Hollybrook Infant School
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
2017–2019 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Hollybrook Infant School is a primary school in Southampton for ages 4–7 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Standards maintained, from the inspection on 4 June 2025. Southampton has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2017 to 2023 entry.
Hollybrook 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 2023 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| Reception 2019 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2018 | 🔒 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
- Reception places ran out in both 2018 and 2019, but every Reception 2023 applicant was offered a place.
- Reception 2026 entry had 41 first-choice applications for 46 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 5 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- Its 0.9 first choices per offer for Reception 2026 was the 3rd lowest of 44 Southampton primary schools.
- Of its pupils, 16.9% are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 26.5% 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
- Hollybrook Infant School, Seagarth Close, Southampton, SO16 6RN
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–7
- Council
- Southampton
- Pupils on roll
- 160 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 16.9% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 20.8
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Standards maintained Inspected 4 June 2025
Strengths
- “Hollybrook Infants is an effective school.”
- “It has very high expectations for its pupils.”
- “Children get off to a great start in the early years, where they quickly settle and learn important school routines.”
To improve
- “However, occasionally, staff explanations and the activities that pupils complete do not link closely enough to the intended curriculum.”
- “When this happens, pupils do not deepen their knowledge as well as they should.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 9 July 2025 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 41 first-preference applications, 46 offers in total, 41 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.
- Hollybrook Junior School 0.0 mi School remains Good
- Shirley Infant School 0.5 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Shirley Junior School 0.5 mi School remains Good
- Wordsworth Primary and Nursery School 0.9 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Shirley Warren Primary & Nursery School 0.9 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Oakwood Primary School 0.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Highfield Church of England Primary School 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Sinclair Primary and Nursery School - Part of the Learning Federation Partnership of Schools 1.2 mi Good Last distance published