Claremont Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 5–11 · Tunbridge Wells, Kent
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.401 miles
Published by Kent County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2020–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Claremont Primary School is a primary school in Tunbridge Wells, Kent for ages 5–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 11 January 2023. Kent and the school have published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2020 to 2026 entry.
Claremont 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 | 0.401 mi |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2023 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2022 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2021 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2020 | 🔒 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 0.401 miles away, the 23rd shortest of the 434 Kent primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance.
- The Reception last distance swung sharply between some years; it was nearer the school in 2026 than in 2025, and further than in 2020.
- Reception 2026 had 77 first-choice applications for 60 offers: 60 offers went to first-choice families and 17 first-choice families (22%) were not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 80% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 34% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
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
- Banner Farm Road, Tunbridge Wells, TN2 5EB
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 5–11
- Council
- Kent
- Pupils on roll
- 436 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 3.7% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 22.4
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 11 January 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils are very proud to attend Claremont Primary School.”
- “They talk with confidence and enthusiasm about what makes their school special, pointing out the ways that everyone is responsible for looking out for each other.”
- “They are pleased to be trained as ‘playground buddies’ and ‘well-being ambassadors’.”
To improve
- “In lessons, pupils engage happily with phonics and learn well, although there is some inconsistency in how well pupils are supported when they are reading books to adults.”
- “Staff do not yet routinely use the agreed phonetical approach.”
- “This hinders the weakest readers from gaining the knowledge and skills they need to become confident, fluent readers.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 14 February 2023 (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) | 80% | 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: 77 first-preference applications, 60 offers in total, 60 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's Church of England Primary School 0.3 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St James' Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School 0.6 mi Good Last distance published
- The Wells Free School 0.8 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- St Barnabas CofE VA Primary School 0.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Broadwater Down Primary School 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- St Mark's Church of England Primary School 1.3 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Skinners' Temple Grove 1.3 mi Some aspects not as strong Last distance published
- Bishops Down Primary and Nursery School 1.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published