The School Record

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

Bursledon Church of England Infant School

URN 116277 · Primary · Voluntary controlled school · Hampshire

Long Lane, Southampton, SO31 8BZ

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, 87 families named Bursledon Church of England Infant School as their first preference, and the school made 89 offers.

That is 0.98 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 50% of schools admitting at Reception in England that year.

More first preferences per place than 50% 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 0.96 in 2021–2022 and 0.97 in 2024–2025.

Applications and offers at Reception, 12 intake years
Intake 1st preferences All preferences Offers made 1st prefs per place
2025 87 141 89 0.98
2024 75 129 78 0.96
2023 77 137 86 0.90
2022 92 137 88 1.05
2021 76 144 86 0.88
2020 76 137 79 0.96
2019 79 137 84 0.94
2018 68 136 80 0.85
2017 76 137 83 0.92
2016 66 125 81 0.81
2015 65 134 83 0.78
2014 65 109 75 0.87

“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 ungraded inspection, 6 July 2022

School remains Good

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 9.6 6.6 1.0 2.0 31.2%
2023/24 10.1 5.6 1.0 3.5 44.6%
2022/23 11.3 7.9 2.6 0.8 30.1%
2021/22 10.1 7.1 0.0 3.0 29.7%
2020/21 11.4 8.2 1.6 1.6 28.1%
2019/20 10.8 8.8 1.0 1.0 18.5%

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 Bursledon Church of England 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.