Hambledon Primary School
Church Lane, Hambledon, Waterlooville, PO7 4RTOpen in maps (opens in a new tab)
Hambledon Primary School is a primary school in Waterlooville for ages 4 to 11. It is one of the 600 schools in Hampshire. It ranks 1st of 13 primary schools in Waterlooville. Its latest Ofsted inspection, in March 2025, graded each key judgement and gave no overall Ofsted rating.
Ofsted inspection
Inspected 18 March 2025, report published 5 May 2025
This inspection graded each key judgement and gave no overall effectiveness grade.
- Quality of education
- Good
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Good
- Personal development
- Good
- Leadership and management
- Good
- Early years provision
- Good
- Safeguarding
- Met
What Ofsted said
From the inspection on 18 March 2025
Pupils bubble over with enthusiasm about the warm welcome everyone receives at this school. Pupils enjoy school and feel safe. They overwhelmingly trust staff to help them with worries or concerns. The school aspires for all pupils to achieve their very best. Pupils enjoy learning, work hard and generally achieve well. Pupils behave well. They are polite and respectful to adults and to their peers. Pupils are highly tolerant of difference. They value diversity, stating confidently that the world would not work if everyone was the same. Pupils appreciate the wide range of activities available to them at breaktimes. However, they also enjoy days when they have no equipment out. On these days, pupils are proud that they must 'just use imagination' in their play. Contributing to the community is important to pupils at this school. Pupils relish chances to enrich others' lives, such as through teaching sign language to the church choir and by providing entertainment for a village lunch club. Pupils enjoy the wide variety of trips and visits that enhance the curriculum, such as to museums, to the theatre and to London. In addition, clubs such as cooking and football and residential visits enrich pupils' education further.
What the school should improve
- Teachers' pedagogical knowledge is not consistently strong. Sometimes, the strategies used to support pupils' learning and the work pupils complete does not enable pupils to learn as well as they could. The school should improve teachers' subject and pedagogical knowledge to enable all pupils to achieve well across the curriculum.
- Some pupils, including some of the most vulnerable, do not attend school regularly enough and are persistently absent. This means that they develop gaps in their understanding and fall behind their peers. The school needs to reduce persistent absence for all pupils, particularly the most disadvantaged.
Exam results
SATs results (key stage 2), 2024/25
13 pupils took the tests
Pupil numbers and mix
95 pupils on roll, with places for 105
Schools near Hambledon Primary School
| School | Distance | Ofsted | Results |
|---|---|---|---|
| Denmead Infant School | 2 miles | Ofsted: Good | Not published |
| Denmead Junior School | 3 miles | Ofsted: Good | 46% met the expected standard |
| Newtown Soberton Infant School | 3 miles | Ofsted judgements: Good to outstanding | Not published |
| Catherington Church of England Infant School | 3 miles | Ofsted: Good | Not published |
| Woodcroft Primary | 3 miles | Ofsted: Good | 39% met the expected standard |
School details
- School type
- Community school
- Sector
- Local authority maintained
- Age range
- 4 to 11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Nursery classes
- No
- Headteacher
- Ms Adrienne Corr
- Phone
- 02392632440
- Address
- Church Lane, Hambledon, Waterlooville, PO7 4RT
- Local authority
- Hampshire
- URN
- 115902
School details from Get Information about Schools, 17 September 2026. Ofsted outcomes published to 31 August 2026. Exam results for 2024/25 from the Department for Education. Pupil mix from the school census, 2025/26.