Fordingbridge Infant School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–7 · Fordingbridge, Hampshire
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From Hampshire County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2019–2025 trend 🔒
Fordingbridge Infant School is a primary school in Fordingbridge, Hampshire for ages 4–7 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Standards maintained, from the inspection on 6 November 2024. Hampshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2019 to 2026 entry.
Fordingbridge 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 was offered a Reception place in 2026, as was the case at 204 of the 315 other Hampshire primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome.
- The 2026 Reception entry had 43 first-choice applications for 43 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
- 15% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 19.2% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Hampshire.
- The school has 22.9 pupils per teacher, compared with a middle figure of 21.5 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
- Pennys Lane, Fordingbridge, SP6 1HJ
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–7
- Council
- Hampshire
- Pupils on roll
- 160 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 15% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 22.9
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Standards maintained Inspected 6 November 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils enjoy coming to this warm and happy school.”
- “Staff know their pupils well and work with families to make sure that pupils arrive at lessons ready to learn.”
- “These are woven through the curriculum and modelled by the adults.”
To improve
- “However, in a few subjects, teachers do not present information as clearly as they could.”
- “Sometimes, the activities that they choose do not help pupils to remember the key information that they need to recall.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 29 November 2024 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 43 first-preference applications, 43 offers in total, 43 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.
- Fordingbridge Junior School 0.0 mi Good
- Breamore Church of England Primary School 1.7 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Hyde Church of England Primary School 2.2 mi Good Last distance published
- Western Downland Church of England Aided Primary School 2.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Hale Primary School 3.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Poulner Junior School 5.5 mi Standards maintained
- Poulner Infant School and Nursery 5.5 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Ringwood Church of England Infant School 6.3 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published