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Padnell Infant School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 4–7 · Community school
Padnell Avenue, Cowplain, Waterlooville PO8 8DS · padnell-inf.hants.sch.uk · 023 9226 3784
Overview
- Ofsted
- Remains Good
- Ungraded inspection · Mar 2023
- 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
- 266
- 99% of 270 places
- Local authority
- Hampshire
- Nursery class
- No
- Free school meals
- 9.4%
- First language not English
- 4.1%
- 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, 76 families put the school first and 86 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 | 86 | 76 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 84 | 72 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 86 | 78 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 90 | 84 | 0.9 | 99% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 84 | 83 | 1 | 100% |
Ofsted
At an ungraded inspection on 29 March 2023, Ofsted’s outcome for Padnell Infant School was: School remains Good.
- Outcome
- Remains Good
- Inspected
- 28 Mar 2023
- Ungraded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Previously: Good, graded inspection, Jul 2013
Earlier inspections
Before September 2019
Nov 2017Monitoring visit
Safeguarding Effective Jul 2013Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good Jul 2009Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good Early years Requires improvement
What parents said
98% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (46 replies, to 6 April 2026).
- Recommend
- 98%
- Replies
- 46
- 17% · 6 Apr 2026
based on the 76% who raised concerns
based on 2 parents (4%) whose child was bullied
based on 7 parents (15%) with SEND