Riders Infant School

Community school·Infant school Havant, Hampshire·PO9 4RY

School type

Infant school

Ages 4–7

Key Stage 2 performance

Riders Infant School is an infant school for pupils aged 4–7. Pupils move on to a separate junior or middle school before Year 6, so the school does not enter pupils for the Key Stage 2 SATs and has no KS2 results to publish.

This applies to every infant school in England — it does not mean data is missing. Ofsted judgements and school information are shown below.

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first

100%

20 first choices, 22 places

First choices per place

0.91

fewer first choices than places

Applications naming the school

any preference, for 22 places

First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.01

00.511.5

1 per place

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Red dashed line = one first choice per place. How to read this

Every child who put Riders Infant School first was offered a place in 2026, so no distance cut-off applied: living further away did not cost a place that year.

Application figures: DfE, school level applications and offers (2026 intake).

Ofsted judgements

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Overall effectiveness

Requires improvement

Quality of education

Requires improvement

Behaviour and attitudes

Good

Personal development

Good

Leadership and management

Requires improvement

Safeguarding effective?

Yes

Early years provision

Good

School profile

Age range: 4–7
Pupils on roll: 75
Gender: Mixed
Religious character: None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6

58.7%

Typical primary: 21.5%

% EAL

0.0%

Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support

13.3%

Typical primary: 14.3%

% with an EHC plan

2.7%

Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence

9.5%

Typical primary: 5.3%

Persistently absent

38.8%

Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher

15.0

Typical primary: 20.7

Spend per pupil

£13,330

Typical primary: £6,960

“Typical” = the median primary school in England. What this means

Nearby primary schools

Riders Junior School Havant · 0.0 mi 16.2 Warren Park Primary School Havant · 0.5 mi 46.5 Barncroft Primary School Havant · 0.6 mi 39.4 Front Lawn Primary Academy Havant · 0.6 mi 53.3 Trosnant Junior School Havant · 0.7 mi 28.6 St Thomas More's Catholic Primary School, Havant Havant · 0.8 mi 45.9 Bidbury Junior School Havant · 1.0 mi 34.2 St Alban's Church of England Aided Primary School Havant · 1.0 mi 48.2

Location

Official sources

Latest Ofsted report reports.ofsted.gov.uk DfE Compare School Performance compare-school-performance.service.gov.uk GIAS school details get-information-schools.service.gov.uk

School overview

Riders Infant School is a primary school serving Havant, Hampshire, classified by the DfE as a community school. It has 75 pupils aged 4 to 7 on roll. At its most recent graded inspection, Ofsted rated Riders Infant School 'Requires improvement'.

Getting a place is straightforward: for the September 2026 intake every family who made Riders Infant School their first choice was offered one of its 22 Reception places. Overall pupil absence was 9.5%. There are about 15.0 pupils per teacher. The school serves a community with above-average levels of disadvantage: about 59% of pupils have been eligible for free school meals in the last six years, compared with roughly 24% nationally — useful context when reading the results above. If you are considering Riders Infant School, it may be worth asking how leaders have responded to Ofsted's findings and what has changed since the inspection. This overview is generated automatically from the latest published DfE performance tables and Ofsted data; figures are rounded, and you can check the originals via the official links above.