Kemsing Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 5–11 · Sevenoaks, Kent
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
8.527 miles
Published by Kent County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2023–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Kemsing Primary School is a primary school in Sevenoaks, Kent for ages 5–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 20 July 2022. Kent has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2023 to 2026 entry.
Kemsing 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 | 8.527 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
- In 2026, the last child offered a Reception place lived 8.527 miles away, the 49th longest of 434 Kent primary schools with a published last distance.
- The 2026 Reception last distance was further from the school than in 2025.
- For 2026 Reception there were 27 first-choice applications for 28 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 1 offer went to a family who ranked it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 84% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 28% 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
- West End, Kemsing, Sevenoaks, TN15 6PU
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 5–11
- Council
- Kent
- Pupils on roll
- 194 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 15.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 22.8
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 20 July 2022
Strengths
- “They say that their school feels like a family and their teachers really care.”
- “Pupils feel that school staff work hard to make their learning fun.”
- “Forest school is a highlight for many pupils.”
To improve
- “Some parents feel that prior to his arrival, the curriculum had become somewhat stagnant.”
- “When he arrived, the headteacher identified that provision for pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) was unacceptably poor and that, more broadly, the school’s curriculum needed development.”
- “Prior to the headteacher’s arrival, there had not been an inclusive culture within the school.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 30 September 2022 (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) | 84% | 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: 27 first-preference applications, 28 offers in total, 27 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.
- Seal Church of England Primary School 1.2 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Otford Primary School 1.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St John's Church of England Primary School, Sevenoaks 2.2 mi Good Last distance published
- Sevenoaks Primary School 2.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Ightham Primary School 2.6 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Lady Boswell's Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School, Sevenoaks 2.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Lawrence Church of England Primary School 2.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Shoreham Village School 2.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published