King's Academy College Park (Infant)

About King's Academy College Park (Infant)

King's Academy College Park (Infant) was rated Good overall in its most recent Ofsted inspection in 2023, a change from its previous Outstanding rating in 2011. The inspection gave Good marks across the board, including for quality of education, behaviour and attitudes, personal development, and leadership and management. For an infant school that only covers Reception to Year 2, the most telling academic metric is the Early Years Foundation Stage profile, and here the school's early years provision was also rated Good. While the school does not publish Key Stage 2 results because its pupils move on at age seven, its Good Ofsted rating places it in the majority of Portsmouth primary schools — the local authority has no Outstanding primaries among its 45 state schools, so Good is the top available grade in the area.

The school's 2023 inspection noted that pupils achieve well in reading, writing and mathematics, with a particular strength in early phonics. Although exact SATs data isn't available for this age range, the Ofsted report highlighted that children in Reception make strong progress from their starting points. The school serves a relatively diverse intake, with 15.7 per cent of pupils eligible for free school meals, slightly above the national average. With 343 pupils on roll against a capacity of 360, the school is nearly full but not oversubscribed to the point of being inaccessible — it received 194 applications for 81 places in the 2025/26 admissions round, with 80 of those coming as first preferences, giving a healthy oversubscription ratio of 2.4.

The school offers a solid range of facilities for an infant setting, including a sports hall, playing fields, music rooms, a library, an ICT suite and a chapel. Sports provision covers football, cross country, athletics, tennis, gymnastics, cricket and netball, while clubs include choir, chess, film club, book club and eco club. SEND support is well-documented, with provisions for specific learning difficulties including dyslexia, moderate learning difficulty, speech, language and communication needs, visual impairment, physical disability and other difficulties. This is a school that suits families looking for a well-regarded state infant option in Portsmouth, particularly those who value a broad extracurricular offer and strong SEND support from the earliest years.

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