West Borough Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–11 · Maidstone, Kent
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
13.083 miles
Published by Kent County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2023–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
West Borough Primary School is a primary school in Maidstone, Kent for ages 3–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 19 October 2022. Kent has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2023 to 2026 entry.
West Borough 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 | 13.083 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 13.083 miles away, the 29th longest of the 434 Kent primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance.
- The 2026 Reception last distance was further from the school than in 2025 and in 2023, and the 2026 figure was the longest of the 4 years.
- Reception 2026 had 51 first-choice applications for 60 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 9 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 47% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of primary school (England 62%), and 5% 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
- Greenway, Maidstone, ME16 8TL
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Kent
- Pupils on roll
- 456 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 26.8% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 22.5
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 19 October 2022
Strengths
- “Leaders expect all pupils to behave well at all times.”
- “Pupils respond to these high expectations.”
- “They are polite and respectful and really care for each other.”
To improve
- “Leaders know that checks on pupils’ learning in some other subject areas are not as strong.”
- “This means that some pupils are not learning as well as they could across the wider curriculum.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 1 December 2022 (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) | 47% | 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: 51 first-preference applications, 60 offers in total, 51 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.
- Jubilee Primary School 0.3 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Francis' Catholic Primary School, Maidstone 0.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Barming Primary School 0.8 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Maidstone, St Michael's Church of England Junior School 0.9 mi School remains Good
- St Michael's Church of England Infant School Maidstone 0.9 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Palace Wood Primary School 1.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Brunswick House Primary School 1.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Archbishop Courtenay Primary School 1.1 mi Good Last distance published