St Michael's Church of England Infant School Maidstone
Primary · Voluntary controlled school · Ages 5–7 · Maidstone, Kent
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.548 miles
Published by Kent County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2023–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
St Michael's Church of England Infant School Maidstone is a primary school in Maidstone, Kent for ages 5–7 (voluntary controlled school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Not judged, from the inspection on 3 December 2024. Kent has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2023 to 2026 entry.
St Michael's Church of England Infant School Maidstone 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 | 0.548 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 0.548 miles away, the 49th shortest of 434 Kent primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance.
- The Reception last distance swung sharply between some years; the 2026 figure was further than in 2025 and 2023, and the longest of the 4 years with a published distance.
- For Reception 2026, there were 43 first-choice applications for 40 offers; 38 offers went to first-choice families and 5 first-choice families were not offered a place.
- The school has 13.8 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 22.9 across the 8 nearest primary schools in Kent.
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
- Douglas Road, Maidstone, ME16 8ER
- Type
- Voluntary controlled school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 5–7
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Council
- Kent
- Pupils on roll
- 118 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 20.3% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 13.8
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Not judged Inspected 3 December 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils love coming to this small, welcoming school.”
- “They are warmly cared for by kind, nurturing adults.”
- “Clear, well-established routines and kind, reassuring guidance from staff help pupils to behave well and feel safe.”
To improve
- “Leaders know that some elements of the wider curriculum are too vague, and that subject specific vocabulary needs emphasis.”
- “Consequently, while pupils achieve well overall, they do not learn and remember some of the curriculum, including important language, as well as they should.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 3 March 2025 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 43 first-preference applications, 40 offers in total, 38 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.
- Maidstone, St Michael's Church of England Junior School 0.0 mi School remains Good
- Archbishop Courtenay Primary School 0.3 mi Good Last distance published
- Brunswick House Primary School 0.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Francis' Catholic Primary School, Maidstone 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- South Borough Primary School 0.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- West Borough Primary School 0.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Jubilee Primary School 1.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Valley Invicta Primary School At East Borough 1.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published