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Liphook Infant School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 4–7 · Community school
Avenue Close, Liphook GU30 7QE · liphookfederation.co.uk · 01428 722036
On the mapSearch near GU30 7QE
Overview
- Ofsted
- Report card
- May 2026 · graded by area, with no overall grade
- Last distance offered
- 3.24 mi
- 5.21 km · Reception, September 2026 entry · Hampshire Council
- Demand for places
- 1.0
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 267
- 99% of 270 places
- Local authority
- Hampshire
- Nursery class
- No
- Free school meals
- 10.1%
- First language not English
- 15.4%
- School census 2025/26
The official school record (Department for Education)
Admissions
For Reception in September 2026, the last place offered on distance went to a home 3.24 mi (5.21 km) from the school. Source: Hampshire Council’s document.
For Reception in September 2026, 85 families put the school first and 89 places were offered; 92% of those families were offered a place there. Admission depends on the school’s own rules.
Demand for places
First choices against places
| Reception | Places | First choices | Per place | % offered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2026Sept 2026 | 89 | 85 | 1 | 92% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 89 | 99 | 1.1▲ | 87% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 89 | 90 | 1▲ | 96% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 87 | 82 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 87 | 73 | 0.8 | 100% |
Last distance offered
| Reception | Distance | |
|---|---|---|
| September 2026 | 3.24 mi5.21 km | |
Ofsted
Ofsted inspected Liphook Infant School on 12 May 2026 and published a report card: each area has its own grade, and there is no overall grade.
- Inclusion: Strong standard
- Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard
- Achievement: Strong standard
- Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard
- Personal development and well-being: Strong standard
- Early years: Strong standard
- Leadership and governance: Strong standard
- Inspected
- 12 May 2026
- Report card
- Safeguarding
- Met
Graded areas
| Inclusion | Strong standard |
|---|---|
| Curriculum and teaching | Strong standard |
| Achievement | Strong standard |
| Attendance and behaviour | Strong standard |
| Personal development and well-being | Strong standard |
| Early years | Strong standard |
| Leadership and governance | Strong standard |
Previously: Outstanding, graded inspection, Jun 2022
Earlier inspections
September 2019 to November 2025
Jun 2022Outstanding
Quality of education Outstanding Behaviour and attitudes Outstanding Personal development Outstanding Leadership and management Outstanding Early years Outstanding Safeguarding Effective Dec 2021Inadequate
Quality of education Good Behaviour and attitudes Outstanding Personal development Outstanding Leadership and management Inadequate Early years Good Safeguarding Not effective
Before September 2019
Oct 2018Ungraded inspectionImproving
Safeguarding Effective Nov 2014Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good Early years Good Jan 2010Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Outstanding Early years Good
What parents said
97% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (97 replies, to 5 September 2022).
- Recommend
- 97%
- Replies
- 97
- 37% · 5 Sept 2022
based on the 62% who raised concerns
based on the 14% who had a child bullied