Alver Valley Infant and Nursery School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–7 · 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 🔒
Alver Valley Infant and Nursery School is a primary school in Gosport, Hampshire for ages 3–7 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Standards maintained, from the inspection on 15 January 2025. Hampshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2019 to 2026 entry.
Alver Valley Infant and Nursery 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 for Reception 2026 was offered a place, as at 204 of the 315 other Hampshire primary schools with a published outcome; in 2021, places ran out.
- Reception 2026 had 46 first-choice applications for 47 offers, with 60 published places, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
- 32.6% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, below the 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
- 21 Falcon Meadows Way, Rowner, Gosport, PO13 8AA
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–7
- Council
- Hampshire
- Pupils on roll
- 175 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 32.6% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 20.2
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Standards maintained Inspected 15 January 2025
Strengths
- “This school has high expectations for what all pupils can achieve.”
- “Disadvantaged pupils, including pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), learn consistently well.”
- “Teachers expertly use time in nature to practise the new words pupils are learning and to build confidence in their physical abilities.”
To improve
- “However, the school has not yet placed the same emphasis on the development of pupils’ writing skills.”
- “This is either because sometimes pupils have not been taught these well enough or because gaps in learning these skills have not been identified and addressed.”
- “This means pupils sometimes make avoidable mistakes in their written work.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 11 February 2025 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 46 first-preference applications, 47 offers in total, 46 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.
- Alver Valley Junior School 0.0 mi School remains Good
- Grange Infant School 0.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Grange Junior School 0.5 mi School remains Good
- Gomer Infant School 0.9 mi Not judged Last distance published
- King's Academy Gomer 0.9 mi Not judged
- Rowner Infant School 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Brockhurst Primary School 1.0 mi Not judged Last distance published
- King's Academy Rowner 1.0 mi Good