Hollingbourne Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–11 · Maidstone, Kent
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
2.311 miles
Published by Kent County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2023–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Hollingbourne Primary School is a primary school in Maidstone, Kent for ages 4–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 1 March 2022. Kent has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2023 to 2026 entry.
Hollingbourne 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 | 2.311 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
- The 2026 Reception last distance was nearer the school than in 2025 and 2024, and the 2026 figure was the shortest of the 3 years with a published distance.
- For Reception 2026 there were 12 first-choice applications for 12 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 53% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 7% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- Its 2024/25 reading, writing and maths result was the 3rd lowest of 8 schools: this one and the 7 of the 8 nearest primary schools in Kent that have results.
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
- Eyhorne Street, Hollingbourne, Maidstone, ME17 1UA
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- Kent
- Pupils on roll
- 96 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 24% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 16.6
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 1 March 2022
Strengths
- “Pupils are proud to belong to this welcoming school community.”
- “They develop strong relationships with adults, who know them well and help them feel safe, valued and ready to learn.”
- “Pupils say that there is always someone they can talk to if they have a worry.”
To improve
- “Outcomes in mathematics and the Year 4 multiplication tables check have been weaker than leaders expected.”
- “While some pupils do not yet secure foundational knowledge and skills as strongly as leaders intend, leaders' work to strengthen these aspects of learning is appropriate and beginning to lead to improvements in pupils' achievement.”
- “However, some pupils do not develop vocabulary, handwriting and mathematical knowledge securely enough to support future learning.”
Safeguarding: met
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 24 September 2026 (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) | 53% | 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: 12 first-preference applications, 12 offers in total, 12 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.
- Leeds and Broomfield Church of England Primary School 1.3 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Harrietsham Church of England Primary School 1.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Kingswood Primary School 2.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Thurnham Church of England Infant School 2.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Roseacre Junior School 2.9 mi Good
- Madginford Primary School 3.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Senacre Wood Primary School 3.5 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Leigh Academy Bearsted 3.5 mi Outstanding Last distance published