Willesborough Infant School
Primary · Foundation school · Ages 4–7 · Ashford, Kent
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
3.171 miles
Published by Kent County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2023–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Willesborough Infant School is a primary school in Ashford, Kent for ages 4–7 (foundation school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 14 September 2022. Kent has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2023 to 2026 entry.
Willesborough 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 | 3.171 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 2026 Reception last distance offered was 3.171 miles, the 163rd longest of 434 Kent primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance (middle figure 2.24 miles).
- Reception 2026 drew 90 first-choice applications for 100 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 10 offers went to families ranking it second or lower.
- 13.5% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 28.5% across 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
- Church Road, Willesborough, Ashford, TN24 0JZ
- Type
- Foundation school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–7
- Council
- Kent
- Pupils on roll
- 333 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 13.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 23.1
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 14 September 2022
Strengths
- “Each morning, pupils arrive smiling.”
- “They are excited to be at this friendly and happy school.”
- “Even the youngest children settle in quickly.”
To improve
- “Sometimes, however, planning does not set out clearly the steps to help pupils develop specific subject knowledge, including learning to be a scientist or a historian.”
- “In addition, while in English and mathematics teachers carefully check what pupils remember to help them plan next steps, this is not always the case in some other subjects.”
- “Where assessment is less well developed, teachers are not able to quickly identify any gaps in pupils’ learning.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 14 October 2022 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 90 first-preference applications, 100 offers in total, 90 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.
- Willesborough Junior School 0.1 mi School remains Good
- East Stour Primary School 1.0 mi Improved significantly Last distance published
- Victoria Road Primary School 1.5 mi Good Last distance published
- Finberry Primary School 1.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Ashford, St Mary's Church of England Primary School 1.9 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- St Simon of England Roman Catholic Primary School, Ashford 1.9 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Mersham Primary School 2.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Phoenix Community Primary School 2.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published