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Alver Valley Infant and Nursery School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 3–7 · Community school
21 Falcon Meadows Way, Rowner, Gosport PO13 8AA · alvervalleyschools.co.uk · 023 9258 1777
On the mapSearch near PO13 8AA
Overview
- Ofsted
- Good
- 2019 framework · inspected Dec 2019
- 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
- 175
- 73% of 240 places
- Local authority
- Hampshire
- Nursery class
- Yes
- Free school meals
- 36.5%
- 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, 46 families put the school first and 47 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 | 47 | 46 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 41 | 40 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 57 | 54 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 57 | 56 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 53 | 52 | 1 | 100% |
Ofsted
Alver Valley Infant and Nursery School was judged Good at its last graded inspection, on 17 December 2019, under Ofsted’s 2019 framework. An ungraded inspection in Jan 2025 found: Standards maintained.
- Outcome
- Standards maintained
- Inspected
- 14 Jan 2025
- Ungraded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Previously: Good, graded inspection, Dec 2019
Earlier inspections
September 2019 to November 2025
Dec 2019Good
Quality of education Good Behaviour and attitudes Good Personal development Good Leadership and management Good Early years Good Safeguarding Effective
Before September 2019
May 2016Good
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 Apr 2014Requires improvement
Outcomes for pupils Requires improvement Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Requires improvement Leadership and management Requires improvement
What parents said
94% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (16 replies, to 1 September 2025).
- Recommend
- 94%
- Replies
- 16
- 8% · 1 Sept 2025
based on the 81% who raised concerns
based on the 50% who had a child bullied