Mereworth Community Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 5–11 · Maidstone, Kent
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
2.621 miles
Published by Kent County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2023–2025 trend 🔒
Mereworth Community Primary School is a primary school in Maidstone, Kent for ages 5–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 7 July 2022. Kent has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2023 to 2026 entry.
Mereworth Community 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 | 2.621 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 2024/25, 81% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), 2nd highest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest primary schools in Kent.
- For Reception 2026 there were 46 first-choice applications for 30 offers; 30 offers went to first-choice families, and 16 first-choice families were not offered a place.
- The last child offered a Reception place for 2026 lived 2.621 miles away, the 189th longest of 434 Kent primary schools with a published last distance; nearer than in 2025.
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
- 39 the Street, Mereworth, Mereworth Cp School, Maidstone, ME18 5ND
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 5–11
- Council
- Kent
- Pupils on roll
- 209 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 12.9% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 22.7
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 7 July 2022
Strengths
- “Pupils are happy and keen to come to school each day.”
- “They say that their teachers always make learning interesting.”
- “Many also enjoy reading stories to the school dogs, Nala and Copper.”
To improve
- “In mathematics, however, the closure of these gaps is taking longer for a small number of pupils in Years 3 to 5.”
- “While leaders have put in place additional support for these pupils, this help is not ensuring that they can catch up quickly with their classmates.”
- “This means that they do not have the mathematical knowledge and understanding to achieve as well as they could.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 29 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) | 81% | 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: 46 first-preference applications, 30 offers in total, 30 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.
- Kings Hill School Primary and Nursery 1.6 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Valley Invicta Primary School At Kings Hill 1.7 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Wateringbury Church of England Primary School 2.2 mi Not judged Last distance published
- The Discovery School 2.3 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Offham Primary School 2.6 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Hadlow Primary School 2.7 mi Not judged Last distance published
- East Peckham Primary School 2.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- West Malling Church of England Primary School and McGinty Speech and Language Srp 3.1 mi Good Last distance published