The School Record

Published admissions and inspection figures for schools in England, from the DfE, Ofsted and local authorities.

Hiltingbury Infant School

URN 115980 · Primary · Community school · Hampshire

Hiltingbury Road, Eastleigh, SO53 5NP

How many families applied

Preferences expressed and offers made at Reception, as published by the Department for Education. These describe demand. They do not indicate whether any particular child would be offered a place.

In the 2025 intake, 89 families named Hiltingbury Infant School as their first preference, and the school made 89 offers.

That is 1.00 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 53% of schools admitting at Reception in England that year.

More first preferences per place than 53% of comparable schools position among schools in England admitting at Reception, 2025 intake

Little change. Across the 5 most recent years held, first preferences per place averaged 1.1 in 2021–2022 and 1.0 in 2024–2025.

Applications and offers at Reception, 12 intake years
Intake 1st preferences All preferences Offers made 1st prefs per place
2025 89 181 89 1.00
2024 88 198 88 1.00
2023 95 199 88 1.08
2022 99 201 88 1.12
2021 94 217 88 1.07
2020 100 230 88 1.14
2019 78 202 80 0.97
2018 65 168 67 0.97
2017 97 229 88 1.10
2016 109 241 88 1.24
2015 80 208 88 0.91
2014 103 199 88 1.17

“Offers made” counts the offers the school made. It is not the number of places the school had, so please do not read it as one.

Ofsted

Ofsted changed its inspection framework: the current one publishes several graded areas and no single overall grade, while the previous one published an overall effectiveness grade. Each inspection below states which framework produced it.

Ofsted inspections from 2021 to 202320212023

Ofsted graded inspection (previous framework), 12 September 2023

Overall effectiveness: Outstanding

Quality of education: Outstanding

Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding

Personal development: Outstanding

Leadership and management: Outstanding

Early years: Outstanding

Sixth form / post-16: 9

Ofsted's report for this school

Ofsted ungraded inspection, 30 September 2021

School remains Outstanding (Concerns) - S5 Next

Ofsted's report for this school

Teachers staying and leaving

These come from the School Workforce Census, which follows each teacher into the next year. The numbers count full-time jobs, so a teacher who works half the week counts as half. They are not a count of people.

Census yearTeachers (FTE) Still there a year later Moved to another state school Left state schools Left in total
2024/25 12.1 9.9 1.6 0.6 18.2%
2023/24 12.9 9.5 1.0 2.4 26.4%
2022/23 13.6 8.8 2.0 2.8 35.3%
2021/22 12.6 12.6 0.0 0.0 0.0%
2020/21 13.0 12.4 0.0 0.6 4.6%
2019/20 12.6 11.0 0.0 1.6 12.7%

This is turnover among teachers. It says nothing about the headteacher or the senior leadership team: DfE publishes leadership retention separately and we do not hold it by school.

Catchment area

Nobody publishes a catchment area map for this school that we can read. That does not mean an address is outside its area. It means we hold no map, so we cannot tell you either way.

Where it is

The 6 nearest primary schools we hold figures for, by straight-line distance from Hiltingbury Infant School.

Nearby and related

Where these figures come from

This page was made on 9 September 2026. "Retrieved" means the day we downloaded the data. It is not the day the data was written, so the figures can be about an earlier year. How we compare schools.