Merton Infant School

Community school·Infant school Basingstoke, Hampshire·RG24 9HB

School type

Infant school

Ages 2–7

Key Stage 2 performance

Merton Infant School is an infant school for pupils aged 2–7. 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%

36 first choices, 46 places

First choices per place

0.78

fewer first choices than places

Applications naming the school

119

any preference, for 46 places

First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.02

00.511.5

1 per place

0.8520220.9220230.9020240.7720250.782026

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

Every child who put Merton 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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Quality of education

Good

Behaviour and attitudes

Outstanding

Personal development

Outstanding

Leadership and management

Outstanding

Safeguarding effective?

Yes

Early years provision

Good

School profile

Age range: 2–7
Pupils on roll: 215
Gender: Mixed
Religious character: None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6

25.4%

Typical primary: 21.5%

% EAL

39.5%

Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support

9.3%

Typical primary: 14.3%

% with an EHC plan

5.1%

Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence

5.8%

Typical primary: 5.3%

Persistently absent

14.2%

Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher

28.4

Typical primary: 20.7

Spend per pupil

£7,971

Typical primary: £6,960

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

Nearby primary schools

Merton Junior School Basingstoke · 0.0 mi 33.4 St Bede's Catholic Primary School Basingstoke · 0.1 mi 79.8 Oakridge Junior School Basingstoke · 0.4 mi 73.4 Marnel Junior School Basingstoke · 0.7 mi 44.6 South View Junior School Basingstoke · 0.8 mi 38.7 Sherborne St John Church of England Primary School Basingstoke · 1.0 mi 46.2 Winklebury Junior School Basingstoke · 1.2 mi 48.6 Fairfields Primary School Basingstoke · 1.6 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

Merton Infant School at a glance

Located in Basingstoke, Hampshire, Merton Infant School is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a community school. The school educates roughly 215 pupils aged 2 to 7.

Merton Infant School was not oversubscribed for September 2026: all 36 families who put it first were offered a place. Overall pupil absence was 5.8%. There are about 28.4 pupils per teacher. Merton 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.