Orchard Lea Infant School

Community school·Infant school Fareham, Hampshire·PO15 6BJ

School type

Infant school

Ages 4–7

Key Stage 2 performance

Orchard Lea 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%

24 first choices, 25 places

First choices per place

0.96

fewer first choices than places

Applications naming the school

any preference, for 25 places

First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.21

00.511.5

1 per place

0.9220220.9720230.7320240.7520250.962026

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

Every child who put Orchard Lea 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

Requires improvement

Personal development

Good

Leadership and management

Requires improvement

Safeguarding effective?

Yes

Early years provision

Requires improvement

School profile

Age range: 4–7
Pupils on roll: 132
Gender: Mixed
Religious character: None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6

28.0%

Typical primary: 21.5%

% EAL

4.5%

Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support

14.4%

Typical primary: 14.3%

% with an EHC plan

2.3%

Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence

4.6%

Typical primary: 5.3%

Persistently absent

6.4%

Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher

22.0

Typical primary: 20.7

Spend per pupil

£7,534

Typical primary: £6,960

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

Nearby primary schools

Orchard Lea Junior School Fareham · 0.0 mi 64.7 St Columba CE Primary School Fareham · 0.4 mi 52.0 Uplands Primary School Fareham · 0.6 mi 66.2 St Jude's Catholic Primary School Fareham · 0.9 mi 61.7 Wallisdean Junior School Fareham · 1.1 mi 49.0 Ranvilles Junior School Fareham · 1.1 mi 59.5 Harrison Primary School Fareham · 1.2 mi 68.8 Redlands Primary School Fareham · 1.5 mi 45.9

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

Orchard Lea Infant School is a primary school serving Fareham, Hampshire, classified by the DfE as a community school. It has 132 pupils aged 4 to 7 on roll. At its most recent graded inspection, Ofsted rated Orchard Lea Infant School 'Requires improvement'.

Orchard Lea Infant School was not oversubscribed for September 2026: all 24 families who put it first were offered a place. Overall pupil absence was 4.6%. There are about 22.0 pupils per teacher. If you are considering Orchard Lea 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.