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Hollybrook Infant School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 4–7 · Academy
Seagarth Close, Southampton SO16 6RN · hollybrookschools.co.uk · 023 8077 1528
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Overview
- Ofsted
- Good
- 2019 framework · inspected Feb 2020
- Demand for places
- 0.9
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 160
- 89% of 180 places
- Local authority
- Southampton
- Nursery class
- No
- Free school meals
- 16.9%
- First language not English
- 43.8%
- School census 2025/26
The official school record (Department for Education)
Admissions
For Reception in September 2026, 41 families put the school first and 46 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 | 46 | 41 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 48 | 41 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 56 | 52 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 57 | 48 | 0.8 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 55 | 44 | 0.8 | 100% |
Ofsted
Hollybrook Infant School was judged Good at its last graded inspection, on 4 February 2020, under Ofsted’s 2019 framework. An ungraded inspection in Jun 2025 found: Standards maintained.
- Outcome
- Standards maintained
- Inspected
- 3 Jun 2025
- Ungraded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Previously: Good, graded inspection, Feb 2020
Earlier inspections
September 2019 to November 2025
Feb 2020Good
Quality of education Good Behaviour and attitudes Good Personal development Good Leadership and management Good Early years Good Safeguarding Effective
Before September 2019
Mar 2019Ungraded inspectionImproving
Safeguarding Effective Mar 2015Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good Early years Good Nov 2009Good
Outcomes for pupils Outstanding Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good Early years Good
What parents said
97% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (35 replies, to 1 September 2025).
- Recommend
- 97%
- Replies
- 35
- 20% · 1 Sept 2025
based on the 69% who raised concerns
based on the 20% who had a child bullied