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Portway Infant School

PrimaryAges 5–7Community

Andover, SP10 3PE · Hampshire local authority

Andover’s School Grade D better than 11% of towns in England

Getting in
86/128
first choices offered a place, 2026 (England: 93%)
How full
270 pupils
100% of its 270 places
Free school meals
12%
12 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about Portway Infant School

  • No letter for this school: the reason is below.
  • 12% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (fewer than England’s 25%)
  • Ofsted: Outstanding, May 2024 (shown, not graded)
  • 67% of families who put it first got a place for September 2026 (86 of 128)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (SP10 3) sold for a median £300,000; Andover’s is £295,000
Getting in

How hard is it to get a place at Portway Infant School?

67% of the families who put it first got a place for September 2026.

128
families put it first for September 2026
87
places offered
67%
of first choices offered a place (England’s primaries: 93%)
First choices and places, by year of entry
20192020202120222023202420252026
Families who put it firstPlaces offered
Red figures: first choices not offered a place

Years when some first choices missed out: 2019 (31), 2020 (41), 2021 (15), 2022 (29), 2023 (40), 2024 (11), 2025 (31), 2026 (42). The council runs the coordinated admissions; each school’s rules (siblings, distance, faith) decide who gets in. DfE doesn’t publish the furthest distance offered, so check the council’s admissions booklet for that. Hampshire council sets the admissions rules. Apply through Hampshire council’s coordinated admissions.

Demand for primary schools in Andover, September 2026

Outline = places offered · green = families who put it first · striped = more first choices than places

Portway Infant
1.47 per place
67% got their first choice
1.20 per place
75% got their first choice
1.16 per place
81% got their first choice
0.97 per place
86% got their first choice
0.93 per place
100% got their first choice
0.91 per place
100% got their first choice
0.85 per place
97% got their first choice
0.84 per place
100% got their first choice
0.83 per place
100% got their first choice
0.73 per place
100% got their first choice

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

270 pupils. SEN support is extra help in school for a special educational need; an EHC plan is the council’s legal plan for pupils who need more.

SEN support
8.2%England 15.3%
EHC plan
8.5%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
8.9%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
13%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 49%Boys 51%
Its letter

No letter for Portway Infant School

An infant school: pupils move on at 7, before the Key Stage 2 tests at 11, so there are no results to grade.

Letters go to England’s open mainstream state schools with published Key Stage 2 or GCSE results (grammar schools included), each against the schools of its own phase.

Ofsted

Ofsted inspections

Shown, not graded: Ofsted is never part of a letter or the School Grade.

Graded inspection: Outstanding, May 2024.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Portway Infant School

For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.

Home prices in SP10 3, the school’s postcode sector

Andover property prices →
£300,000
median sale, 519 sales in 36 months · Andover £295,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£150K£200K£250K£300K£350K2010201520202025SP10 3Andover
SP10 3Andover

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£448K
Semi-detached
£324K
Terraced
£275K
Flat
£162K
SP10 3Andover

Homes in SP10 3 sell for about the same as Andover’s typical price. HM Land Registry Price Paid, standard sales. Catchments aren’t published, so the postcode sector stands in for “around the school”.

Schools within 1.6 miles

11 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNBC+DDD−B+CB−Portway Infant School
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Andover, SP10 3PE

Portway Infant School: common questions

How hard is it to get into Portway Infant School?

For September 2026, 128 families put Portway Infant School first and 86 of them were offered a place; 87 places were offered in all.

What is Portway Infant School’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection outcome is Outstanding (May 2024).

How much do houses cost near Portway Infant School?

Homes in its postcode sector, SP10 3, sold for a median £300,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (519 sales).

Sources: DfE Get Information about Schools (16 October 2026), Key Stage 2 performance tables (2023–2025, three-year average) and Key Stage 4 (2025/26, provisional); Ofsted state-funded school inspections as at 30 September 2026. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Also: DfE Key Stage 4 performance, schools data (2023/24 and 2024/25 final, 2025/26 provisional) and Key Stage 2 performance tables 2024/25 by subject; DfE school census, January 2025; DfE school-level applications and offers, September 2019 to 2026 entry; HM Land Registry Price Paid by postcode sector, 2010 to August 2026.

A school’s letter is our own summary of its published results against England’s schools of the same phase; Andover’s School Grade is a separate grade, built from the results of the schools in and around the town against other towns. Map: © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (ONS boundaries). Northern Ireland: Source: NISRA; contains Land & Property Services data and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland information, © Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Scotland: contains National Records of Scotland data, Registers of Scotland data and SEPA data, © Crown copyright / © SEPA 2025, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.