Ethelbert Road Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–11 · Faversham, Kent
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.494 miles
Published by Kent County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2023–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Ethelbert Road Primary School is a primary school in Faversham, Kent for ages 4–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Not judged, from the inspection on 1 October 2024. Kent has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2023 to 2026 entry.
Ethelbert Road 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 | 0.494 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 0.494 miles away, the 40th shortest of 434 Kent primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance.
- The Reception last distance swung sharply between some years; the 2026 figure was further than in 2025, further than in 2023 and the longest of the 4 years.
- Reception 2026 had 28 first-choice applications for 30 offers: 22 offers went to first-choice families, and 6 first-choice families (21%) were not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 79% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 14% 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
- Ethelbert Road, Faversham, ME13 8SQ
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- Kent
- Pupils on roll
- 209 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 4.3% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 20.9
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Not judged Inspected 1 October 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils are rightly very proud of their school and their achievements.”
- “They enjoy coming to this welcoming and friendly school and appreciate all aspects of school life.”
- “A group of pupils agreed that the school ‘brightens your horizons’.”
To improve
- “On occasion, however, in some curriculum subjects, the focus for learning in lessons is not as clear as it could be.”
- “As a result, pupils sometimes lack clarity about what they are learning in a specific subject, or what they have learned in the past.”
- “A few parents commented that they would appreciate even more opportunities to communicate and work with the school.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 11 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) | 79% | 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: 28 first-preference applications, 30 offers in total, 22 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.
- Ospringe Church of England Primary School 0.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Mary of Charity CofE (Aided) Primary School 0.7 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Bysing Wood Primary School 0.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Davington Primary School 0.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Luddenham School 1.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Sheldwich Primary School 2.6 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Graveney Primary School 2.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Boughton-under-Blean and Dunkirk Primary School 3.1 mi Standards maintained Last distance published