Rowner 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 🔒
Rowner Infant School is a primary school in Gosport, Hampshire for ages 4–7 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 11 June 2024. Hampshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2019 to 2026 entry.
Rowner 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
- For Reception in 2026, there were 43 first-choice applications for 43 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
- 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.
- 32.4% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 43% 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
- Copse Lane, Rowner, Gosport, PO13 0DH
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–7
- Council
- Hampshire
- Pupils on roll
- 145 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 32.4% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 18.1
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 11 June 2024
Strengths
- “Rowner Infant School is welcoming, inclusive and nurturing.”
- “Staff care deeply for the pupils’ well-being.”
- “As a result, pupils are happy and safe.”
To improve
- “However, some pupils do not get the consistent support they need to catch up.”
- “This means they do not always make the rapid progress they could.”
- “In other subjects, this is not as effective.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 12 July 2024 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 43 first-preference applications, 43 offers in total, 43 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.
- King's Academy Rowner 0.1 mi Good
- Grange Infant School 0.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Grange Junior School 0.5 mi School remains Good
- Bedenham Primary School 0.7 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Holbrook Primary School 0.8 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Peel Common Primary School 0.8 mi Not judged
- Alver Valley Infant and Nursery School 0.9 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Alver Valley Junior School 0.9 mi School remains Good