Banister Primary School
Primary · Foundation school · Ages 4–11 · Southampton
Last distance offered · Reception 2024
1.322 miles
Published by Southampton City Council · offers on 16 April 2024
2017–2023 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Banister Primary School is a primary school in Southampton for ages 4–11 (foundation school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 24 April 2024. Southampton has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2017 to 2024 entry.
Banister 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 | 1.322 mi |
| Reception 2023 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2019 | 🔒 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 2024 lived 1.322 miles away, the 3rd shortest of 8 Southampton primary schools with a published Reception 2024 last distance.
- Reception last distances swung sharply between some years, and the 2024 figure was the longest of the 4 years with a published distance.
- Reception 2026 had 37 first-choice applications for 55 offers, 0.7 first choices per offer, the lowest of 44 Southampton primary schools; every first-choice family was offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 67% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of primary school (England 62%), and 10% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
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
- Archers Road, Southampton, SO15 2LS
- Type
- Foundation school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- Southampton
- Pupils on roll
- 417 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 34.3% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 20.2
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 24 April 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils thrive in this caring and nurturing school.”
- “The above average proportions of pupils who are disadvantaged are supported well.”
- “Staff have high aspirations for all pupils to achieve their very best, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) and the high numbers of pupils who speak English as an additional language.”
To improve
- “The school acknowledges there is more work to be done in other subjects to check pupils’ recall of the most important content and to refine how staff use this information to inform teaching.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 24 May 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) | 67% | 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: 37 first-preference applications, 55 offers in total, 37 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.
- Springhill Catholic Primary School 0.3 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Bevois Town Primary School 0.5 mi School remains Good (Improving) - S5 Next Last distance published
- Mount Pleasant Juniors 0.7 mi Outstanding
- Mount Pleasant Infants 0.7 mi Not judged
- Freemantle Church of England Community Academy 0.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Mary's Church of England Primary School & Nursery 1.0 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Shirley Infant School 1.1 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Shirley Junior School 1.1 mi School remains Good