Otford Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 5–11 · Sevenoaks, Kent
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
5.613 miles
Published by Kent County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2023–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Otford 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 18 October 2023. Kent has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2023 to 2026 entry.
Otford 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 | 5.613 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 5.613 miles away, the 77th 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 entry there were 24 first-choice applications for 30 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 6 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 63% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 11% 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
- High Street, Otford, Sevenoaks, TN14 5PG
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 5–11
- Council
- Kent
- Pupils on roll
- 239 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 14.6% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 21.4
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 18 October 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils and staff embrace the school’s values of courage, kindness and curiosity.”
- “Pupils are polite and respectful.”
- “They feel safe and enjoy coming to school.”
To improve
- “A robust and clearly defined monitoring system is in place to support this, but it is not yet consistently applied across the school.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 24 November 2023 (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) | 63% | 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: 24 first-preference applications, 30 offers in total, 24 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.
- Dunton Green Primary School 1.5 mi Good Last distance published
- Shoreham Village School 1.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Kemsing Primary School 1.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Seal Church of England Primary School 1.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Sevenoaks Primary School 1.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St John's Church of England Primary School, Sevenoaks 2.2 mi Good Last distance published
- Riverhead Infants' School 2.2 mi Good Last distance published
- Amherst School 2.4 mi Good