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Wildground Infant School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 2–7 · Community school
Crete Road, Dibden Purlieu, Southampton SO45 4JX · wildground.hants.sch.uk · 023 8084 4001
On the mapSearch near SO45 4JX
Overview
- Ofsted
- Improving
- Ungraded inspection · Sept 2023
- Last distance offered
- No limit
- Reception, September 2026 entry · Hampshire Council
- Demand for places
- 1.0
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 185
- 88% of 210 places
- Local authority
- Hampshire
- Nursery class
- Yes
- Free school meals
- 33.8%
- First language not English
- 3.8%
- School census 2025/26
The official school record (Department for Education)
Admissions
For Reception in September 2026, everyone who applied was offered a place. Source: Hampshire Council’s document.
For Reception in September 2026, 31 families put the school first and 31 places were offered; 100% of those families were offered a place there. Admission depends on the school’s own rules.
First choices against places
| Reception | Places | First choices | Per place | % offered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2026Sept 2026 | 31 | 31 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 27 | 27 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 48 | 48 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 37 | 36 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 50 | 50 | 1 | 100% |
Ofsted
At an ungraded inspection on 13 September 2023, Ofsted’s outcome for Wildground Infant School was: School remains Good (Improving) - S5 Next.
- Outcome
- Improving
- Inspected
- 12 Sept 2023
- Ungraded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Previously: Good, graded inspection, Sept 2017
Earlier inspections
Before September 2019
Sept 2017Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Personal development, behaviour and welfare Outstanding Leadership and management Outstanding Early years Outstanding Safeguarding Effective Jun 2013Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good
What parents said
100% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (25 replies, to 2 September 2024).
- Recommend
- 100%
- Replies
- 25
- 2 Sept 2024
based on the 52% who raised concerns
based on the 16% who had a child bullied