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Southsea Infant School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 4–7 · Community school
Collingwood Road, Southsea PO5 2SR · southsea.portsmouth.sch.uk · 023 9282 8176
Overview
- Ofsted
- Report card
- Jun 2026 · graded by area, with no overall grade
- Last distance offered
- No limit
- Reception, September 2026 entry · Portsmouth Council
- Demand for places
- 0.8
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 167
- 93% of 180 places
- Local authority
- Portsmouth
- Nursery class
- No
- Free school meals
- 17.4%
- First language not English
- 31.1%
- 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, 22 families put the school first and 29 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 | 29 | 22 | 0.8 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 48 | 34 | 0.7 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 59 | 39 | 0.7 | 97% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 55 | 50 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 41 | 40 | 1 | 100% |
Ofsted
Ofsted inspected Southsea Infant School on 23 June 2026 and published a report card: each area has its own grade, and there is no overall grade.
- Inclusion: Expected standard
- Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention
- Achievement: Needs attention
- Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard
- Personal development and well-being: Expected standard
- Early years: Expected standard
- Leadership and governance: Expected standard
- Inspected
- 23 Jun 2026
- Report card
- Safeguarding
- Met
Graded areas
| Inclusion | Expected standard |
|---|---|
| Curriculum and teaching | Needs attention |
| Achievement | Needs attention |
| Attendance and behaviour | Expected standard |
| Personal development and well-being | Expected standard |
| Early years | Expected standard |
| Leadership and governance | Expected standard |
Previously: Concerns, ungraded inspection, Jan 2024
Earlier inspections
September 2019 to November 2025
Jan 2024Ungraded inspectionConcerns
Safeguarding Effective
Before September 2019
Jun 2018Monitoring visit
Safeguarding Effective Sept 2014Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good Early years Good Sept 2009Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good Early years Good
What parents said
83% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (41 replies, to 6 January 2025).
- Recommend
- 83%
- Replies
- 41
- 23% · 6 Jan 2025
based on the 83% who raised concerns
based on the 22% who had a child bullied