles from the school, 37th longest of 88 Hampshire primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance (middle figure 1.41 miles).
- That Reception distance was nearer the school in 2026 than in 2025 and about the same as in 2019, having swung sharply between some years.
- Reception 2026 drew 103 first-choice applications for 89 offers; 83 offers went to first-choice families and 20 first-choice families (19%) were not offered a place.
- There are 18.9 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 22.1 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
- Floral Way, Salisbury Road, Andover, SP10 3QP
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–7
- Council
- Hampshire
- Pupils on roll
- 269 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 20.4% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 18.9
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 26 April 2022
Strengths
- “Leaders go out of their way to make sure that pupils and their families feel that they belong.”
- “Well-planned introductions to school mean that the children are already eagerly anticipating joining their Reception class in September.”
- “Older pupils act as buddies to classmates who join at other times.”
To improve
- “Leaders and those responsible for governance should ensure that they sustain and build on the school’s highly effective work so as to have a transformational impact on pupils’ achievement and wider development, particularly those who face barriers to learning.”
Safeguarding: met
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 9 September 2026 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 103 first-preference applications, 89 offers in total, 83 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.
- Balksbury Junior School 0.1 mi Improved significantly
- St John the Baptist Catholic Primary School, Andover 0.1 mi Good Last distance published
- Portway Infant School 0.6 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Portway Junior School 0.6 mi Not judged
- Anton Junior School 0.8 mi Not judged
- Anton Infant School 0.8 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Andover Church of England Primary School 1.2 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Vigo Primary School 1.7 mi Good Last distance published