Westmeads Community Infant School
Primary · Community school · Ages 2–7 · Whitstable, Kent
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
2.038 miles
Published by Kent County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2023–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Westmeads Community Infant School is a primary school in Whitstable, Kent for ages 2–7 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Not judged, from the inspection on 7 January 2025. Kent has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2023 to 2026 entry.
Westmeads Community Infant 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 | 2.038 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 63 first-choice applications for 59 offers; 59 offers went to first-choice families, and 4 first-choice families were not offered a place.
- The last child offered a Reception place in 2026 lived 2.038 miles away, nearer the school than in 2025.
- Ofsted's latest outcome, on 7 January 2025, was Not judged; the previous graded outcome was Requires improvement on 17 May 2022.
- With 183 pupils on roll in January 2026, it has 19.3 pupils per teacher; the middle figure across the 8 nearest primary schools in Kent is 21.7.
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
- Cromwell Road, Whitstable, CT5 1NA
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–7
- Council
- Kent
- Pupils on roll
- 183 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 19.7% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 19.3
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Not judged Inspected 7 January 2025
Strengths
- “Pupils are eager to attend this school.”
- “Everyone is welcomed into the strong ethos of kindness.”
- “Pupils develop self-confidence, and they truly thrive.”
To improve
- “The published outcomes for the phonics screening check in Year 1 do not fully reflect the strength of pupils’ achievement.”
- “This is because some pupils learning to read from low starting points do not meet the expected phonics standard in Year 1.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 12 February 2025 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 63 first-preference applications, 59 offers in total, 59 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.
- Whitstable and Seasalter Endowed Church of England Junior School 0.2 mi School remains Outstanding
- St Alphege Church of England Infant School 0.4 mi Good Last distance published
- Whitstable Junior School 0.4 mi Standards maintained
- St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Whitstable 0.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Joy Lane Primary Foundation School 0.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Swalecliffe Community Primary School 1.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Thornden Wood Primary School 3.1 mi Good Last distance published
- Hampton Primary School 3.3 mi Not judged Last distance published