Hadlow Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–11 · Tonbridge, Kent
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
6.329 miles
Published by Kent County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2023–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Hadlow Primary School is a primary school in Tonbridge, Kent for ages 4–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Not judged, from the inspection on 25 February 2025. Kent has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2023 to 2026 entry.
Hadlow 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 | 6.329 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 2026 the last child offered a place lived 6.329 miles from the school, the 67th longest of the 434 Kent primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance (this one included).
- The middle figure across those Kent schools was 2.24 miles, and the school's Reception last distance in 2026 was about the same as in 2025.
- For Reception 2026 there were 19 first-choice applications for 22 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place; 3 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 38% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), the lowest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest primary schools in Kent.
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
- Hadlow, Tonbridge, TN11 0EH
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- Kent
- Pupils on roll
- 187 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 36.9% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 17
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Not judged Inspected 25 February 2025
Strengths
- “The school’s motto, ‘happiness, progress, success’, threads through all aspects of school life.”
- “Pupils are proud members of their community and love school.”
- “The school has high expectations and pupils rise to these.”
To improve
- “However, in some subjects, pupils are not as confident in recalling subject-specific knowledge, including vocabulary.”
- “On occasions, they remember the activities they have completed rather than the knowledge and skills they have learned.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 3 April 2025 (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) | 38% | 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: 19 first-preference applications, 22 offers in total, 19 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.
- East Peckham Primary School 2.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Woodlands Primary School 2.0 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Cage Green Primary School 2.4 mi Good Last distance published
- Mereworth Community Primary School 2.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Shipbourne School 2.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Margaret Clitherow Catholic Primary School 2.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Plaxtol Primary School 3.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Capel Primary School 3.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published