Rose Street Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–11 · Sheerness, Kent
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
5.156 miles
Published by Kent County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2023–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Rose Street Primary School is a primary school in Sheerness, Kent for ages 3–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Not judged, from the inspection on 1 July 2025. Kent has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2023 to 2026 entry.
Rose Street 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 | 5.156 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 5.156 miles away, the 95th longest of 434 Kent primary schools with a published last distance (middle figure 2.24 miles).
- The Reception 2026 last distance was further out than in 2025 and 2023, and the 2026 figure was the longest of the 3 years; distances swung sharply between some years.
- Reception 2026 had 50 first-choice applications for 50 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 51% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), the 3rd lowest of 9 schools: this one and 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
- Rose Street, Sheerness, ME12 1AW
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Kent
- Pupils on roll
- 424 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 63.7% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 20
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Not judged Inspected 1 July 2025
Strengths
- “Pupils enjoy coming to this highly inclusive school.”
- “Rose Street Primary School is an integral part of the local community.”
- “Staff have created a nurturing environment, so that pupils feel safe and well cared for.”
To improve
- “However, in some wider curriculum subjects, staff do not routinely check what pupils have remembered.”
- “As a result, pupils do not achieve as well as they could in these subjects.”
- “However, some pupils still have gaps in their knowledge of how to form letters precisely and spell words accurately.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 8 September 2025 (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) | 51% | 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: 50 first-preference applications, 50 offers in total, 50 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.
- St Edward's Catholic Primary School 0.1 mi Not judged Last distance published
- West Minster Primary School 0.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Richmond Primary School 0.6 mi Good Last distance published
- Halfway Houses Primary School 1.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Queenborough School and Nursery 1.6 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Minster in Sheppey Primary School 2.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Thistle Hill Academy 2.4 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St Georges CofE (Aided) Primary School 2.9 mi Good Last distance published