Bitterne Manor Primary and Nursery School
Primary · Foundation school · Ages 3–11 · Southampton
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.656 miles
Published by Southampton City Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2017–2024 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Bitterne Manor Primary and Nursery School is a primary school in Southampton for ages 3–11 (foundation school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 4 June 2024. Southampton has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2017 to 2026 entry.
Bitterne Manor Primary and Nursery 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 | 0.656 mi |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2023 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2022 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2019 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2018 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2017 | 🔒 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 in 2026 lived 0.656 miles away, the 4th shortest of 14 Southampton primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance.
- That 2026 Reception distance was about the same as in 2024 and further than in 2017; the biggest swing between years came from 2018 to 2019.
- In 2024/25, 47% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of primary school (England 62%), and 0% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- That 2024/25 figure of 47% was the 2nd lowest of 7 schools: this one and the 6 of the 8 nearest primary schools in Southampton that have results.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Southampton schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Quayside Road, Bitterne Manor, Southampton, SO18 1DP
- Type
- Foundation school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Southampton
- Pupils on roll
- 224 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 28.6% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 20.3
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 4 June 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils strive to achieve the school’s ambition of ‘learning to be the best we can’.”
- “Through the school’s learning values, pupils are supported to think creatively and develop self-confidence.”
- “They are encouraged to take pride in their achievements.”
To improve
- “However, this is not the case in some foundation subjects where the focus is on pupils recalling knowledge they have learned recently.”
- “Consequently, in these subjects, they remember less of the important knowledge over time.”
- “However, there is variation in how end-of-topic assessments are used to support pupils’ future learning.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 3 July 2024 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Exam results
| Measure | School | England |
|---|---|---|
| Key stage 2 · reading, writing and maths, expected standard (2024/25) | 47% | 62% |
Department for Education school performance data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Nearby primary schools
Straight-line distance, in Southampton.
- Beechwood Junior School 0.5 mi Not judged
- St Denys Primary School 0.6 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Glenfield Infant School 0.6 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Bitterne Church of England Primary School 0.7 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Mount Pleasant Infants 0.7 mi Not judged
- Mount Pleasant Juniors 0.7 mi Outstanding
- Bitterne Park Primary & Nursery School - Part of the Learning Federation Partnership of Schools 0.9 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Bevois Town Primary School 0.9 mi School remains Good (Improving) - S5 Next Last distance published