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Southwood Infant School

PrimaryAges 4–7Community

Farnborough, GU14 0NE · Hampshire local authority

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

Getting in
28/28
first choices offered a place, 2026 (England: 93%)
How full
119 pupils
88% of its 135 places
Free school meals
6%
6 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about Southwood Infant School

  • No letter for this school: the reason is below.
  • 6% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (fewer than England’s 25%)
  • Ofsted: Good, April 2023 (shown, not graded)
  • Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026 (28 of 28)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (GU14 0) sold for a median £386,500; Farnborough’s is £370,000
Getting in

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

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

28
families put it first for September 2026
32
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: 2019 (5), 2023 (2). 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
Southwood Infant
0.88 per place
100% got their first choice
0.87 per place
100% got their first choice
0.85 per place
100% got their first choice

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

114 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
7.9%England 15.3%
EHC plan
2.6%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
17.5%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
5.3%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 49%Boys 51%
Its letter

No letter for Southwood 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, April 2023. Ungraded inspection: School remains Good (Improving), November 2019.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Southwood Infant School

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

Home prices in GU14 0, the school’s postcode sector

Farnborough property prices →
£386,500
median sale, 312 sales in 36 months · Farnborough £370,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£150K£200K£250K£300K£350K£400K£450K2010201520202025GU14 0Farnborough
GU14 0Farnborough

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£533K
Semi-detached
£403K
Terraced
£340K
Flat
£189K
GU14 0Farnborough

Homes in GU14 0 sell for a little 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

12 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNCB+C−BC+C+C−C−Southwood Infant School
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Farnborough, GU14 0NE

Southwood Infant School: common questions

How hard is it to get into Southwood Infant School?

For September 2026, 28 families put Southwood Infant School first and all of them were offered a place; 32 places were offered in all.

What is Southwood Infant School’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection outcome is Good (April 2023).

How much do houses cost near Southwood Infant School?

Homes in its postcode sector, GU14 0, sold for a median £386,500 over the 36 months to August 2026 (312 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.