Barncroft Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 2–11 · Havant, 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 🔒
Barncroft Primary School is a primary school in Havant, Hampshire for ages 2–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Standards maintained, from the inspection on 4 June 2025. Hampshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2019 to 2026 entry.
Barncroft 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
- Of its pupils, 42.1% are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 54.9% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Hampshire.
- Every applicant was offered a Reception place in 2026, though places ran out in 2 of the 7 earlier years with a published outcome.
- For Reception 2026, there were 46 first-choice applications for 52 offers: every first-choice family was offered a place, and 6 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 57% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 2% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
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
- Park Lane, Havant, PO9 3HN
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–11
- Council
- Hampshire
- Pupils on roll
- 435 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 42.1% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 19.7
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Standards maintained Inspected 4 June 2025
Strengths
- “This is a nurturing and inclusive school that welcomes pupils into its caring community.”
- “Relationships between staff and pupils are strong.”
- “Pupils know that dedicated staff are there to help them if they are worried about anything.”
To improve
- “For some subjects in the wider curriculum, teaching does not always focus on the essential knowledge pupils must routinely learn well.”
- “The school has not yet identified exactly what pupils should learn and in what order.”
- “This means that pupils do not build on prior knowledge securely in these areas.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 8 July 2025 (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) | 57% | 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: 46 first-preference applications, 52 offers in total, 46 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.
- St Thomas More's Catholic Primary School, Havant 0.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Bidbury Infant School 0.4 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Bidbury Junior School 0.4 mi Standards maintained
- Trosnant Infant School 0.6 mi Good Last distance published
- Trosnant Junior School 0.6 mi School remains Good
- Warren Park Primary School 1.0 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Front Lawn Primary Academy 1.0 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- St Peter's Catholic Primary School, Waterlooville 1.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published