Southwood Infant School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–7 · Farnborough, 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 🔒
Southwood Infant School is a primary school in Farnborough, Hampshire for ages 4–7 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 19 April 2023. Hampshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2019 to 2026 entry.
Southwood 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 2026 there were 28 first-choice applications for 32 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 4 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- Every applicant was offered a place for Reception in 2026, but places ran out in all 4 earlier years, when a last distance was published, and that distance swung sharply between some years.
- 5.9% of pupils are eligible for free school meals; the middle figure across the 8 nearest primary schools in Hampshire is 17.6%.
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
- Southwood Lane, Southwood, Farnborough, GU14 0NE
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–7
- Council
- Hampshire
- Pupils on roll
- 119 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 5.9% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 18.6
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 19 April 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils are extremely happy to come to this nurturing school, where staff know each child as an individual.”
- “The school values of excellence, respect and enjoyment permeate through every aspect of school life.”
- “Leaders have high expectations that every pupil will follow an ambitious curriculum and develop skills to foster a lifelong love of learning.”
To improve
- “Other subjects are not quite where the school would like them to be.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 15 June 2023 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 28 first-preference applications, 32 offers in total, 28 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.
- Parsonage Farm Nursery and Infant School 0.6 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Cove Junior School 0.7 mi School remains Good
- Tower Hill Primary School 0.7 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Cove Infant School 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Manor Infant School 1.0 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
- Manor Junior School 1.0 mi Not judged
- Guillemont Junior School 1.0 mi Not judged
- St Bernadette's Catholic Primary School 1.2 mi Good Last distance published