Painters Ash Primary School
Primary · Foundation school · Ages 4–11 · Gravesend, Kent
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
2.525 miles
Published by Kent County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2023–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Painters Ash Primary School is a primary school in Gravesend, Kent for ages 4–11 (foundation school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 1 March 2023. Kent has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2023 to 2026 entry.
Painters Ash 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 | 2.525 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
- In 2024/25, 77% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%) and 17% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- For Reception 2026 there were 45 first-choice applications for 58 offers: every first-choice family was offered a place, and 13 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- The last child offered a Reception place for 2026 lived 2.525 miles away, the 194th longest of 434 Kent primary schools with a published last distance (middle figure 2.24 miles).
- 22% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 30.3% 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
- Masefield Road, Northfleet, Gravesend, DA11 8EL
- Type
- Foundation school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- Kent
- Pupils on roll
- 391 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 22% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 18.7
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 1 March 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils arrive at school in the morning happy and excited to find out what the day has in store.”
- “Pupils rise to the challenges of the school’s curriculum and the high expectations leaders set for behaviour.”
- “Pupils strive to live by the school’s values of respect, community, success, excellence, self-confidence and determination.”
To improve
- “In some subjects, planning does not identify explicitly enough the crucial knowledge that pupils must remember.”
- “Furthermore, it is not always clear enough when important subject concepts will be revisited over time.”
- “This makes it harder for teachers to build on pupils’ prior learning.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 12 May 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) | 77% | 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: 45 first-preference applications, 58 offers in total, 45 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.
- Springhead Park Primary School 0.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Shears Green Infant School 0.7 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Shears Green Junior School 0.7 mi School remains Good
- Cecil Road Primary and Nursery School 1.0 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Northfleet 1.0 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Copperfield Academy 1.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Botolph's Church of England Primary School 1.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Sedley's Church of England Primary School 1.0 mi Good Last distance published