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Stamshaw Infant Academy
Primary · Mixed · Ages 4–7 · Academy
North End Avenue, Portsmouth PO2 8NW · stamshawinfant.chimat.uk · 023 9266 1192
Overview
- Ofsted
- Remains Good
- Ungraded inspection · Sept 2023
- Last distance offered
- No limit
- Reception, September 2026 entry · Portsmouth Council
- Demand for places
- 1.0
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 262
- 97% of 270 places
- Local authority
- Portsmouth
- Nursery class
- No
- Free school meals
- 28.6%
- First language not English
- 25.6%
- 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, 77 families put the school first and 79 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 | 79 | 77 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 90 | 101 | 1.1▲ | 88% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 90 | 87 | 1 | 99% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 81 | 79 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 67 | 59 | 0.9 | 100% |
Ofsted
At an ungraded inspection on 20 September 2023, Ofsted’s outcome for Stamshaw Infant Academy was: School remains Good.
- Outcome
- Remains Good
- Inspected
- 19 Sept 2023
- Ungraded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Previously: Remains Good, ungraded inspection, Nov 2018
Earlier inspections
Including inspections of the predecessor school (URN 116211), which Ofsted links to this one.
Before September 2019
Nov 2018Ungraded inspectionRemains Good
Safeguarding Effective Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 116211)
Dec 2014Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good Early years Good Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 116211)
Jun 2011Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good Early years Good Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 116211)
What parents said
100% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (56 replies, to 2 September 2024).
- Recommend
- 100%
- Replies
- 56
- 2 Sept 2024
based on the 48% who raised concerns
based on the 11% who had a child bullied