Canterbury Road Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–11 · Sittingbourne, Kent
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.395 miles
Published by Kent County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2023–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Canterbury Road Primary School is a primary school in Sittingbourne, Kent for ages 4–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 6 March 2024. Kent has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2023 to 2026 entry.
Canterbury 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 | 0.395 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 0.395 miles away, 22nd shortest of the 434 Kent primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance.
- Reception 2026 drew 37 first-choice applications for 30 offers; 27 offers went to first-choice families, and 10 first-choice families (27%) were not offered a place.
- The 2026 Reception last distance was nearer than in 2025 but further than in 2023, with the sharpest swing between 2023 and 2025.
- In 2024/25, 67% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 0% 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
- School Road, Sittingbourne, ME10 4SE
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- Kent
- Pupils on roll
- 209 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 34.9% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 22.5
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 6 March 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils at this school are happy, confident and polite.”
- “They enjoy positive relationships with staff and know what to do if they have any concerns.”
- “One parent, reflecting the views of many others, summed up the school as being like ‘a family’.”
To improve
- “However, at times, teachers do not check what pupils have learned carefully enough.”
- “This means that some pupils are not making as much progress through the curriculum as they could be, including some pupils with SEND.”
- “Some pupils are not achieving as highly as they could.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 26 April 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) | 67% | 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: 37 first-preference applications, 30 offers in total, 27 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.
- South Avenue Primary School 0.2 mi Good Last distance published
- Lansdowne Primary School 0.5 mi Good Last distance published
- Sunny Bank Primary School 0.5 mi Good Last distance published
- Bapchild and Tonge Church of England Primary School and Nursery 0.8 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- St Peter's Catholic Primary School 1.1 mi Good Last distance published
- The Oaks Infant School 1.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Minterne Junior School 1.1 mi No Ofsted grade
- Milton Court Primary Academy 1.2 mi Standards maintained Last distance published