High Firs Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–11 · Swanley, Kent
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.47 miles
Published by Kent County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2023–2025 trend 🔒
High Firs Primary School is a primary school in Swanley, Kent for ages 4–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 11 October 2023. Kent has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2023 to 2026 entry.
High Firs 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 | 0.47 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 Reception 2026 last distance offered was 0.47 miles, the 34th shortest of 434 Kent primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance; the middle figure was 2.24 miles.
- That 2026 Reception distance was further than in 2025 and about the same as in 2023; it swung sharply between some years, most of all from 2023 to 2024.
- For Reception 2026 there were 31 first-choice applications for 30 offers; 27 offers went to first-choice families, and 4 first-choice families (13%) were not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 63% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 7% 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
- Court Crescent, Swanley, BR8 8NR
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- Kent
- Pupils on roll
- 210 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 18.1% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 23.1
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 11 October 2023
Strengths
- “Leaders have ensured that pupils experience a broad, balanced and stimulating curriculum.”
- “From early years upwards, pupils are fully engaged in their learning.”
- “The school has high expectations of pupils’ achievement from early years onwards.”
To improve
- “However, some staff, in some subjects, do not consistently help pupils to connect new learning with what they have studied previously.”
- “This means that some new learning is not securely committed to pupils’ long-term memory.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 17 November 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) | 63% | 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: 31 first-preference applications, 30 offers in total, 27 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 Mary's Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School 0.4 mi Good Last distance published
- St Bartholomew's Catholic Primary School, Swanley 0.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Downsview Community Primary School 0.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Horizon Primary Academy 0.7 mi School remains Good (Improving) - S5 Next Last distance published
- Crockenhill Primary School 0.7 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St Pauls' Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School 1.4 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Hextable Primary School 1.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- The Anthony Roper Primary School 2.3 mi Some aspects not as strong Last distance published