Southbourne Infant School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–7 · Emsworth, West Sussex
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From West Sussex County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2018–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Southbourne Infant School is a primary school in Emsworth, West Sussex for ages 4–7 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 20 September 2023. West Sussex has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2018 to 2026 entry.
Southbourne 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 2018 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- Every Reception applicant was offered a place in 2026, as at 120 of the 208 other West Sussex primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome.
- Reception 2026 drew 43 first-choice applications for 46 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place; places ran out in 1 of the 4 earlier Reception years.
- Of the 98 Reception 2026 applications, 23 (23%) came from families living outside West Sussex, and 9 offers went to them.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other West Sussex schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- New Road, Southbourne, Emsworth, PO10 8JX
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–7
- Council
- West Sussex
- Pupils on roll
- 176 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 15.9% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 18.8
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 20 September 2023
Strengths
- “A warm welcome awaits everybody at this thriving and inclusive school.”
- “A new approach encouraging pupils to be ready, respectful and safe is working well.”
- “They treat each other with kindness, which is modelled by adults every day.”
To improve
- “Individual support is often effective, but it is not always consistent.”
- “Pupils benefit from the valuable rehearsal of sounds they need help with, but some pupils need more help to develop sufficient fluency.”
- “There are a couple of subjects that leaders acknowledge are less well developed.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 20 October 2023 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 43 first-preference applications, 46 offers in total, 43 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 West Sussex.
- Southbourne Junior School 0.0 mi School remains Good
- Chidham Parochial Primary School 1.4 mi Good Last distance published
- Westbourne Primary School 1.5 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Thorney Island Community Primary School 2.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Funtington Primary School 2.5 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Bosham Primary School 2.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Fishbourne CofE Primary School 4.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- West Wittering Parochial Church of England School 4.6 mi Good Last distance published