Victoria Road Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 5–11 · Ashford, Kent
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.589 miles
Published by Kent County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2023–2025 trend 🔒
Victoria Road Primary School is a primary school in Ashford, Kent for ages 5–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 21 May 2024. Kent has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2023 to 2026 entry.
Victoria 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 | 0.589 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
- Reception 2026: the last child offered a place lived 0.589 miles away, the 58th shortest of 434 Kent primary schools with a published last distance, this one included.
- The 2026 Reception last distance was further from the school than in 2025 and 2024, and the 2026 figure was the longest of the 3 years with a published distance.
- For Reception 2026 there were 33 first-choice applications for 30 offers; 30 offers went to first-choice families, and 3 first-choice families were not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 50% 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
- Victoria Road, Ashford, TN23 7HQ
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 5–11
- Council
- Kent
- Pupils on roll
- 210 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 23.3% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 20.5
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 21 May 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils are proud to attend this caring and inclusive school.”
- “They have positive relationships with staff and each other.”
- “Pupils participate in lessons excitedly and develop a passion for learning.”
To improve
- “However, the amended curriculum that a small number of pupils with SEND learn is not designed carefully enough.”
- “As a result, these pupils do not achieve as well as they could.”
- “However, teachers do not always design activities that support pupils to learn the intended curriculum well enough.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 24 June 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) | 50% | 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, 30 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.
- Ashford, St Mary's Church of England Primary School 0.5 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Ashford Oaks Community Primary School 0.6 mi Good Last distance published
- St Simon of England Roman Catholic Primary School, Ashford 0.7 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St Teresa's Catholic Primary School 0.8 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Beaver Green Primary School 1.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Repton Manor Primary School 1.1 mi Good Last distance published
- East Stour Primary School 1.2 mi Improved significantly Last distance published
- Godinton Primary School 1.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published