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Hart Plain Infant School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 4–7 · Community school
Hart Plain Avenue, Cowplain, Hants PO8 8RZ · hartplaininfants.co.uk · 023 9226 2511
Overview
- Ofsted
- Remains Good
- Ungraded inspection · Apr 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
- 134
- 74% of 180 places
- Local authority
- Hampshire
- Nursery class
- No
- Free school meals
- 37.3%
- First language not English
- 8.2%
- 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, 41 families put the school first and 46 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 | 46 | 41 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 45 | 39 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 52 | 35 | 0.7 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 37 | 33 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 27 | 25 | 0.9 | 100% |
Ofsted
At an ungraded inspection on 26 April 2023, Ofsted’s outcome for Hart Plain Infant School was: School remains Good.
- Outcome
- Remains Good
- Inspected
- 26 Apr 2023
- Ungraded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Previously: Good, graded inspection, Jun 2017
Earlier inspections
Before September 2019
Jun 2017Good
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 Dec 2014Requires improvement
Outcomes for pupils Requires improvement Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Requires improvement Leadership and management Requires improvement Early years Good
What parents said
87% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (15 replies, to 1 April 2024).
- Recommend
- 87%
- Replies
- 15
- 12% · 1 Apr 2024
based on the 60% who raised concerns
based on the 20% who had a child bullied