Tower Hill Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–11 · Farnborough, Hampshire
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.93 miles
Published by Hampshire County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2019–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Tower Hill Primary School is a primary school in Farnborough, Hampshire for ages 4–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Not judged, from the inspection on 12 November 2024. Hampshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2019 to 2026 entry.
Tower Hill 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 2026 | 0.93 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
- 2024/25 reading, writing and maths: 75% (England 62%), the highest of 6 schools: this one and the 5 of the 8 nearest primary schools in Hampshire that have results.
- 67 first-choice applications for 59 offers in Reception 2026; 59 offers went to first-choice families, and 8 first-choice families (12%) were not offered a place.
- The last child offered a Reception place for 2026 lived 0.93 miles away, the 24th shortest of 88 Hampshire primary schools with a published last distance (middle 1.41 miles).
- The 2026 Reception last distance was further from the school than in 2025 and than in 2019, and the figure has swung sharply between some years.
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
- Fowler Road, Farnborough, GU14 0BW
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- Hampshire
- Pupils on roll
- 418 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 24.2% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 22.7
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Not judged Inspected 12 November 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils love coming to Tower Hill.”
- “They know their teachers care about them.”
- “They benefit greatly from a range of initiatives that help to support their social and emotional needs.”
To improve
- “However, a minority of teaching does not enable pupils to develop their knowledge and skills for fluency or deepen their understanding of what they read.”
- “As a result, a minority of pupils do not progress through the reading curriculum up to Year 6 as well as they could.”
- “This is not quite as strong in some other subjects, where the curriculum has been revised more recently.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 11 December 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) | 75% | 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: 67 first-preference applications, 59 offers in total, 59 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.
- Southwood Infant School 0.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Cove Junior School 0.8 mi School remains Good
- St Bernadette's Catholic Primary School 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- St Peter's Church of England Aided Junior School 1.0 mi Good
- Cove Infant School 1.0 mi Good Last distance published
- Manor Infant School 1.1 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
- Manor Junior School 1.1 mi Not judged
- St Patrick's Catholic Primary School 1.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published