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South View Infant and Nursery School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 3–7 · Community school
Off Shooters Way, Basingstoke RG21 5LL · southview-fed.hants.sch.uk · 01256 321928
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Overview
- Ofsted
- Concerns
- Ungraded inspection · Jun 2024
- 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
- 211
- 87% of 242 places
- Local authority
- Hampshire
- Nursery class
- Yes
- Free school meals
- 34.2%
- First language not English
- 30.8%
- 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, 51 families put the school first and 51 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 | 51 | 51 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 53 | 46 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 55 | 50 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 58 | 65 | 1.1▲ | 89% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 61 | 52 | 0.9 | 100% |
Ofsted
At an ungraded inspection on 5 June 2024, Ofsted’s outcome for South View Infant and Nursery School was: School remains Good (Concerns) - S5 Next.
- Outcome
- Concerns
- Inspected
- 4 Jun 2024
- Ungraded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Previously: Good, graded inspection, Nov 2018
Earlier inspections
Before September 2019
Nov 2018Good
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 Sept 2014Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good Early years Good Jul 2011Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good Early years Good
What parents said
90% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (21 replies, to 7 April 2025).
- Recommend
- 90%
- Replies
- 21
- 9% · 7 Apr 2025
based on the 71% who raised concerns
based on the 38% who had a child bullied