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Penbridge Infant School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 2–7 · Academy
Lincoln Road, Fratton, Portsmouth PO1 5BG · penbridgeschool.org.uk · 033 3360 2185
Overview
- Ofsted
- Remains Good
- Ungraded inspection · Sept 2022
- 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
- 207
- 87% of 238 places
- Local authority
- Portsmouth
- Nursery class
- Yes
- Free school meals
- 35.8%
- First language not English
- 27.5%
- 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, 40 families put the school first and 46 places were offered; 98% 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 | 40 | 0.9 | 98% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 54 | 47 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 60 | 52 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 48 | 46 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 64 | 60 | 0.9 | 100% |
Ofsted
At an ungraded inspection on 15 September 2022, Ofsted’s outcome for Penbridge Infant School was: School remains Good.
- Outcome
- Remains Good
- Inspected
- 14 Sept 2022
- Ungraded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Previously: Good, graded inspection, Jul 2013
Earlier inspections
Including inspections of the predecessor school (URN 116210), which Ofsted links to this one.
Before September 2019
Sept 2017Monitoring visit
Safeguarding Effective Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 116210)
Jul 2013Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 116210)
Jan 2009Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good Early years Good Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 116210)
What parents said
100% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (14 replies, to 4 September 2023).
- Recommend
- 100%
- Replies
- 14
- 7% · 4 Sept 2023
based on the 64% who raised concerns
based on the 14% who had a child bullied