Shirley Infant School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 4–7 · Southampton
Last distance offered · Reception 2024
1.451 miles
Published by Southampton City Council · offers on 16 April 2024
2017–2023 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Shirley Infant School is a primary school in Southampton for ages 4–7 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Not judged, from the inspection on 11 March 2025. Southampton has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2017 to 2024 entry.
Shirley 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 2024 | 1.451 mi |
| Reception 2023 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2022 | 🔒 With a pass |
| 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
- The Reception 2024 last distance offered was 1.451 miles, the 4th shortest of 8 Southampton primary schools with a published Reception 2024 last distance (middle figure 1.76 miles).
- The Reception last distance swung sharply, most of all from 2023 to 2024, and the 2024 figure was the longest of the 5 years with a published distance.
- Reception entry in 2026 saw 83 first-choice applications for 85 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 2 offers went to families ranking it second or lower.
- Free school meal eligibility is 9% of pupils, against a middle figure of 26.4% 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
- Wilton Road, Southampton, SO15 5LA
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–7
- Council
- Southampton
- Pupils on roll
- 266 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 9% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 20.2
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Not judged Inspected 11 March 2025
Strengths
- “This is a caring and welcoming school which focuses on making sure everyone is included in all aspects of school life.”
- “Pupils thrive in this nurturing and supportive environment.”
- “The school is ambitious for pupils.”
To improve
- “Sometimes, however, staff do not effectively check that pupils have understood learning within lessons.”
- “As a result, pupils sometimes have gaps in their knowledge.”
- “However, staff do not make the most of every opportunity to build children’s communication and vocabulary skills as well as they could.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 30 April 2025 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 83 first-preference applications, 85 offers in total, 83 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.
- Shirley Junior School 0.0 mi School remains Good
- Wordsworth Primary and Nursery School 0.4 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Hollybrook Junior School 0.5 mi School remains Good
- Hollybrook Infant School 0.5 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Shirley Warren Primary & Nursery School 0.6 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Foundry Lane Primary School 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Banister Primary School 1.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Springhill Catholic Primary School 1.1 mi Outstanding Last distance published