Hiltingbury Infant School

About Hiltingbury Infant School

Hiltingbury Infant School sits within Hampshire, a local authority that contains 425 primary schools, of which 33 currently hold an Outstanding rating from Ofsted. Among its most highly ranked peers in the county are Preston Candover Church of England Primary School, Our Lady and St Joseph Catholic Primary School, and St Faith's Church of England Primary School. The school serves the Eastleigh area and is a state-funded, mixed-gender infant school for children aged 5 to 7, with no nursery provision or sixth form. It is led by headteacher Phillippa Longman and has a non-religious character. With 271 pupils on roll against a capacity of 270, the school is effectively full, and its intake includes a relatively low proportion of pupils eligible for free school meals at 4.4 per cent.

In its most recent Ofsted inspection, conducted in September 2023, Hiltingbury Infant School was judged Outstanding across every category: overall effectiveness, quality of education, behaviour and attitudes, personal development, leadership and management, and early years provision. This represents a continuation of its previous Outstanding rating from January 2016, where it also scored top marks in overall effectiveness, early years provision, and leadership and management. The school does not publish Key Stage 2 results because its pupils leave at age 7, before SATs are taken, so direct comparison with the Hampshire LA average of 61 per cent achieving the expected standard in reading, writing and maths is not applicable. However, the consistency of its Ofsted grades across two inspections, with no category falling below the highest mark, suggests strong and sustained performance in the early years and infant phases.

The school offers a broad set of facilities including playing fields, a sports hall, a gymnasium, art studios, music rooms, a library, and a forest school, as well as a chapel. Sports on offer include rounders, dance, cricket, football and swimming, while extracurricular clubs range from art and choir to film club, chess and drama. For pupils with additional needs, the school provides support for speech, language and communication needs, visual impairment, autistic spectrum disorder, and other difficulties or disabilities, and it operates a resourced provision. Admission data for the 2025/26 intake shows the school is oversubscribed: it received 181 applications for 89 places, with 85 offers made to first-preference applicants and 89 first-preference applications overall, giving an oversubscription ratio of 2.03. This level of demand, combined with its Outstanding rating and strong local reputation, makes it a highly sought-after option for families in Eastleigh seeking a short infant phase before moving to a junior school.

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