Higham Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–11 · Rochester, Kent
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
6.004 miles
Published by Kent County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2023–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Higham Primary School is a primary school in Rochester, Kent for ages 4–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 24 January 2024. Kent has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2023 to 2026 entry.
Higham Primary School catchment area: last distance offered
Parents often call this the catchment area: it's how far from the school the last child offered a place lived. It changes every year.
| Entry | Last distance offered |
|---|---|
| Reception 2026 | 6.004 mi |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2023 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- For Reception in 2026, the last child offered a place lived 6.004 miles away, further than in 2025 and 2023: the longest of the 3 published years.
- This was the 71st longest of the 434 Kent primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance, where the middle figure was 2.24 miles.
- 28 of the 62 applications (45%) for Reception in 2026 came from families living outside Kent, and 4 offers went to them; every first-choice family was offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 57% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 3% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Kent schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- School Lane, Higham, Rochester, ME3 7JL
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- Kent
- Pupils on roll
- 210 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 11.9% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 22.3
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 24 January 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils at Higham Primary School say it is a good place to be.”
- “They feel a strong sense of belonging within their school community.”
- “Daily, pupils work hard to live up the school’s motto of ‘grow, learn, believe, achieve’.”
To improve
- “The school has not, however, fully considered what they want children to know and be able to do by the end of Reception to be prepared for Year 1 and beyond.”
- “This work is, however, at an earlier stage in a small number of subjects, including mathematics, where some teachers’ knowledge is not as fully developed.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 18 March 2024 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Exam results
| Measure | School | England |
|---|---|---|
| Key stage 2 · reading, writing and maths, expected standard (2024/25) | 57% | 62% |
Department for Education school performance data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 18 first-preference applications, 21 offers in total, 18 offers to first-preference applicants.
Department for Education, school-level applications and offers, figures on national offer day. Earlier years are in the pass.
Nearby primary schools
Straight-line distance, in Kent.
- Shorne Church of England Primary School 1.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Tymberwood Academy 3.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Westcourt Primary School 3.1 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- The Riverview Academy 3.1 mi Good Last distance published
- St John's Catholic Primary School, Gravesend 3.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Cobham Primary School 3.5 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Singlewell Primary School 3.6 mi Good Last distance published
- King's Farm Primary School 3.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published