Hampshire School Catchment Areas

Schools in Hampshire split across 424 primaries and 67 secondaries, with catchment boundaries set afresh each admissions cycle by the council's school admissions team.

Expect the tightest competition in and around Southampton and Basingstoke, where popular primaries are regularly oversubscribed and last-distance-offered figures can shrink to a few hundred metres.

Selective schools are part of the mix in Hampshire — for those, passing the admissions test comes first and catchment distance only applies as a tiebreaker.

For the exact catchment map and the previous year's last-distance-offered figure, always check Hampshire's current admissions policy before assuming your postcode is inside a school's boundary.