Pembury School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–11 · Tunbridge Wells, Kent
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
18.236 miles
Published by Kent County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2023–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Pembury School is a primary school in Tunbridge Wells, Kent for ages 4–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Standards maintained, from the inspection on 23 October 2024. Kent has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2023 to 2026 entry.
Pembury 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 | 18.236 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 18.236 miles away, the 19th longest of 434 Kent primary schools with a published last distance (middle figure 2.24 miles).
- The Reception last distance was further in 2026 than in 2025 and 2024, and the 2026 figure was the longest of the 3 years; it swung sharply between some years.
- 2024/25 reading, writing and maths: 67% of pupils met the expected standard (England 62%), the 3rd highest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest primary schools in Kent.
- Reception 2026 had 56 first-choice applications for 60 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 4 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
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
- Lower Green Road, Pembury, Tunbridge Wells, TN2 4EB
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- Kent
- Pupils on roll
- 400 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 13.3% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 22.8
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Standards maintained Inspected 23 October 2024
Strengths
- “With its high expectations, this school gets pupils happily involved and immersed in school life, inside and outside of the classroom.”
- “Pupils develop a keen interest, curiosity and enjoyment in their learning.”
- “Adults help them to tackle often-demanding tasks successfully.”
To improve
- “Securing further improvement alongside a reasonable staff workload is rightly an ongoing focus.”
- “However, not all staff are sufficiently skilful at gathering and using the resulting information to optimise choices about what to do next to best support pupils’ learning.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 28 November 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) | 67% | 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: 56 first-preference applications, 60 offers in total, 56 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.
- Skinners' Kent Primary School 1.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Skinners' Temple Grove 1.9 mi Some aspects not as strong Last distance published
- Capel Primary School 2.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Matthew's High Brooms Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School 2.4 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
- St James' Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School 2.6 mi Good Last distance published
- St John's Church of England Primary School 2.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Barnabas CofE VA Primary School 2.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Augustine's Catholic Primary School 2.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published