St Bede's Catholic Primary School
Primary · Voluntary aided school · Ages 4–11 · Basingstoke, Hampshire
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
Not published
From Hampshire County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2019–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
St Bede's Catholic Primary School is a primary school in Basingstoke, Hampshire for ages 4–11 (voluntary aided school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 13 September 2023. Hampshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2019 to 2026 entry.
St Bede's Catholic 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 | Not published |
| 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
- 4.9% of pupils are eligible for free school meals; the middle figure across the 8 nearest primary schools in Hampshire is 31.8%.
- For Reception 2026, there were 60 first-choice applications for 60 offers: 59 offers went to first-choice families, and 1 first-choice family (2%) was not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 85% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 21% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- 2024/25: 85% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, the highest of 5 schools: this one and the 4 of the 8 nearest primary schools in Hampshire 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
- Popley Way, Basingstoke, RG24 9DX
- Type
- Voluntary aided school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Council
- Hampshire
- Pupils on roll
- 451 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 4.9% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 25.7
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 13 September 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils flourish in this nurturing, inclusive school.”
- “They describe St Bede’s as ‘caring, loving and encouraging’.”
- “Pupils enjoy celebrating cultural diversity through events such as ‘International Day’.”
To improve
- “However, in a few subjects, where the curriculum requires further strengthening, the knowledge that pupils need is not yet identified and sequenced precisely enough.”
- “This means that pupils do not build up their knowledge and skills as systematically as they do in the strongest subjects.”
- “While pupils achieve well across all their subjects, in a few, they could do even better.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 5 October 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) | 85% | 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: 60 first-preference applications, 60 offers in total, 59 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.
- Merton Infant School and Nursery 0.3 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Merton Junior School 0.3 mi School remains Good
- Marnel Junior School 0.5 mi Outstanding
- Marnel Community Infant School 0.5 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Oakridge Infant School 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Oakridge Junior School 0.7 mi Improved significantly
- South View Infant and Nursery School 0.7 mi School remains Good (Concerns) - S5 Next Last distance published
- South View Junior School 0.7 mi School remains Good