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Sholing Infant School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 4–7 · Academy
Heath Road, Sholing, Southampton SO19 2QF · sholinginfantschool.co.uk · 023 8044 7447
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Overview
- Ofsted
- No overall grade
- 2019 framework · inspected Apr 2025
- Demand for places
- 0.9
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 264
- 98% of 270 places
- Local authority
- Southampton
- Nursery class
- No
- Free school meals
- 19.3%
- First language not English
- 16.3%
- School census 2025/26
The official school record (Department for Education)
Admissions
For Reception in September 2026, 78 families put the school first and 85 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 | 85 | 78 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 80 | 79 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 83 | 80 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 90 | 107 | 1.2▲ | 82% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 89 | 114 | 1.3▲ | 75% |
Ofsted
Ofsted inspected Sholing Infant School on 1 April 2025 under its 2019 framework. Inspections from September 2024 give no overall grade.
- Overall
- No overall grade
- Inspected
- 1 Apr 2025
- Graded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Graded areas
| Quality of education | Outstanding |
|---|---|
| Behaviour and attitudes | Outstanding |
| Personal development | Outstanding |
| Leadership and management | Outstanding |
| Early years | Outstanding |
Previously: Outstanding, graded inspection, Jan 2014
Earlier inspections
Before September 2019
Jan 2014Outstanding
Outcomes for pupils Outstanding Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Outstanding Leadership and management Outstanding Jun 2009Good
Outcomes for pupils Good 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 (61 replies, to 1 September 2025).
- Recommend
- 97%
- Replies
- 61
- 23% · 1 Sept 2025
based on the 69% who raised concerns
based on the 18% who had a child bullied