Foundry Lane Primary School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 4–11 · Southampton
Last distance offered · Reception 2024
0.488 miles
Published by Southampton City Council · offers on 16 April 2024
2017–2022 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Foundry Lane Primary School is a primary school in Southampton for ages 4–11 (academy converter). Southampton has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2017 to 2024 entry.
Foundry Lane 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 2024 | 0.488 mi |
| Reception 2022 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2019 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2018 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2017 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- For Reception in 2024, the last child offered a place lived 0.488 miles away, the shortest of the 8 Southampton primary schools with a published Reception 2024 last distance.
- Reception last distances have swung sharply between some years, most of all from 2019 to 2022, and the 2024 figure was the shortest of the 5 years.
- In 2024/25, 48% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), while 12% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- For Reception in 2026 there were 42 first-choice applications for 42 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Southampton schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Foundry Lane, Shirley, Southampton, SO15 3JT
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- Southampton
- Pupils on roll
- 492 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 25.4% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 22.7
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
No Ofsted grade
Exam results
| Measure | School | England |
|---|---|---|
| Key stage 2 · reading, writing and maths, expected standard (2024/25) | 48% | 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: 42 first-preference applications, 42 offers in total, 42 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 Southampton.
- Wordsworth Primary and Nursery School 0.4 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Freemantle Church of England Community Academy 0.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Tanners Brook Primary School 0.7 mi Not judged
- Shirley Infant School 0.7 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Shirley Junior School 0.7 mi School remains Good
- Shirley Warren Primary & Nursery School 0.8 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Mason Moor Primary School, Nursery & Specialist Bases 0.9 mi No Ofsted grade
- Springhill Catholic Primary School 0.9 mi Outstanding Last distance published