Alverstoke Community Infant and Pre-School
Primary · Community school · Ages 2–7 · Gosport, Hampshire
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
1.04 miles
Published by Hampshire County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2019–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Alverstoke Community Infant and Pre-School is a primary school in Gosport, Hampshire for ages 2–7 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 10 October 2023. Hampshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2019 to 2026 entry.
Alverstoke Community Infant and Pre-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 | 1.04 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
- The last child offered a Reception place for 2026 lived 1.04 miles away, the 27th shortest of 88 Hampshire primary schools with a published last distance.
- The 2026 Reception last distance was nearer the school than in 2024 and in 2019, though it swung sharply between some years.
- For Reception 2026 there were 65 first-choice applications for 59 offers; 59 offers went to first-choice families, and 6 first-choice families were not offered a place.
- 6.7% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 38% 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
- Ashburton Road, Alverstoke, Gosport, PO12 2LH
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–7
- Council
- Hampshire
- Pupils on roll
- 194 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 6.7% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 26.2
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 10 October 2023
Strengths
- “This is a warm and welcoming place to learn.”
- “The ‘wonderful walkers’ promote excellent conduct around the school site.”
- “They know how to be a good friend and look out for one another.”
To improve
- “However, in some subjects, pupils’ understanding is not as secure as leaders intend.”
- “This is because the choice of activities selected does not always match well with what pupils are learning.”
- “At times, the skills that pupils should learn are not broken down into manageable chunks.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 21 November 2023 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 65 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.
- Alverstoke Church of England Aided Junior School 0.4 mi School remains Good
- King's Academy Gomer 0.7 mi Not judged
- Gomer Infant School 0.7 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Haselworth Primary School 0.7 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Leesland Church of England Controlled Junior School 0.8 mi Good
- Leesland Church of England Controlled Infant School 0.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Mary's Catholic Primary School 1.1 mi Good Last distance published
- Newtown Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School 1.2 mi Standards maintained Last distance published