Swalecliffe Community Primary School
Primary · Foundation school · Ages 4–11 · Whitstable, Kent
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
72.023 miles
Published by Kent County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2023–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Swalecliffe Community Primary School is a primary school in Whitstable, Kent for ages 4–11 (foundation school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 14 September 2023. Kent has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2023 to 2026 entry.
Swalecliffe Community 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 | 72.023 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 2026, the last child offered a Reception place lived 72.023 miles away, the 2nd longest of 434 Kent primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance.
- Reception 2026 had 41 first-choice applications for 42 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 1 offer went to a family who ranked it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 52% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 6% 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
- Bridgefield Road, Swalecliffe, Whitstable, CT5 2PH
- Type
- Foundation school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- Kent
- Pupils on roll
- 492 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 17.1% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 20.4
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 14 September 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils are ambitious to live up to the school rules of ‘ready, respectful and safe’.”
- “The school ensures that there is a high priority given to fostering strong relationships between staff and pupils.”
- “There is a positive environment in classrooms.”
To improve
- “While the school reviews the curriculum regularly, in a few subjects pupils are not making clear links in their learning.”
- “Sometimes, pupils remember activities more than the learning itself, which means they do not always achieve as well as they could.”
- “For some pupils, however, additional support is not always precise enough, which means they do not learn to read as fluently as they could.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 18 October 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) | 52% | 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: 41 first-preference applications, 42 offers in total, 41 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 Catholic Primary School, Whitstable 0.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Westmeads Community Infant School 1.3 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Whitstable and Seasalter Endowed Church of England Junior School 1.4 mi School remains Outstanding
- Whitstable Junior School 1.5 mi Standards maintained
- St Alphege Church of England Infant School 1.5 mi Good Last distance published
- Thornden Wood Primary School 1.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Joy Lane Primary Foundation School 2.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Hampton Primary School 2.0 mi Not judged Last distance published