Lilliput Church of England Infant School

Primary · Academy converter · Ages 4–7 · Poole, 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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Lilliput Church of England Infant School is a primary school in Poole, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole for ages 4–7 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 3 July 2023. Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2023 to 2024 entry.

Lilliput Church of England 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	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 132 first-choice applications for 119 offers; 118 offers went to first-choice families, and 14 first-choice families (11%) were not offered a place.
Every Reception applicant was offered a place in 2024, but places ran out in 2023, the one earlier year with a published outcome.
5.5% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 25.1% 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: Lilliput Road, Parkstone, Poole, BH14 8JX
Type: Academy converter
Phase: Primary
Ages: 4–7
Religious character: Church of England
Council: Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
Pupils on roll: 343 January 2026 school census
Free school meals: 5.5% of pupils eligible
Pupils per teacher: 24.4

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

Ofsted

Good Inspected 3 July 2023

Strengths

“Lilliput is a friendly, safe and nurturing school.”
“The vision of ‘loving one another, respecting one another, serving one another’ threads its way through all aspects of school life.”
“Pupils say that this guides them to make the right choices.”

To improve

“However, in a few wider curriculum subjects, teachers do not explicitly link what pupils already know with new learning.”
“As a result, even though published outcomes in 2022 were above the national average, pupils do not deepen their knowledge sufficiently in all wider curriculum subjects.”
“However, some parents would like better communication from school leaders.”

Safeguarding: Effective

Quoted from the Ofsted report published 18 September 2023 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Applications and offers

2026 Reception entry: 132 first-preference applications, 119 offers in total, 118 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.

Baden-Powell and St Peter's Church of England Junior School 0.9 mi Standards maintained
Courthill Infant School 1.2 mi Good Last distance published
Ocean Academy Poole 1.6 mi School remains Good (Improving) - S5 Next
Heatherlands Primary School 1.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
Livingstone Road Infant School 1.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Poole 1.8 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
Livingstone Road Junior School 1.8 mi No Ofsted grade
Longfleet Church of England Primary School 1.8 mi Standards maintained Last distance published