Parkside Community Foundation Primary School
Primary · Foundation school · Ages 4–11 · Canterbury, Kent
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
2.531 miles
Published by Kent County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2023–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Parkside Community Foundation Primary School is a primary school in Canterbury, Kent for ages 4–11 (foundation school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 25 April 2023. Kent has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2023 to 2026 entry.
Parkside Community Foundation 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 | 2.531 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, 23% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 0% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- In Reception 2026 there were 21 first-choice applications for 23 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 2 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- The last child offered a Reception place in 2026 lived 2.531 miles away, the 191st longest of 434 Kent primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance.
- 67.1% of pupils are eligible for free school meals; the middle figure across the 8 nearest primary schools in Kent is 34.3%.
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
- Tennyson Avenue, Canterbury, CT1 1EP
- Type
- Foundation school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- Kent
- Pupils on roll
- 161 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 67.1% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 14.6
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 25 April 2023
Strengths
- “Leaders have worked tirelessly to create a safe and inspiring haven for all pupils so that they can ‘REACH’ high, through the school values of ‘resilience, effort, aspiration, courtesy and honesty’.”
- “Pupils love coming to this culturally diverse school.”
- “They feel secure and valued because staff understand their individual needs.”
To improve
- “In some areas where curriculum leaders are new, consistent ways of helping pupils remember what they have learned are still being developed.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 22 June 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) | 23% | 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: 21 first-preference applications, 23 offers in total, 21 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 Thomas' Catholic Primary School, Canterbury 1.0 mi Good Last distance published
- St Johns Church of England Primary School 1.1 mi Good Last distance published
- St Stephen's Infant School 1.2 mi Good Last distance published
- St Stephen's Junior School 1.2 mi School remains Good
- Pilgrims' Way Primary School 1.2 mi Good Last distance published
- St Peter's Methodist Primary School 1.4 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Sturry Church of England Primary School 1.6 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Wincheap Foundation Primary School 2.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published