Penbridge Infant School & Nursery

Academy converter·Infant school Portsmouth·PO1 5BG

School type

Infant school

Ages 2–7

Key Stage 2 performance

Penbridge Infant School & Nursery 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

98%

40 first choices, 46 places

First choices per place

0.87

fewer first choices than places

Applications naming the school

any preference, for 46 places

First preferences per place, last five years▶ 0.00

00.511.5

1 per place

0.9420220.9620230.8720240.8720250.872026

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

We do not have a checked cut-off distance for Penbridge Infant School & Nursery yet. Portsmouth does publish allocation figures and we are working through them council by council — we only show a distance once we have found it in the council’s own document.

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

School profile

Age range: 2–7
Pupils on roll: 207
Gender: Mixed
Religious character: None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6

28.0%

Typical primary: 21.5%

% EAL

29.5%

Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support

20.8%

Typical primary: 14.3%

% with an EHC plan

16.4%

Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence

6.7%

Typical primary: 5.3%

Persistently absent

16.1%

Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher

15.7

Typical primary: 20.7

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

Nearby primary schools

St John's Cathedral Catholic Primary School Portsmouth · 0.4 mi 69.1 Fernhurst Junior School Southsea · 0.4 mi 36.9 Ark Ayrton Primary Academy Portsmouth · 0.4 mi 56.5 Ark Dickens Primary Academy Portsmouth · 0.6 mi 43.6 Wimborne Primary School Portsmouth · 0.7 mi 34.3 Cottage Grove Primary School and Nursery Southsea · 0.8 mi 39.1 Penbridge Junior School Portsmouth · 0.8 mi 36.3 Langstone Primary Academy Portsmouth · 0.9 mi 44.7

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

Penbridge Infant School & Nursery at a glance

Located in Portsmouth, Penbridge Infant School & Nursery is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a converter academy. The school educates roughly 207 pupils aged 2 to 7.

98% of the families who made Penbridge Infant School & Nursery their first choice were offered a Reception place for September 2026, even though the school made at least as many offers as it had first choices - the rest withdrew, moved or fell outside a priority group. Overall pupil absence was 6.7%. There are about 15.7 pupils per teacher. Penbridge Infant School & Nursery 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.