Badshot Lea Village Infant School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–7 · Farnham, Surrey
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
1.08 miles
Published by Surrey County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
Reception last distance offered, 2024–2026 (miles)
Badshot Lea Village Infant School is a primary school in Farnham, Surrey for ages 4–7 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Not judged, from the inspection on 25 March 2025. Surrey has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2024 to 2026 entry.
Badshot Lea Village 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 | 1.08 mi |
| Reception 2025 | 1.35 mi |
| Reception 2024 | 3.29 mi |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- For Reception 2026 the last child offered a place lived 1.08 miles away, 53rd shortest of the 113 Surrey primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance.
- The distance swung sharply between years, the biggest move from 2024 to 2025, and the 2026 figure was the shortest of the 3 years with a published distance.
- In 2026 there were 42 first-choice applications for 45 Reception offers; 34 offers went to first-choice families, and 8 first-choice families (19%) were not offered a place.
- 47 of the 116 applications (41%) for Reception 2026 came from families living outside Surrey, and 24 offers went to them.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Surrey schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Badshot Lea Road, Badshot Lea, Farnham, GU9 9LE
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–7
- Council
- Surrey
- Pupils on roll
- 147 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 12.9% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 18.7
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Not judged Inspected 25 March 2025
Strengths
- “This school is at the heart of its community.”
- “Staff know the pupils and their families well.”
- “It is a very happy, friendly and safe place in which to learn.”
To improve
- “However, in some other subjects, the precise knowledge the school expects pupils to learn is not always as clearly defined.”
- “This means pupils do not build their knowledge, skills and vocabulary as well as they could.”
- “While some pupils call out unnecessarily or are disengaged from their learning for short periods, staff typically deal very effectively with this.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 7 May 2025 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 42 first-preference applications, 45 offers in total, 34 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 Surrey.
- William Cobbett Primary School 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Paul's CofE Primary School & Nursery 1.6 mi Good Last distance published
- South Farnham School 1.7 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- St Polycarp's Catholic Primary School 1.7 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Hale Nursery & Primary Academy 1.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Walsh CofE Infant School 1.8 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Walsh CofE Junior School 1.8 mi No Ofsted grade
- Folly Hill Infant Academy 1.9 mi Not judged Last distance published