High Down Infant School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 3–7 · Portishead, North Somerset
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From North Somerset Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2015–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
High Down Infant School is a primary school in Portishead, North Somerset for ages 3–7 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 9 November 2022. North Somerset has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2015 to 2026 entry.
High Down 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 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 |
And 4 earlier figures.
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- Every Reception 2026 applicant was offered a place, as at 43 of the 59 other North Somerset primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome.
- Places ran out in 5 of the 11 earlier Reception years, and the last distance offered swung sharply, with the biggest move from 2020 to 2021.
- Reception 2026 drew 40 first-choice applications for 40 offers, 1.0 first choices per offer, the 11th highest of 59 North Somerset primary schools.
- Of pupils here, 4.5% are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 9.2% across the 8 nearest primary schools in North Somerset.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other North Somerset schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Down Road, Portishead, BS20 6DY
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–7
- Council
- North Somerset
- Pupils on roll
- 198 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 4.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 25
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 9 November 2022
Strengths
- “Pupils enjoy coming to this inclusive and welcoming school.”
- “They describe the school as a fun place to learn.”
- “Pupils understand how the school’s ‘learnasaurs’ help them to listen, ask questions and persevere.”
To improve
- “However, in some foundation subjects, curriculum leaders are unclear about the learning that takes place in early years.”
- “This means that, in these subjects, the curriculum in key stage 1 does not build on what pupils have learned before.”
- “However, they are less confident when discussing fundamental British values, such as democracy.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 13 January 2023 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 40 first-preference applications, 40 offers in total, 40 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 North Somerset.
- High Down Junior School 0.0 mi Standards maintained
- St Peter's Church of England Primary School 0.9 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- St Joseph's Catholic Primary School 1.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Portishead Primary School 1.2 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Trinity Anglican-Methodist Primary School 1.5 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Tickenham Church of England Primary School 2.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Kingshill Church School 3.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Mary's Church of England Primary School, Portbury 3.1 mi Not judged Last distance published