North Farnborough Infant School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–7 · Farnborough, 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 🔒
North Farnborough Infant School is a primary school in Farnborough, Hampshire for ages 4–7 (community school). Hampshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2019 to 2026 entry.
North Farnborough 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 2026 applicant was offered a place, but places ran out in all 3 earlier years with a published outcome: 2019, 2022 and 2025.
- Reception 2026 drew 36 first-choice applications for 43 offers, with a published admission number of 60 places; every first-choice family was offered a place.
- For Reception 2026, 7 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower, and there were 0.8 first choices per offer, the 37th lowest of 320 Hampshire primary schools.
- 8.8% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 18.5% 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
- Rectory Road, Farnborough, GU14 8AJ
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–7
- Council
- Hampshire
- Pupils on roll
- 170 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 8.8% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 22.4
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
No Ofsted grade Inspected 12 May 2026
Strengths
- “Pupils love coming to this happy and inclusive school.”
- “They are greeted by staff who care about them and their needs, every day.”
- “Those who need help to attend more regularly get the support they need.”
To improve
- “Pupils’ handwriting and spelling are less secure.”
- “It is too soon to see the full impact, however.”
- “This means that, for some pupils, errors in letter formation and spelling persist.”
Safeguarding: met
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 22 June 2026 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 36 first-preference applications, 43 offers in total, 36 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 Patrick's Catholic Primary School 0.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Peter's Church of England Aided Junior School 0.5 mi Good
- Cherrywood Community Primary School 0.8 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St Bernadette's Catholic Primary School 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- South Farnborough Junior School 1.1 mi Not judged
- Grange Community Junior School 1.2 mi Not judged
- Farnborough Grange Nursery & Infant Community School 1.3 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Tower Hill Primary School 1.4 mi Not judged Last distance published