Callis Grange Nursery and Infant School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–7 · Broadstairs, Kent
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
2.635 miles
Published by Kent County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2023–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Callis Grange Nursery and Infant School is a primary school in Broadstairs, Kent for ages 3–7 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 20 April 2022. Kent has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2023 to 2026 entry.
Callis Grange Nursery and 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 | 2.635 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 in 2026 lived 2.635 miles away, the 188th longest of 434 Kent primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance.
- Reception 2026 had 80 first-choice applications for 90 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 10 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- 21.6% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 41.1% 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
- Beacon Road, Broadstairs, CT10 3DG
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–7
- Council
- Kent
- Pupils on roll
- 291 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 21.6% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 20.6
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 20 April 2022
Strengths
- “Pupils at Callis Grange Nursery and Infant School have a strong sense of what it means to be a good citizen.”
- “For example, they take their responsibility for filling up the bird feeder very seriously.”
- “Pupils feel safe and enjoy coming to school.”
To improve
- “In some subjects, such as geography and music, what pupils need to know and do is not set out clearly enough.”
- “As a result, teachers cannot plan further to ensure that pupils’ knowledge is secure in these subjects.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 16 June 2022 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 80 first-preference applications, 90 offers in total, 80 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.
- St Peter-in-Thanet CofE Junior School 0.1 mi Outstanding
- St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Broadstairs 0.5 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Upton Junior School 0.8 mi Not judged
- St Mildred's Primary Infant School 0.9 mi School remains Outstanding Last distance published
- Northdown Primary School 1.1 mi Good Last distance published
- Bromstone Primary School, Broadstairs 1.1 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Palm Bay Primary School 1.3 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Cliftonville Primary School 1.3 mi Good Last distance published