St Paul's Infant School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–7 · Maidstone, Kent
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
1.245 miles
Published by Kent County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2023–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
St Paul's Infant School is a primary school in Maidstone, Kent for ages 4–7 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Standards maintained, from the inspection on 2 July 2025. Kent has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2023 to 2026 entry.
St Paul's 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 | 1.245 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 1.245 miles away, the 129th shortest of 434 Kent primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance.
- The Reception last distance for 2026 was further from the school than in 2025, and it has swung sharply between some years.
- For Reception 2026 there were 64 first-choice applications for 85 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 21 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- There are 17 pupils per teacher; the middle figure across the 8 nearest primary schools in Kent is 20.4.
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
- Hillary Road, Maidstone, ME14 2BS
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–7
- Council
- Kent
- Pupils on roll
- 242 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 23.6% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 17
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Standards maintained Inspected 2 July 2025
Strengths
- “St Paul’s is a highly inclusive school.”
- “It recognises, nurtures and celebrates each pupil’s unique talents.”
- “Pupils are happy and safe and quickly develop positive attitudes to learning.”
To improve
- “The school recognises that this is not yet the case in some other subjects in the wider curriculum.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 12 September 2025 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 64 first-preference applications, 85 offers in total, 64 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.
- North Borough Junior School 0.1 mi School remains Good
- Sandling Primary School 0.5 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Valley Invicta Primary School At East Borough 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Brunswick House Primary School 0.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Allington Primary School 1.3 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Palace Wood Primary School 1.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Maidstone, St Michael's Church of England Junior School 1.3 mi School remains Good
- St Michael's Church of England Infant School Maidstone 1.3 mi Not judged Last distance published