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Meon Infant School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 4–7 · Academy
Shelford Road, Milton, Southsea PO4 8NT · meonwayfederation.org.uk · 033 3360 2170
Overview
- Ofsted
- No overall grade
- 2019 framework · inspected Jul 2025
- 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
- 133
- 74% of 180 places
- Local authority
- Portsmouth
- Nursery class
- No
- Free school meals
- 33.8%
- First language not English
- 9.8%
- 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, 35 families put the school first and 39 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 | 39 | 35 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 37 | 34 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 37 | 29 | 0.8 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 54 | 50 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 60 | 65 | 1.1▲ | 91% |
Ofsted
Ofsted inspected Meon Infant School on 8 July 2025 under its 2019 framework. Inspections from September 2024 give no overall grade.
- Overall
- No overall grade
- Inspected
- 8 Jul 2025
- Graded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Graded areas
| Quality of education | Good |
|---|---|
| Behaviour and attitudes | Good |
| Personal development | Good |
| Leadership and management | Good |
| Early years | Good |
Previously: Requires improvement, graded inspection, Nov 2022
Earlier inspections
Including inspections of the predecessor school (URN 116189), which Ofsted links to this one.
September 2019 to November 2025
Nov 2022Requires improvement
Quality of education Requires improvement Behaviour and attitudes Good Personal development Good Leadership and management Requires improvement Early years Requires improvement Safeguarding Effective
Before September 2019
May 2009Outstanding
Outcomes for pupils Outstanding Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Outstanding Leadership and management Outstanding Early years Outstanding Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 116189)
Jun 2006Outstanding
Outcomes for pupils Outstanding Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Outstanding Leadership and management Outstanding Early years Outstanding Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 116189)
What parents said
59% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (34 replies, to 1 September 2025).
- Recommend
- 59%
- Replies
- 34
- 22% · 1 Sept 2025
based on the 79% who raised concerns
based on the 38% who had a child bullied