Morelands Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–11 · Waterlooville, 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 🔒
Morelands Primary School is a primary school in Waterlooville, Hampshire for ages 4–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 22 November 2022. Hampshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2019 to 2026 entry.
Morelands Primary 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 Reception 2026 applicant was offered a place, but places ran out in 2019, 2020 and 2024; the last distance swung sharply, with the biggest move from 2020 to 2024.
- Reception 2026 drew 37 first-choice applications for 42 offers: every first-choice family was offered a place, and 5 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- Of the 80 Reception 2026 applications, 8 (10%) came from families living outside Hampshire; 3 offers went to them.
- 2024/25: 43% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, lowest of 6 schools: this one and 5 of the 8 nearest Hampshire primary schools that have results.
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
- Crookhorn Lane, Purbrook, Morelands Primary School, Waterlooville, PO7 5QL
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- Hampshire
- Pupils on roll
- 315 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 34.9% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 17.7
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 22 November 2022
Strengths
- “At Morelands Primary School, pupils show how important their values of ‘thrive, create and achieve’ are.”
- “Pupils thrive and achieve because of the high ambitions their teachers have for them.”
- “They know that adults in school want what is best for them.”
To improve
- “A small number of subject leaders are still establishing these deliberate links between their subjects and the curriculum in Reception.”
- “Subsequently, not all staff in the older year groups understand the knowledge that the youngest children have and so cannot effectively build on that knowledge as they enter Year 1.”
- “However, in a small number of foundation subjects, not all activities are as ambitious as they could be.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 16 January 2023 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Exam results
| Measure | School | England |
|---|---|---|
| Key stage 2 · reading, writing and maths, expected standard (2024/25) | 43% | 62% |
Department for Education school performance data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 37 first-preference applications, 42 offers in total, 37 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.
- Purbrook Infant School 0.8 mi Improved significantly Last distance published
- Purbrook Junior School 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade
- St Peter's Catholic Primary School, Waterlooville 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Mill Hill Primary School 1.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Springwood Junior School 1.2 mi School remains Good
- Springwood Infant School 1.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Barncroft Primary School 1.4 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Bidbury Junior School 1.5 mi Standards maintained