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Lydlynch Infant School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 4–7 · Community school
Lydlynch Road,, Totton, Southampton SO40 3DW · lydlynchinfants.co.uk · 023 8086 3188
On the mapSearch near SO40 3DW
Overview
- Ofsted
- Standards maintained
- Ungraded inspection · Nov 2024
- Last distance offered
- No limit
- Reception, September 2026 entry · Hampshire Council
- Demand for places
- 0.9
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 112
- 62% of 180 places
- Local authority
- Hampshire
- Nursery class
- No
- Free school meals
- 31.3%
- First language not English
- 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, 42 families put the school first and 48 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 | 48 | 42 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 40 | 30 | 0.8 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 35 | 34 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 33 | 32 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 50 | 49 | 1 | 100% |
Ofsted
At an ungraded inspection on 5 November 2024, Ofsted’s outcome for Lydlynch Infant School was: Standards maintained.
- Outcome
- Standards maintained
- Inspected
- 5 Nov 2024
- Ungraded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Previously: Good, graded inspection, May 2019
Earlier inspections
Before September 2019
May 2019Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Personal development, behaviour and welfare Good Leadership and management Good Early years Good Safeguarding Effective Feb 2017Requires improvement
Outcomes for pupils Requires improvement Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Requires improvement Personal development, behaviour and welfare Good Leadership and management Good Early years Good Safeguarding Effective Sept 2012Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good
What parents said
94% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (17 replies, to 1 September 2025).
- Recommend
- 94%
- Replies
- 17
- 14% · 1 Sept 2025
based on the 88% who raised concerns
based on the 12% who had a child bullied