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Devonshire Infant School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 4–7 · Community school
Francis Avenue, Southsea PO4 0AG · devonshire.portsmouth.sch.uk · 023 9273 4902
Overview
- Ofsted
- Report card
- May 2026 · graded by area, with no overall grade
- Last distance offered
- No limit
- Reception, September 2026 entry · Portsmouth Council
- Demand for places
- 0.9
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 171
- 90% of 190 places
- Local authority
- Portsmouth
- Nursery class
- No
- Free school meals
- 28.1%
- First language not English
- 30.4%
- 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: Portsmouth Council’s document.
For Reception in September 2026, 44 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 | 44 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 52 | 48 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 60 | 48 | 0.8 | 94% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 44 | 39 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 48 | 44 | 0.9 | 100% |
Ofsted
Ofsted inspected Devonshire Infant School on 19 May 2026 and published a report card: each area has its own grade, and there is no overall grade.
- Inclusion: Expected standard
- Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard
- Achievement: Expected standard
- Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard
- Personal development and well-being: Expected standard
- Early years: Expected standard
- Leadership and governance: Expected standard
- Inspected
- 19 May 2026
- Report card
- Safeguarding
- Met
Graded areas
| Inclusion | Expected standard |
|---|---|
| Curriculum and teaching | Expected standard |
| Achievement | Expected standard |
| Attendance and behaviour | Expected standard |
| Personal development and well-being | Expected standard |
| Early years | Expected standard |
| Leadership and governance | Expected standard |
Previously: Remains Good, ungraded inspection, Jun 2022
Earlier inspections
September 2019 to November 2025
Jun 2022Ungraded inspectionRemains Good
Safeguarding Effective
Before September 2019
Mar 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 Feb 2013Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good
What parents said
94% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (33 replies, to 2 April 2023).
- Recommend
- 94%
- Replies
- 33
- 18% · 2 Apr 2023
based on the 70% who raised concerns
based on the 18% who had a child bullied