Bredhurst Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School
Primary · Voluntary controlled school · Ages 4–11 · Gillingham, Kent
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
3.335 miles
Published by Kent County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2023–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Bredhurst Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School is a primary school in Gillingham, Kent for ages 4–11 (voluntary controlled school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 23 January 2024. Kent has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2023 to 2026 entry.
Bredhurst Church of England Voluntary Controlled 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 | 3.335 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 last child offered a Reception place for 2026 lived 3.335 miles away, the longest of the 4 years with a published distance, further than in 2025 and 2023.
- Of the 60 applications for Reception 2026, 42 (70%) came from families living outside Kent, and 11 offers went to them.
- In 2024/25, 90% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 24% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- The 90% figure for 2024/25 was the highest of 8 schools: this one and the 7 of the 8 nearest primary schools in Kent that have results.
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
- The Street, Bredhurst, Gillingham, ME7 3JY
- Type
- Voluntary controlled school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Council
- Kent
- Pupils on roll
- 140 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 6.4% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 21.6
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 23 January 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils’ attitudes to school are exceptionally positive.”
- “Their views about their education have a sense of optimism and purpose.”
- “They relish the opportunities the school provides and enthusiastically discuss their learning.”
To improve
- “In a few subjects, the content that the school expects pupils to learn is less precisely defined, which leads to some variation in pupils’ understanding.”
- “The school recognises that this is less precise in some other subjects.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 14 March 2024 (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) | 90% | 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: 20 first-preference applications, 20 offers in total, 18 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.
- Tunbury Primary School 2.4 mi Good Last distance published
- Hartlip Endowed Church of England Primary School 2.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Sandling Primary School 3.4 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Leigh Academy Bearsted 3.5 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- St Paul's Infant School 3.9 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- North Borough Junior School 3.9 mi School remains Good
- Maidstone, St John's Church of England Primary School 4.1 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Roseacre Junior School 4.1 mi Good