Bidbury Infant School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–7 · Havant, Hampshire
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
1.26 miles
Published by Hampshire County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2019–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Bidbury Infant School is a primary school in Havant, Hampshire for ages 4–7 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Not judged, from the inspection on 15 October 2024. Hampshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2019 to 2026 entry.
Bidbury 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 | 1.26 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 drew 52 first-choice applications for 59 offers; 46 offers went to first-choice families and 6 first-choice families (12%) were not offered a place.
- The 2026 Reception last distance offered was 1.26 miles, the 35th shortest of the 88 Hampshire primary schools with a published last distance; the middle figure was 1.41 miles.
- Distances have swung sharply, most from 2019 to 2020; the 2026 Reception figure was nearer the school than in 2024 and further than in 2019.
- The share of pupils counted for free school meals is 17.2%, against a middle figure of 34.7% 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
- Fraser Road, Bedhampton, Havant, PO9 3EF
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–7
- Council
- Hampshire
- Pupils on roll
- 163 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 17.2% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 17
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Not judged Inspected 15 October 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils at Bidbury Infant School demonstrate the values of resilience, respect, self-regulation and independence.”
- “They love the characters connected to each value.”
- “These values drive decision-making in all areas of the school.”
To improve
- “However, in a few subjects, teachers do not check if pupils have gained the specific knowledge that is set out in the curriculum.”
- “This inhibits some pupils learning the intended knowledge in these areas.”
- “However, in some wider curriculum subjects where the curriculum is new, adaptations are not as sharply focused.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 14 November 2024 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 52 first-preference applications, 59 offers in total, 46 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.
- Bidbury Junior School 0.0 mi Standards maintained
- St Thomas More's Catholic Primary School, Havant 0.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Barncroft Primary School 0.4 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Trosnant Infant School 0.6 mi Good Last distance published
- Trosnant Junior School 0.6 mi School remains Good
- Bosmere Junior School 0.8 mi School remains Good
- Fairfield Infant School 0.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Alban's Church of England Aided Primary School 1.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published