Priory Infant School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–7 · Ramsgate, Kent
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
3.914 miles
Published by Kent County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2023–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Priory Infant School is a primary school in Ramsgate, Kent for ages 4–7 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 21 June 2023. Kent has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2023 to 2026 entry.
Priory 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 | 3.914 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 31 first-choice applications for 49 offers: every first-choice family was offered a place, and 18 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- The last child offered a Reception place for 2026 lived 3.914 miles away, the 123rd longest of 434 Kent primary schools with a published last distance; further than in 2025.
- The Reception last distance swung sharply between some years, the biggest move being from 2025 to 2026.
- Every applicant was offered a Reception place in 1 of the 3 years with a published outcome.
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
- Cannon Road, Ramsgate, CT11 9XT
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–7
- Council
- Kent
- Pupils on roll
- 124 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 50% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 13.7
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 21 June 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils are happy to come to this friendly school where everyone is made to feel welcome and included.”
- “Pupils are kind playmates during breaktimes and lunchtimes.”
- “They are encouraged to be active and keep fit, having opportunities to take part in many interschool sporting tournaments.”
To improve
- “New leaders’ plans for improvement were slowed due to staffing changes and the impact of the pandemic.”
- “In other curriculum areas, leaders know what must be done to identify the key knowledge and skills more precisely so that pupils remember key learning and attain more highly.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 14 September 2023 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 31 first-preference applications, 49 offers in total, 31 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.
- Ellington Infant School 0.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Christ Church Church of England Junior School, Ramsgate 0.5 mi School remains Good
- St Laurence In Thanet Church of England Junior Academy 0.5 mi Good
- St Ethelbert's Catholic Primary School 0.6 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Newlands Primary School 0.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Ramsgate Arts Primary School 0.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Newington Community Primary School 1.0 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Chilton Primary School 1.0 mi Standards maintained Last distance published