Thurnham Church of England Infant School
Primary · Voluntary controlled school · Ages 5–7 · Maidstone, Kent
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
6.789 miles
Published by Kent County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2023–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Thurnham Church of England Infant School is a primary school in Maidstone, Kent for ages 5–7 (voluntary controlled school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 21 February 2023. Kent has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2023 to 2026 entry.
Thurnham Church of England Infant 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 | 6.789 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 6.789 miles away, the 58th longest of 434 Kent primary schools with a published last distance.
- The 2026 Reception distance was nearer than in 2025 and further than in 2023, and it swung sharply between some years.
- Reception 2026 had 77 first-choice applications for 90 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 13 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- 5.1% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 20.2% 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
- The Landway, Bearsted, Maidstone, ME14 4BL
- Type
- Voluntary controlled school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 5–7
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Council
- Kent
- Pupils on roll
- 254 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 5.1% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 22.7
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 21 February 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils are joyful and safe in this nurturing school.”
- “Children make a strong start in early years, where the school’s exceptional pastoral care begins.”
- “Pupils feel special and highly valued.”
To improve
- “However, some pupils do not show high regard for their environment, and could look after resources more responsibly.”
- “Some pupils do not concentrate well when reading in a group.”
- “Leaders have not focused enough on some weaker areas of the curriculum.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 27 April 2023 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 77 first-preference applications, 90 offers in total, 77 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.
- Roseacre Junior School 0.0 mi Good
- Madginford Primary School 0.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Leigh Academy Bearsted 0.8 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Maidstone, St John's Church of England Primary School 0.8 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Greenfields Community Primary School 1.4 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Valley Invicta Primary School At East Borough 1.6 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Senacre Wood Primary School 1.7 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Park Way Primary School 1.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published