Swaythling Primary School
Primary · Foundation school · Ages 4–11 · Southampton
Last distance offered · Reception 2024
2.940 miles
Published by Southampton City Council · offers on 16 April 2024
2017–2023 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Swaythling Primary School is a primary school in Southampton for ages 4–11 (foundation school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Standards maintained, from the inspection on 22 January 2025. Southampton has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2017 to 2024 entry.
Swaythling Primary 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 2024 | 2.940 mi |
| Reception 2023 | 🔒 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 Reception 2024 last distance offered was 2.940 miles, the 3rd longest of the 8 Southampton primary schools with a published Reception 2024 last distance (middle figure 1.76 miles).
- The Reception last distance has swung sharply between years, with the biggest move from 2023 to 2024, and the 2024 figure was the longest of the 5 years with a published distance.
- For Reception 2026 there were 25 first-choice applications for 27 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 2 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- 66% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths in 2024/25 (England 62%), 5th highest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest primary schools in Southampton.
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
- Mayfield Road, Southampton, SO17 3SZ
- Type
- Foundation school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- Southampton
- Pupils on roll
- 201 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 39.8% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 16.2
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Standards maintained Inspected 22 January 2025
Strengths
- “Pupils learn in a happy, safe and secure school, reflecting the exceptionally high levels of care shown by staff.”
- “The school puts pupils at the centre of all that it does.”
- “One parent’s comments are a reflection of many, ‘Staff are always extremely caring.’”
To improve
- “The school rightly recognises that in some subjects in the wider curriculum, pupils are not making as much progress through the curriculum as they could.”
- “This is because the school has not identified all of the key knowledge that pupils need to learn in these subjects.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 4 March 2025 (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) | 66% | 62% |
Department for Education school performance data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 25 first-preference applications, 27 offers in total, 25 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 Southampton.
- Bassett Green Primary School 0.2 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Portswood Primary School 0.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Highfield Church of England Primary School 0.5 mi Good Last distance published
- Bitterne Park Primary & Nursery School - Part of the Learning Federation Partnership of Schools 0.7 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St Denys Primary School 0.8 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Mansbridge Primary School 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Bevois Town Primary School 1.3 mi School remains Good (Improving) - S5 Next Last distance published
- Hollybrook Junior School 1.4 mi School remains Good