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Winklebury Infant School

Winklebury Infant School

PrimaryAges 2–7Community

Basingstoke, RG23 8AF · Hampshire local authority

Basingstoke’s School Grade C+ better than 45% of towns in England

Photo: Sebastian Ballard · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Getting in
21/21
first choices offered a place, 2026 (England: 93%)
How full
182 pupils
91% of its 200 places
Free school meals
22%
22 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about Winklebury Infant School

  • No letter for this school: the reason is below.
  • Ofsted: Good, October 2023 (shown, not graded)
  • Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026 (21 of 21)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (RG23 8) sold for a median £330,000; Basingstoke’s is £330,000
Getting in

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

Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026.

21
families put it first for September 2026
26
places offered
100%
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

In every year shown, every family who put it first was offered a place. 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 Basingstoke, September 2026

Outline = places offered · green = families who put it first · striped = more first choices than places · the 10 most in demand

1.56 per place
64% got their first choice
1.33 per place
75% got their first choice
1.27 per place
79% got their first choice
1.23 per place
80% got their first choice
1.21 per place
78% got their first choice
1.17 per place
72% got their first choice
1.16 per place
75% got their first choice
1.15 per place
85% got their first choice
1.00 per place
100% got their first choice
Winklebury Infant
0.81 per place
100% got their first choice

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

192 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
4.2%England 15.3%
EHC plan
6.8%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
26%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
26%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 48%Boys 52%
Its letter

No letter for Winklebury 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.

Ungraded inspection: School remains Good, October 2023.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Winklebury Infant School

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

Home prices in RG23 8, the school’s postcode sector

Basingstoke property prices →
£330,000
median sale, 237 sales in 36 months · Basingstoke £330,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£150K£200K£250K£300K£350K£400K2010201520202025RG23 8Basingstoke
RG23 8Basingstoke

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£505K
Semi-detached
£380K
Terraced
£297K
Flat
£190K
RG23 8Basingstoke

Homes in RG23 8 sell for about the same as Basingstoke’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

22 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNCCA−DC+CC−C−AAC−B−AD−DBDWinklebury Infant School
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Basingstoke, RG23 8AF

Winklebury Infant School: common questions

How hard is it to get into Winklebury Infant School?

For September 2026, 21 families put Winklebury Infant School first and all of them were offered a place; 26 places were offered in all.

What is Winklebury Infant School’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection outcome is Good (October 2023).

How much do houses cost near Winklebury Infant School?

Homes in its postcode sector, RG23 8, sold for a median £330,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (237 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; Basingstoke’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.