Aldington Primary School
Primary · Foundation school · Ages 4–11 · Ashford, Kent
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
3.255 miles
Published by Kent County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2023–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Aldington Primary School is a primary school in Ashford, Kent for ages 4–11 (foundation school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 6 February 2024. Kent has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2023 to 2026 entry.
Aldington 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 | 3.255 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
- The last child offered a Reception place for 2026 lived 3.255 miles away, the 157th longest of the 434 Kent primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance.
- The Reception last distance stayed close to the year before in every year with a published distance, and the 2026 figure was the longest of the 3 years.
- Reception 2026 had 33 first-choice applications for 30 offers: 26 offers went to first-choice families and 7 first-choice families (21%) were not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 58% 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
- Roman Road, Aldington, Ashford, TN25 7EE
- Type
- Foundation school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- Kent
- Pupils on roll
- 198 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 11.6% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 19.6
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 6 February 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils are proud to attend this school and talk eagerly about the things that make it special.”
- “They learn to love nature and the outdoors, developing character and resilience in the forest school.”
- “As one pupil put it: ‘The best things about this school are friendships and being surrounded by nature.”
To improve
- “The school is using new curriculums for some subjects and, where this is the case, staff are still getting to know precisely what knowledge and skills pupils must learn.”
- “The school is aware there are some gaps in pupils’ learning where new curriculums are being used.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 25 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) | 58% | 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: 33 first-preference applications, 30 offers in total, 26 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.
- Mersham Primary School 1.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Smeeth Community Primary School 2.4 mi Good Last distance published
- Sellindge Primary School 2.6 mi Good Last distance published
- Finberry Primary School 3.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Furley Park Primary Academy 3.6 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Brabourne Church of England Primary School 3.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Lympne Church of England Primary School 3.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Willesborough Junior School 3.9 mi School remains Good