Bursledon Church of England Infant School
Primary · Voluntary controlled school · Ages 5–7 · Southampton, 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 🔒
Bursledon Church of England Infant School is a primary school in Southampton, Hampshire for ages 5–7 (voluntary controlled school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 6 July 2022. Hampshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2019 to 2026 entry.
Bursledon Church of England 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
- Every applicant was offered a Reception place in 2026, but places ran out in both 2022 and 2025.
- Reception 2026 drew 66 first-choice applications for 72 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 6 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- There are 26.2 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 22.1 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
- Long Lane, Bursledon, Southampton, SO31 8BZ
- Type
- Voluntary controlled school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 5–7
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Council
- Hampshire
- Pupils on roll
- 262 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 19.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 26.2
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 6 July 2022
Strengths
- “They say their teachers are kind and care for them.”
- “The school values, ‘love, respect, aspire’, teach pupils to be kind to one another and to be the best they can be.”
- “Pupils learn to embrace diversity and make sure to include everyone.”
To improve
- “Leaders are working on clarifying what teachers must teach in some foundation subjects for early years to Year 2.”
- “Leaders have not yet fully identified the core concepts that pupils need to learn.”
- “This means that sometimes teachers are not precisely sure what to focus on.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 21 September 2022 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 66 first-preference applications, 72 offers in total, 66 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.
- Bursledon Junior School(CA) 0.1 mi Good
- Hamble Primary School 1.5 mi Good Last distance published
- Sarisbury Church of England Junior School 1.6 mi Standards maintained
- Netley Abbey Infant School 1.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Netley Abbey Junior School 1.6 mi School remains Good
- Kings Copse Primary School 1.6 mi Good Last distance published
- Sarisbury Infant School 1.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Freegrounds Infant School 2.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published