Cumberland Infant School
Primary · Community school · Ages 2–7 · Southsea, Portsmouth
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.568 miles
Published by Portsmouth City Council · offers on 16 April 2026
Reception last distance offered, 2019–2026 (miles)
Cumberland Infant School is a primary school in Southsea, Portsmouth for ages 2–7 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 6 December 2022. Portsmouth has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2018 to 2026 entry.
Cumberland 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 | 0.568 mi |
| Reception 2025 | 0.968 mi |
| Reception 2024 | 0.238 mi |
| Reception 2023 | 0.347 mi |
| Reception 2022 | 0.571 mi |
| Reception 2021 | 0.3 mi |
| Reception 2020 | 0.2 mi |
| Reception 2019 | 0.131 mi |
| Reception 2018 | 0.236 mi |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- In 2026, the last child offered a Reception place lived 0.568 miles away, the 8th longest of 16 Portsmouth primary schools with a published last distance, where the middle figure was 0.57 miles.
- That 2026 Reception distance was nearer the school than in 2025 and further than in 2018, and the distance swung sharply between some years.
- In 2026, Reception had 69 first-choice applications for 60 offers; 60 offers went to first-choice families, so 9 first-choice families (13%) were not offered a place.
- 12.8% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 30.4% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Portsmouth, and there are 24.9 pupils per teacher against 20.1.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Portsmouth schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Methuen Road, Southsea, PO4 9HJ
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–7
- Council
- Portsmouth
- Pupils on roll
- 172 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 12.8% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 24.9
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 6 December 2022
Strengths
- “Pupils are keen and excited to learn.”
- “Leaders have high expectations for pupils to learn a broad range of knowledge in a wide variety of subjects.”
- “This starts in the early years, where children enjoy learning to jump, climb and construct in the brand new ‘physical development zone’.”
To improve
- “However, some subjects are at an earlier stage of development.”
- “In these subjects, some teachers’ subject knowledge is not as deep and detailed as it could be.”
- “This means that they do not consistently design tasks that enable all pupils to achieve as well as they could.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 27 January 2023 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 69 first-preference applications, 60 offers in total, 60 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 Portsmouth.
- Wimborne Primary School 0.2 mi Good Last distance published
- Milton Park Primary School 0.4 mi Good Last distance published
- Devonshire Infant School 0.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Craneswater Junior School 0.4 mi School remains Good
- Fernhurst Junior School 0.4 mi School remains Good
- Bramble Infant School and Nursery 0.6 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Meon Infant School 0.6 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Meon Junior School 0.6 mi No Ofsted grade