Queen's Park Infant Academy

Primary · Academy converter · Ages 4–7 · Bournemouth, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole

Last distance offered · Reception 2024

Every applicant was offered a place

From Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council · offers on 16 April 2024

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Queen's Park Infant Academy is a primary school in Bournemouth, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole for ages 4–7 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 15 May 2024. Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2023 to 2024 entry.

Queen's Park 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 2024	Every applicant was offered a place
Reception 2023	🔒 With a pass

What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment

What the figures show

Reception 2026 drew 76 first-choice applications for 88 offers, 0.9 first choices per offer, the 8th lowest of 53 Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole primary schools.
Of the 2026 Reception offers, 74 went to first-choice families and 2 first-choice families (3%) were not offered a place; 14 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
In 2024, every Reception applicant was offered a place, as at 5 of the 14 other Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole primary schools with a published Reception 2024 outcome.
20.2% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 14.4% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole.

Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.

Key facts

Address: East Way, Bournemouth, BH8 9PU
Type: Academy converter
Phase: Primary
Ages: 4–7
Council: Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
Pupils on roll: 312 January 2026 school census
Free school meals: 20.2% of pupils eligible
Pupils per teacher: 21.5

Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026

Ofsted

School remains Good Inspected 15 May 2024

Strengths

“High-quality pastoral support helps pupils to learn how to make friends and be a good friend.”
“Pupils are very proud to be part of school life.”
“They study a broad curriculum and say that learning is ‘fun’.”

To improve

“In the past, it took too long for pupils to learn to decode the sounds that letters make.”
“However, some teaching does not check what pupils know within these sequences of work day by day or within lessons.”
“When this happens, teaching does not address pupils’ misconceptions swiftly enough.”

Safeguarding: Effective

Quoted from the Ofsted report published 14 June 2024 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Applications and offers

2026 Reception entry: 76 first-preference applications, 88 offers in total, 74 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 Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole.

Queen's Park Academy 0.1 mi Not judged
St. Walburga's Catholic Primary School 0.3 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
St Luke's Church of England Primary School 0.7 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
Muscliff Primary School 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
Moordown St John's Church of England Primary School 1.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published
The Epiphany School 1.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published
Winton Primary School 1.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published
Malmesbury Park Primary School 1.1 mi Good Last distance published