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Copythorne CofE Infant School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 4–7 · Voluntary controlled
Romsey Road, Copythorne, Southampton SO40 2PB · copythorne.hants.sch.uk · 023 8081 3340
On the mapSearch near SO40 2PB
Overview
- Ofsted
- Report card
- Apr 2026 · graded by area, with no overall grade
- 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
- 71
- 79% of 90 places
- Local authority
- Hampshire
- Nursery class
- No
- Free school meals
- 7%
- First language not English
- 0%
- 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, 23 families put the school first and 24 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 | 24 | 23 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 25 | 20 | 0.8 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 20 | 20 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 18 | 18 | 1 | 94% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 30 | 31 | 1▲ | 97% |
Ofsted
Ofsted inspected Copythorne CofE Infant School on 21 April 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
- 21 Apr 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 2021
Earlier inspections
September 2019 to November 2025
Jun 2021Ungraded inspectionRemains Good
Safeguarding Effective
Before September 2019
Nov 2011Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good Early years Good Mar 2009Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good Early years Good
What parents said
88% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (48 replies, to 4 April 2022).
- Recommend
- 88%
- Replies
- 48
- 53% · 4 Apr 2022
based on the 65% who raised concerns
based on the 21% who had a child bullied