Shipbourne School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–11 · Tonbridge, Kent
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
1.532 miles
Published by Kent County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2023–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Shipbourne School is a primary school in Tonbridge, Kent for ages 4–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 9 July 2024. Kent has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2023 to 2026 entry.
Shipbourne 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 | 1.532 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 there were 15 first-choice applications for 9 offers, 1.7 first choices per offer, the 12th highest of 426 Kent primary schools.
- For Reception 2026, 8 offers went to first-choice families, 7 first-choice families were not offered a place, and 1 offer went to a family who ranked it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 86% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), the highest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest primary schools in Kent.
- With 55 pupils on roll in January 2026, the school has 12.2 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 20.5 across the 8 nearest primary schools in Kent.
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
- Stumble Hill, Shipbourne, Tonbridge, TN11 9PB
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- Kent
- Pupils on roll
- 55 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 14.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 12.2
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 9 July 2024
Strengths
- “Shipbourne School is rightly proud of its strong sense of community.”
- “Everyone is welcomed and pupils’ views are given a high priority, so that they feel valued and well cared for.”
- “Pupils like the fact that everyone can get to know each other well in this small, friendly school and they say that everyone is kind.”
To improve
- “However, leaders have rightly identified that further work is needed to ensure that pupils retain prior learning and to enable them to use what they know to make comparisons and connections between different historical periods.”
- “However, sometimes the work set is too hard for some pupils and they struggle as a result.”
- “Leaders know that adapting the curriculum to support learning is an area which requires further development.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 9 September 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) | 86% | 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: 15 first-preference applications, 9 offers in total, 8 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.
- Plaxtol Primary School 1.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Margaret Clitherow Catholic Primary School 1.9 mi Good Last distance published
- St Lawrence Church of England Primary School 2.1 mi Good Last distance published
- Cage Green Primary School 2.2 mi Good Last distance published
- Woodlands Primary School 2.2 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Long Mead Community Primary School 2.2 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Hildenborough Church of England Primary School 2.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Stocks Green Primary School 2.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published