Padnell Infant School

Community school·Infant school Waterlooville, Hampshire·PO8 8DS

School type

Infant school

Ages 4–7

Key Stage 2 performance

Padnell 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%

76 first choices, 86 places

First choices per place

0.88

fewer first choices than places

Applications naming the school

152

any preference, for 86 places

First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.03

00.511.5

1 per place

0.9920220.9320230.9120240.8620250.882026

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

Every child who put Padnell 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).

School profile

Age range: 4–7
Pupils on roll: 269
Gender: Mixed
Religious character: None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6

12.6%

Typical primary: 21.5%

% EAL

4.8%

Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support

7.8%

Typical primary: 14.3%

% with an EHC plan

2.2%

Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence

4.0%

Typical primary: 5.3%

Persistently absent

3.9%

Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher

21.3

Typical primary: 20.7

Spend per pupil

£6,044

Typical primary: £6,960

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

Nearby primary schools

Padnell Junior School Waterlooville · 0.1 mi 51.5 Queen's Inclosure Primary School Waterlooville · 0.5 mi 41.6 Hart Plain Junior School Waterlooville · 0.8 mi 35.2 Woodcroft Primary Waterlooville · 0.8 mi 33.5 Springwood Junior School Waterlooville · 1.4 mi 38.1 Warren Park Primary School Havant · 1.5 mi 46.5 Horndean Church of England Junior School Waterlooville · 1.5 mi 39.8 Mill Hill Primary School Waterlooville · 1.7 mi 36.1

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

Padnell Infant School at a glance

Located in Waterlooville, Hampshire, Padnell Infant School is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a community school. The school educates roughly 269 pupils aged 4 to 7.

Getting a place is straightforward: for the September 2026 intake every family who made Padnell Infant School their first choice was offered one of its 86 Reception places. Overall pupil absence was 4.0%. There are about 21.3 pupils per teacher. Padnell Infant School does not currently have a recent graded Ofsted judgement on record (often the case for newer or recently converted schools), so it is worth asking when its next inspection is expected. 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.