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Petersfield Infant School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 4–7 · Community school
St Peter's Road, Petersfield GU32 3HX · petersfieldinfantschool.co.uk · 01730 263048
On the mapSearch near GU32 3HX
Overview
- Ofsted
- No overall grade
- 2019 framework · inspected Jun 2025
- Last distance offered
- No limit
- Reception, September 2026 entry · Hampshire Council
- Demand for places
- 0.8
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 282
- 78% of 360 places
- Local authority
- Hampshire
- Nursery class
- No
- Free school meals
- 17%
- First language not English
- 10.3%
- 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, 54 families put the school first and 68 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 | 68 | 54 | 0.8 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 72 | 70 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 105 | 98 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 110 | 102 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 94 | 92 | 1 | 100% |
Ofsted
Ofsted inspected Petersfield Infant School on 24 June 2025 under its 2019 framework. Inspections from September 2024 give no overall grade.
- Overall
- No overall grade
- Inspected
- 24 Jun 2025
- Graded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Graded areas
| Quality of education | Good |
|---|---|
| Behaviour and attitudes | Good |
| Personal development | Good |
| Leadership and management | Good |
| Early years | Good |
Previously: Requires improvement, graded inspection, Oct 2022
Earlier inspections
September 2019 to November 2025
Oct 2022Requires improvement
Quality of education Requires improvement Behaviour and attitudes Good Personal development Good Leadership and management Good Early years Good Safeguarding Effective
Before September 2019
Nov 2008Outstanding
Outcomes for pupils Outstanding Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Outstanding Leadership and management Outstanding Early years Outstanding Oct 2005Outstanding
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good Early years Good
What parents said
96% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (113 replies, to 1 September 2025).
- Recommend
- 96%
- Replies
- 113
- 37% · 1 Sept 2025
based on the 66% who raised concerns
based on the 20% who had a child bullied