Cove Infant School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–7 · Farnborough, Hampshire
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
1.1 miles
Published by Hampshire County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2019–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Cove Infant School is a primary school in Farnborough, Hampshire for ages 4–7 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 20 February 2024. Hampshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2019 to 2026 entry.
Cove 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 | 1.1 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
- For Reception 2026 the last child offered a place lived 1.1 miles away, 32nd shortest of 88 Hampshire primary schools with a published last distance (middle figure 1.41 miles).
- The Reception last distance was further in 2026 than in 2025 and 2019; the 2026 figure was the longest of the 4 years with a published distance.
- Reception 2026 drew 48 first-choice applications for 59 offers; 46 offers went to first-choice families and 2 first-choice families were not offered a place.
- 12.8% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 18% 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
- 92 Fernhill Road, Cove, Farnborough, GU14 9DP
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–7
- Council
- Hampshire
- Pupils on roll
- 172 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 12.8% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 19.1
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 20 February 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils greet you with happy smiles at this friendly, nurturing school.”
- “They know how important it is to make everyone feel welcomed and included.”
- “Pupils treat one another, adults and their environment with respect.”
To improve
- “However, in a small number of subjects, the important knowledge that pupils must know before considering new learning has not been identified precisely enough.”
- “Therefore, teachers cannot always check what pupils do not know and cannot do accurately enough.”
- “For example, sometimes teachers are not always assuring themselves that pupils can use important, specific skills with confidence.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 22 March 2024 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 48 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.
- Cove Junior School 0.2 mi School remains Good
- Manor Infant School 0.2 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
- Manor Junior School 0.2 mi Not judged
- Guillemont Junior School 0.5 mi Not judged
- Parsonage Farm Nursery and Infant School 0.5 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Pinewood Infant School 0.6 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Bernadette's Catholic Primary School 0.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Grange Community Junior School 0.7 mi Not judged