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Marlborough Infant School

PrimaryAges 4–7Community

Farnborough, GU11 2HR · Hampshire local authority

Farnborough’s School Grade C better than 27% of towns in England

Getting in
15/15
first choices offered a place, 2026 (England: 93%)
How full
81 pupils
54% of its 150 places
Free school meals
6%
6 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about Marlborough Infant School

  • No letter for this school: the reason is below.
  • Room to spare: 81 pupils for 150 places
  • 6% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (fewer than England’s 25%)
  • Ofsted: Inspected, May 2025 (shown, not graded)
  • Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026 (15 of 15)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (GU11 2) sold for a median £619,975; Farnborough’s is £370,000
Getting in

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

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

15
families put it first for September 2026
19
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
Red figures: first choices not offered a place

Years when some first choices missed out: 2023 (1). 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 Farnborough, September 2026

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

1.73 per place
58% got their first choice
1.66 per place
60% got their first choice
1.14 per place
88% got their first choice
1.03 per place
87% got their first choice
1.00 per place
97% got their first choice
0.98 per place
93% got their first choice
0.97 per place
100% got their first choice
0.88 per place
100% got their first choice
0.87 per place
100% got their first choice
Marlborough Infant
0.79 per place
100% got their first choice

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

85 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
9.4%England 15.3%
EHC plan
1.2%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
36.5%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
5.9%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 39%Boys 61%
Its letter

No letter for Marlborough 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: Good, November 2019. Ungraded inspection: Standards maintained, May 2025.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Marlborough Infant School

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

Home prices in GU11 2, the school’s postcode sector

Farnborough property prices →
£619,975
median sale, 64 sales in 36 months · Farnborough £370,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£100K£200K£300K£400K£500K£600K£700K2010201520202025GU11 2Farnborough
GU11 2Farnborough

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£639K
Flat
£203K
GU11 2Farnborough

Homes in GU11 2 sell for well over Farnborough’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

13 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNB+A−A−C−B−C+C+DBA−Marlborough Infant School
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Farnborough, GU11 2HR

Marlborough Infant School: common questions

How hard is it to get into Marlborough Infant School?

For September 2026, 15 families put Marlborough Infant School first and all of them were offered a place; 19 places were offered in all.

What is Marlborough Infant School’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection outcome is Inspected (May 2025).

How much do houses cost near Marlborough Infant School?

Homes in its postcode sector, GU11 2, sold for a median £619,975 over the 36 months to August 2026 (64 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; Farnborough’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.