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State primary · 4 to 7 · Mixed · 160 pupils

Woolston Infant School

Florence Road, Southampton, SO19 9DB
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COULD YOUR CHILD GET IN? · RECEPTION 2027

In 2022 offers reached 0.93 miles. Enter your postcode to see where your home falls.

Bars: how far the last place offered reached each year. Check your postcode and each year turns green where a place reached your home. Source: Southampton City Council offer-day figures, 2022.

Free, no account needed. Your postcode is used for this check and not kept.
Ofsted: School remains Good · March 2024No results: infantAbout one first choice per place (2026)

Summary

The key facts, in one place
Inspection
School remains Good, March 2024
Getting in
Last offer 0.93 mi (2022)
Size
160 pupils; 58 places a year; classes of 27
Run by
Hamwic Education Trust
Type
Academy converter
Ages
4 to 7 · Mixed
Strengths, and things to check
  • Sessions missed: 4.8%, against 5.8% in Southampton.
  • Persistently absent: 12.9%, against 15.7% in Southampton.
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At a glance

Against Southampton and England
This schoolSouthamptonEnglandHover or tap a bar for the figures
Attendance and behaviour
Sessions missedHalf-day sessions missed, authorised or not, as a share of all sessions in the school year (DfE pupil absence). Lower is better.
4.8%
Better than Southampton
Persistently absentPupils who missed one session in ten or more. Lower is better.
12.9%
Better than Southampton
Suspensions per 100 pupilsSuspensions in the school year for every 100 pupils on roll. Lower is better; one or two incidents move a small school a lot.
0.0
Better than Southampton
Pupils and classes
Average class sizeAverage pupils per class, from the school census. Shown for context, not as a score.
26.7
Context
Free school mealsPupils eligible for free school meals. Context for reading the results, not a measure of the school.
26%
Context
Pupils for each teacherPupils on roll for each full-time teacher, from the school workforce census. Shown for context.
20.5
Context
Demand for places
First choices per placeFamilies who put this school first, for each Reception place in 2026 (DfE applications and offers). Above 1 means more first choices than places.
1.0
In line with Southampton
Southampton and England: DfE's own averages for results. For the rest, the middle state primary school of the same phase, from every school we hold, since DfE publishes no council figure we hold.Where these figures come from →

Overview

Getting in

  • 56 families put it first for 58 places; 50 of them got in DfE, school applications and offers · Reception 2026
  • We hold no catchment map for this school, so we can't say which addresses are inside it.

Quality

  • School remains Good Ofsted · inspected 7 March 2024
  • An infant school has no published results: its pupils sit the key stage 2 tests at the junior or primary school.

Daily life

  • Absence: 4.8% of sessions missed; 13% of pupils miss 1 in 10 or more. Schools with a similar intake: 5.3% and 13% DfE, Pupil absence in schools in England: absence rates by school level · 2024/25
  • Suspensions: 0 per 100 pupils (schools with a similar intake: 1); 0 permanent exclusions DfE, Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England: school level · 2024/25
  • Classes average 26.7 pupils; 0.0% of classes have more than 30 DfE, school workforce and pupil census · 2025/26
  • 20.5 pupils for each teacher DfE, school workforce · November 2025
  • Nearest stops, in a straight line: bus 243 m, rail 410 m DfT, NaPTAN (National Public Transport Access Nodes) · within 800 m
  • 52 police-reported road collisions within 500 m (1 fatal, 5 serious) DfT, Road safety data (STATS19): collisions and casualties, last five years · 2021 to 2025
  • Air: nitrogen dioxide 10.0 µg/m³, PM2.5 6.3 (1 km square, background level) DEFRA, Pollution Climate Mapping (PCM) 1 km background maps · 2024

Who runs it

  • Hamwic Education Trust, with 37 schools DfE, Get Information about Schools: group links · joined April 2021
  • Opened as an academy (converter) on 1 April 2021 DfE, open academies list
  • Replaced Woolston Infant School (URN 116110) DfE, Get Information about Schools: links · 1 December 2020
  • We can't compare results before and after it converted: we hold results for only one side of the date, because DfE publishes a few years at a time.

Getting in

How far offers reached

How far away the last child offered a place under the distance rule lived, as the council measures it. It changes every year with who applies: a record, not a promise. Children with a higher priority can be offered places from further away.

Reception. Distance of the last child offered a place on offer day. What the last distance means →

Offer day, year by year

EntryYearPlacesApplicationsOfferedRefusedLast distance (miles)
Reception202260—60—0.93

Source: Council offer-day figures: Southampton City Council, 2022 to 2022. A dash is a figure the council does not publish, not nought. Distances are straight lines from the school.

Applications and offers, DfE

EntryYearPlacesFirst choicesAny choiceFirst choices offered
Reception2026585613350
Reception2025494211342
Reception2024564613946
Reception2023615115451
Reception2022605617853

Source: DfE, Primary and secondary school applications and offers (school level, Open Government Licence), 2022 to 2026. Families name up to three schools, so most applications are somebody's second or third choice.

Could you get in?Enter a home or postcode: we set it against every year's last offer and this school's rules.

Results

Inspections

DateKindOutcome
7 March 2024Ungraded visitSchool remains Good

Source: Ofsted, 2024.

Daily life

Absence

YearSessions missedAuthorisedUnauthorisedPupils missing 1 in 10Pupils missing 1 in 2
2024/254.8%3.4%1.4%13%0.8%
2023/245.7%4.3%1.4%13%0.8%
2022/236.0%4.6%1.4%21%0.8%
Schools with a similar intake5.3%13%

Source: DfE, Pupil absence in schools in England: absence rates by school level, 2024-25. Similar intake: state schools of the same phase with free school meals in the same band (20-30%), the median of 3218 schools.

Suspensions and exclusions

YearSuspensions per 100 pupilsPupils suspendedSuspensionsPermanent exclusions
2024/250.00.0%00
2023/240.00.0%00
2022/230.00.0%00
Schools with a similar intake1.3

Source: DfE, Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England: school level, 2024-25.

Class sizes and staff

MeasureFigureYear
Average class size26.72025/26
Classes over 30 pupils0.0%2025/26
Pupils for each teacher20.5November 2025

Source: DfE, school workforce; school census, 2025/26.

Stops nearby

KindNearest (metres, straight line)
bus243
rail410

Source: DfT, NaPTAN (National Public Transport Access Nodes), current. A stop across a railway or main road may be a long walk. Bus frequency is not held.

Road collisions within 500 m

YearCollisions
202511
202412
20239
20229
202111

Source: DfT, Road safety data (STATS19): collisions and casualties, last five years, 2021 to 2025. 5 serious and 1 fatal in all; 9 involved a pedestrian, 10 a cyclist. Only collisions with an injury reported to police are counted.

Air quality

PollutantAnnual mean (µg/m³)Year
NO210.02024
PM109.32024
PM256.32024

Source: DEFRA, Pollution Climate Mapping (PCM) 1 km background maps. A 1 km background figure: not the air at the school gate beside a busy road.

Pupils

Who goes there

MeasureShare of pupilsYear
Eligible for free school meals26%2025/26
First language other than English23%2025/26
SEN support14%2025/26
Education, health and care plan2.5%2025/26
Girls51%2025/26

Source: DfE, schools, pupils and their characteristics; special educational needs, 2025/26.

Who runs it

Who runs it

  • Hamwic Education Trust, with 37 schools DfE, Get Information about Schools: group links · joined April 2021
  • Opened as an academy (converter) on 1 April 2021 DfE, open academies list
  • Replaced Woolston Infant School (URN 116110) DfE, Get Information about Schools: links · 1 December 2020
  • We can't compare results before and after it converted: we hold results for only one side of the date, because DfE publishes a few years at a time.

Area

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Sources

  • Council offer-day figures: Southampton City Council
  • DEFRA, Pollution Climate Mapping (PCM) 1 km background maps
  • DfE, Primary and secondary school applications and offers (school level, Open Government Licence)
  • DfE, Pupil absence in schools in England: absence rates by school level
  • DfE, Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England: school level
  • DfE, school workforce; school census
  • DfE, schools, pupils and their characteristics; special educational needs
  • DfT, NaPTAN (National Public Transport Access Nodes)
  • DfT, Road safety data (STATS19): collisions and casualties, last five years
  • Ofsted
  • School register: DfE Get Information about Schools (this school)
  • How we check these figures: How we know

More in schools in Southampton and the Southampton league table. School register: DfE Get Information about Schools, updated 17 October 2026.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Sources are named beside each figure. How we know · All sources.