Capel-le-Ferne Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–11 · Folkestone, Kent
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
3.897 miles
Published by Kent County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2023–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Capel-le-Ferne Primary School is a primary school in Folkestone, Kent for ages 4–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 29 March 2022. Kent has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2023 to 2026 entry.
Capel-le-Ferne 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 | 3.897 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 the last child offered a place lived 3.897 miles away, 124th longest of the 434 Kent primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance.
- In 2024/25, 50% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), the lowest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest primary schools in Kent.
- Reception 2026 drew 15 first-choice applications for 18 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 3 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- 17.6% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 52% 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
- Capel Street, Capel-le-Ferne, Folkestone, CT18 7HB
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- Kent
- Pupils on roll
- 170 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 17.6% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 17.9
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 29 March 2022
Strengths
- “Pupils arrive at school each day happy to be part of their inclusive and supportive school community.”
- “More of them are attending regularly than in previous years.”
- “Pupils know that staff want them to achieve well.”
To improve
- “However, some pupils still do not attend school regularly enough.”
- “This means that they sometimes miss out on important learning.”
- “However, these improvements have not yet had an impact in published outcomes at the end of key stage 2.”
Safeguarding: met
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 8 September 2026 (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) | 50% | 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: 15 first-preference applications, 18 offers in total, 15 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.
- Martello Primary 1.4 mi Good Last distance published
- Folkestone St. Mary's Church of England Primary Academy 1.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Castle Hill Community Primary School 1.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Mundella Primary School 2.0 mi Good Last distance published
- Folkestone, St Peter's Church of England Primary School 2.1 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Hawkinge Primary School 2.2 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Folkestone Primary 2.2 mi Good Last distance published
- Stella Maris Catholic Primary School 2.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published