The School Record

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

Townhill Infant School

URN 140478 · Primary · Academy converter · Southampton

Benhams Road, Southampton, SO18 2FG

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, 28 families named Townhill Infant School as their first preference, and the school made 29 offers.

That is 0.97 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 45% of schools admitting at Reception in England that year.

More first preferences per place than 45% 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 0.95 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 28 59 29 0.97
2024 39 79 40 0.97
2023 38 62 45 0.84
2022 32 78 33 0.97
2021 47 94 51 0.92
2020 53 123 64 0.83
2019 43 91 57 0.75
2018 69 135 68 1.01
2017 63 120 86 0.73
2016 65 141 68 0.96
2015 76 149 86 0.88
2014 74 133 79 0.94

“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 202620222026

Ofsted report card (current framework), 6 May 2026

Safeguarding: Met

Inclusion: Expected standard

Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard

Achievement: Expected standard

Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard

Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard

Early years: Strong standard

Leadership and governance: Strong standard

The current framework does not award an overall grade.

Ofsted's report for this school

Ofsted graded inspection (previous framework), 27 April 2022

Overall effectiveness: Good

Quality of education: Good

Behaviour and attitudes: Good

Personal development: Good

Leadership and management: Outstanding

Early years: Outstanding

Sixth form / post-16: 9

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 8.4 5.4 0.0 3.0 35.7%
2023/24 8.6 8.6 0.0 0.0 0.0%
2022/23 8.8 8.4 0.0 0.4 4.5%
2021/22 8.6 8.6 0.0 0.0 0.0%
2020/21 10.3 7.4 1.0 1.9 28.2%
2019/20 12.3 8.9 2.0 1.4 27.6%

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 Townhill 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.