The School Record

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

Orchard Lea Infant School

URN 116224 · Primary · Community school · Hampshire

Kennedy Avenue, Fareham, PO15 6BJ

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, 27 families named Orchard Lea Infant School as their first preference, and the school made 36 offers.

That is 0.75 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 5% of schools admitting at Reception in England that year.

More first preferences per place than 5% of comparable schools position among schools in England admitting at Reception, 2025 intake

Fewer families are naming it first. Across the 5 most recent years held, first preferences per place averaged 0.92 in 2021–2022 and 0.74 in 2024–2025.

Applications and offers at Reception, 12 intake years
Intake 1st preferences All preferences Offers made 1st prefs per place
2025 27 63 36 0.75
2024 27 63 37 0.73
2023 56 88 58 0.97
2022 43 81 47 0.91
2021 55 90 60 0.92
2020 40 81 56 0.71
2019 57 111 60 0.95
2018 38 104 48 0.79
2017 52 105 57 0.91
2016 51 104 60 0.85
2015 59 95 60 0.98
2014 48 93 52 0.92

“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 2022 to 2026202220232026

Ofsted report card (current framework), 28 April 2026

Safeguarding: Met

Inclusion: Expected standard

Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard

Achievement: Expected standard

Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard

Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard

Early years: Strong standard

Leadership and governance: Expected standard

The current framework does not award an overall grade.

Ofsted's report for this school

Ofsted graded inspection (previous framework), 7 June 2023

Overall effectiveness: Requires improvement

Quality of education: Requires improvement

Behaviour and attitudes: Requires improvement

Personal development: Good

Leadership and management: Requires improvement

Early years: Requires improvement

Sixth form / post-16: 9

Ofsted's report for this school

Ofsted ungraded inspection, 26 January 2022

School remains Good (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 6.0 5.0 1.0 0.0 16.7%
2023/24 8.7 5.9 1.0 1.8 32.2%
2022/23 9.3 5.7 0.6 3.0 38.7%
2021/22 7.2 5.7 0.0 1.5 20.8%
2020/21 7.6 7.6 0.0 0.0 0.0%
2019/20 7.6 6.6 0.0 1.0 13.2%

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 Orchard Lea 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.