Boorley Park
Primary · Free schools · Ages 4–11 · Botley, Hampshire
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From Hampshire County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2020–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Boorley Park is a primary school in Botley, Hampshire for ages 4–11 (free schools). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 19 September 2023. Hampshire has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2020 to 2026 entry.
Boorley Park 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 |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- Every applicant was offered a Reception place in 2026, as at 204 of the 315 other Hampshire primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome.
- Reception entry in 2026 had 50 first-choice applications for 58 offers: 0.9 first choices per offer, the 48th lowest of 320 Hampshire primary schools.
- The school has 19 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 22.3 across the 8 nearest primary schools in Hampshire.
- 23.7% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 17.9% 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
- Boorley Park Primary School, 7 Nairn Road, Boorley Park, Botley, SO32 2SH
- Type
- Free schools
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Hampshire
- Pupils on roll
- 380 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 23.7% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 19
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 19 September 2023
Strengths
- “They are very enthusiastic about learning and are happy.”
- “Pupils are respectful to adults and to each other.”
- “Strong relationships permeate throughout the school.”
To improve
- “However, a few subjects are at an earlier stage of development.”
- “In these subjects, teachers are not currently using activities that enable pupils to learn as well as they could.”
- “What pupils do not yet know or understand is not always identified precisely enough and addressed effectively.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 25 October 2023 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 50 first-preference applications, 58 offers in total, 50 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.
- Berrywood Primary School 1.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Botley Church of England Controlled Primary School 1.0 mi Good Last distance published
- Curdridge Primary School 1.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Durley Church of England Controlled Primary School 1.3 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Shamblehurst Primary School 1.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Wellstead Primary School 1.4 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Freegrounds Infant School 1.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Freegrounds Junior School 1.5 mi School remains Good