Ludlow Infant Academy
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 4–7 · Southampton
Last distance offered · Reception 2023
Every applicant was offered a place
From Southampton City Council · offers on 17 April 2023
2017–2022 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Ludlow Infant Academy is a primary school in Southampton for ages 4–7 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 20 March 2024. Southampton has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2017 to 2023 entry.
Ludlow Infant Academy 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 2023 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| Reception 2022 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2019 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2017 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- Every applicant for Reception in 2023 was offered a place, as at 2 of the 7 other Southampton primary schools with a published Reception 2023 outcome.
- In 2019 and 2022, by contrast, Reception places ran out and a last distance offered was published.
- For Reception 2026 there were 57 first-choice applications for 61 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 4 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- 38.5% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 26.3% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Southampton.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Southampton schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Ludlow Road, Woolston, Southampton, SO19 2EU
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–7
- Council
- Southampton
- Pupils on roll
- 231 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 38.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 20.4
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 20 March 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils are put at the heart of this school, where leaders insist on getting it right for every child.”
- “The school’s values of ‘learn, inspire, achieve’ are central to everything the school does.”
- “They enjoy the work they do because it is interesting and challenges them.”
To improve
- “However, in some lessons, the activities selected by staff do not always help pupils learn the intended knowledge as well as they could.”
- “As a result, some pupils do not always use the correct key vocabulary across the full curriculum.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 16 May 2024 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 57 first-preference applications, 61 offers in total, 57 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 Southampton.
- Ludlow Junior School 0.1 mi Not judged
- St Patrick's Catholic Primary School 0.2 mi Improved significantly Last distance published
- Woolston Infant School 0.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Sholing Infant School 0.6 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St Monica Primary School 0.7 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Sholing Junior School 0.7 mi Good
- Weston Park Primary School 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Bitterne Church of England Primary School 1.0 mi Not judged Last distance published