Berewood Primary School
Primary · Academy sponsor led · Ages 4–11 · Waterlooville, 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 🔒
Berewood Primary School is a primary school in Waterlooville, Hampshire for ages 4–11 (academy sponsor led). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 25 January 2023. Hampshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2019 to 2026 entry.
Berewood 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
- Reception 2026 had 34 first-choice applications for 39 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 5 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- 24.4% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 37.3% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Hampshire.
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
- Kentidge Way, Waterlooville, PO7 3BE
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- Hampshire
- Pupils on roll
- 414 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 24.4% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 20.9
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 25 January 2023
Strengths
- “Berewood Primary School is a happy and welcoming place.”
- “Pupils are proud to be part of the Berewood community.”
- “They come to school in the morning excited to learn.”
To improve
- “However, there is some variability in the teaching of phonics.”
- “Some staff are not wholly confident in how best to support pupils to learn to read as effectively as they could.”
- “However, there is some variability in how quickly teachers address pupils’ misconceptions.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 20 March 2023 (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) | 50% | 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: 34 first-preference applications, 39 offers in total, 34 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.
- Mill Hill Primary School 0.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Springwood Junior School 0.7 mi School remains Good
- Springwood Infant School 0.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Purbrook Infant School 0.7 mi Improved significantly Last distance published
- Purbrook Junior School 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade
- Newlands Primary Academy 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Hart Plain Junior School 0.9 mi Not judged
- Hart Plain Infant School 0.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published