Four Lanes Infant School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–7 · Basingstoke, Hampshire
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.45 miles
Published by Hampshire County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2019–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Four Lanes Infant School is a primary school in Basingstoke, Hampshire for ages 4–7 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 25 April 2023. Hampshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2019 to 2026 entry.
Four Lanes 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 | 0.45 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 last child offered a Reception place for 2026 lived 0.45 miles away, the 7th shortest of 88 Hampshire primary schools with a published last distance.
- For Reception, the 2026 last distance was nearer the school than in 2025 and than in 2019, and it swung sharply between some years.
- Reception 2026 had 88 first-choice applications for 90 offers; 79 offers went to first-choice families, 9 first-choice families were not offered a place, and 11 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- 14.1% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 28.1% 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
- Hanmore Road, Chineham, Basingstoke, RG24 8PQ
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–7
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Hampshire
- Pupils on roll
- 263 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 14.1% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 20.8
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 25 April 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils are proud to attend this harmonious and inclusive community.”
- “Leaders are determined for every pupil to ‘learn without limits’.”
- “They ensure that the curriculum is broad and highly ambitious.”
To improve
- “However, the curriculum is still being refined in some subjects.”
- “In these areas, leaders still need to identify in full the key knowledge pupils need to learn.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 15 June 2023 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 88 first-preference applications, 90 offers in total, 79 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.
- Four Lanes Community Junior School 0.1 mi Good
- Great Binfields Primary School 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Marnel Community Infant School 1.1 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Marnel Junior School 1.1 mi Outstanding
- St Bede's Catholic Primary School 1.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- South View Infant and Nursery School 1.7 mi School remains Good (Concerns) - S5 Next Last distance published
- St Mary's Church of England Voluntary Aided Junior School 1.7 mi No Ofsted grade
- South View Junior School 1.7 mi School remains Good