Marlborough Infant School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–7 · Aldershot, Hampshire
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From Hampshire County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2019–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Marlborough Infant School is a primary school in Aldershot, Hampshire for ages 4–7 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Standards maintained, from the inspection on 13 May 2025. Hampshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2019 to 2026 entry.
Marlborough 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 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| 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
- Every Reception applicant was offered a place in 2026, but places ran out in all 3 earlier years with a published outcome, and the last distance swung sharply between some years.
- For Reception 2026 there were 15 first-choice applications for 19 offers (0.8 first choices per offer, 17th lowest of 320 Hampshire primary schools); every first-choice family was offered a place.
- The school has 27 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 21.1 across the 8 nearest primary schools in Hampshire, with 81 pupils on roll in January 2026.
- 6.2% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, below the middle figure of 11.3% 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
- Redvers Buller Road, Aldershot, GU11 2HR
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–7
- Council
- Hampshire
- Pupils on roll
- 81 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 6.2% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 27
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Standards maintained Inspected 13 May 2025
Strengths
- “Pupils thrive in this school, which makes ‘every moment matter’.”
- “No time is wasted in welcoming new pupils and helping them start learning straight away.”
- “Whenever they join, each new pupil gets the special help that they need to settle in swiftly.”
To improve
- “However, these checks are not always consistently followed.”
- “For example, staff do not always use questions precisely enough to check pupils’ understanding.”
- “As a result, misconceptions or mistakes are missed.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 19 June 2025 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 15 first-preference applications, 19 offers in total, 15 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.
- St Mark's Church of England Primary School 0.3 mi No Ofsted grade
- South Farnborough Infant School 0.4 mi Not judged Last distance published
- South Farnborough Junior School 0.8 mi Not judged
- Stanhope Primary School 1.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- The Cambridge Primary School 1.1 mi Good Last distance published
- St Patrick's Catholic Primary School 1.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Peter's Church of England Aided Junior School 1.4 mi Good
- Tower Hill Primary School 1.5 mi Not judged Last distance published