Elson Infant School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–7 · Gosport, 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 🔒
Elson Infant School is a primary school in Gosport, Hampshire for ages 4–7 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 20 March 2024. Hampshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2019 to 2026 entry.
Elson 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 applicant was offered a Reception place in 2026, as at 204 of the 315 other Hampshire primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome; places ran out in 2020.
- Reception 2026 drew 59 first-choice applications for 60 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 1 offer went to a family who ranked it second or lower.
- 16.5% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 37.4% 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
- Elson Lane, Gosport, PO12 4EU
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–7
- Council
- Hampshire
- Pupils on roll
- 206 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 16.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 19.2
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 20 March 2024
Strengths
- “This is a highly inclusive school.”
- “Pupils arrive to the school and are greeted by smiling staff and music that builds excitement for the day ahead.”
- “The school’s learning superheroes are a golden thread that runs through the school.”
To improve
- “Pupils acknowledge that sometimes bullying might happen.”
- “However, in some areas of the wider curriculum, the school is still refining exactly what should be taught and when.”
- “This means that teachers are not always clear on the precise knowledge that pupils should learn and when they should learn it.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 7 May 2024 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 59 first-preference applications, 60 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.
- Elson Junior School 0.1 mi Good
- Brockhurst Primary School 0.5 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St John's, Gosport Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School 0.6 mi Requires improvement
- St Mary's Catholic Primary School 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- King's Academy Rowner 0.9 mi Good
- Rowner Infant School 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Newtown Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School 1.1 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Leesland Church of England Controlled Infant School 1.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published