Mount Pleasant Infants
Derby Road, Southampton, SO14 0DY
- Phase
- Primary
- School type
- Foundation school
- Ages
- 3 to 7
- Gender
- Mixed
- Trust
- Aspire Community Trust
- Headteacher
- Mrs Emma Kerrigan-Draper
- Nursery provision
- Has Nursery Classes
- Constituency
- Southampton Test
- Setting
- Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
- Capacity
- 350
- Pupils on roll
- 315
- URN
- 116093
- Local authority
- Southampton
- Website
- School website
- Telephone
- 02380630522
About this school
Mount Pleasant Infants is a foundation primary school in Southampton. It teaches children aged 3 to 7 and has 315 pupils on roll.
Ofsted has inspected Mount Pleasant Infants, and its latest judgement is set out below. Where the Department for Education has published them, its results and pupil characteristics appear below. Numbers and a report only go so far, so visit in person before you apply.
Ofsted judgement
Ofsted did not give an overall grade. Between September 2024 and September 2025 inspections graded each area of a school's work without a single overall judgement, ahead of the move to report cards. How Ofsted report cards work
- Quality of education
- Outstanding
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Outstanding
- Personal development
- Outstanding
- Leadership and management
- Outstanding
- Early years
- Outstanding
- Safeguarding
- Effective
Trends over time
How Mount Pleasant Infants has moved over recent years against the local and national picture. Every figure is shown in the table beneath its chart.
| Year | This school | England average |
|---|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 7.7% | 6.8% |
| 2023/24 | 7.7% | 6.6% |
| 2024/25 | 8.3% | 6.2% |
Department for Education pupil absence data.
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 284 |
| 2023/24 | 283 |
| 2024/25 | 311 |
School census, spring count each academic year.
How Mount Pleasant Infants compares
Its absence rate was lower than 15% of England schools in 2024/25.
| School | KS2 RWM (2024/25) | Absence | FSM (6 years) | Pupils | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | — | 8.3% | 26.5% | 315 | — |
| Mount Pleasant Juniors | 47% | 7.1% | 43.2% | 334 | 0.1 miles |
| Bevois Town Primary School | 53% | 4.6% | 42.9% | 410 | 0.4 miles |
| St Mary's Church of England Primary School & Nursery | 56% | 6.3% | 46.8% | 624 | 0.6 miles |
| Bitterne Manor Primary and Nursery School | 47% | 5.8% | 33.3% | 224 | 0.7 miles |
| Banister Primary School | 67% | 4.9% | 33.5% | 417 | 0.7 miles |
Results reflect each school's cohort as much as its teaching, and free school meals share is context, not a judgement. Small gaps between neighbouring schools are rarely meaningful on their own.
School context
From the 2024/25 school census and absence figures.
- Free school meals (last 6 years)
- 26.5%
- English as an additional language
- 97.1%
- Overall absence
- 8.3%
- Persistent absence
- 32.94%
Location
Nearby schools
-
Mount Pleasant Juniors0.1 miles
Primary · Southampton
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Bevois Town Primary School0.4 miles
Primary · Southampton
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St Mary's Church of England Primary School & Nursery0.6 miles
Primary · Southampton
-
Bitterne Manor Primary and Nursery School0.7 miles
Primary · Southampton
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Banister Primary School0.7 miles
Primary · Southampton
Other schools in Southampton
- Abbotswood Junior School Primary
- Banister Primary School Primary
- Bartley Church of England Junior School Primary
- Bassett Green Primary School Primary
- Beechwood Junior School Primary
- Berrywood Primary School Primary
- Bevois Town Primary School Primary
- Bishop's Waltham Junior School Primary
- Bishops Waltham Infant School Primary
- Bitterne Church of England Primary School Primary
- Bitterne Manor Primary and Nursery School Primary
- Bitterne Park Primary & Nursery School - Part of the Learning Federation Partnership of Schools Primary
Common questions
- What ages does Mount Pleasant Infants teach?
- Mount Pleasant Infants teaches children aged 3 to 7. It is a primary school in Southampton.
- Who is the headteacher of Mount Pleasant Infants?
- The headteacher of Mount Pleasant Infants is Mrs Emma Kerrigan-Draper, as recorded in the Department for Education's register of schools.
- Has Mount Pleasant Infants been inspected?
- Ofsted has inspected Mount Pleasant Infants, and its latest judgement is set out in the inspection section on this page, with the framework and the date it was made.
- How many pupils are at Mount Pleasant Infants?
- Mount Pleasant Infants has 315 pupils on roll, teaching children aged 3 to 7.
- Is Mount Pleasant Infants full?
- Mount Pleasant Infants has capacity for 350 pupils and 315 on roll (90%), so it has space against its published capacity. Places are allocated through the local authority's admissions process, so capacity alone does not tell you whether a place is available.
- Is Mount Pleasant Infants a faith school?
- No. Mount Pleasant Infants has no designated religious character.
- Does Mount Pleasant Infants have a nursery?
- Yes. The schools register records Mount Pleasant Infants as having nursery classes.
- Is Mount Pleasant Infants part of an academy trust?
- Mount Pleasant Infants is part of Aspire Community Trust. Schools in a trust or federation share leadership and governance, but each keeps its own inspection record and results.
- What is Mount Pleasant Infants's absence rate?
- Mount Pleasant Infants's overall absence rate is 8.3% in the latest published census, above the England average of 6.2%.
- Does Mount Pleasant Infants publish exam results?
- OfferDay shows exam results for a school only where the Department for Education has published them, and none are shown for Mount Pleasant Infants. That is usual for infant, nursery, special and independent schools, and for schools without recent published results.
School details come from the Department for Education's Get Information About Schools register. Inspection outcomes come from Ofsted, and exam results from the Department for Education's school performance service. This page was last updated on 30 June 2026.