Brabourne Church of England Primary School
Primary · Voluntary controlled school · Ages 5–11 · Ashford, Kent
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
2.303 miles
Published by Kent County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2023–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Brabourne Church of England Primary School is a primary school in Ashford, Kent for ages 5–11 (voluntary controlled school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 12 March 2024. Kent has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2023 to 2026 entry.
Brabourne Church of England 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 | 2.303 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 2.303 miles away, the 212th longest of 434 Kent primary schools with a published last distance.
- The 2026 Reception distance was the shortest of the 4 years with a published distance, nearer than in 2025 and 2023, and it swung sharply between some years.
- Reception 2026 had 30 first-choice applications for 15 offers; 13 offers went to first-choice families, and 17 first-choice families were not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 87% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 27% 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
- School Lane, Brabourne, Ashford, TN25 5LQ
- Type
- Voluntary controlled school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 5–11
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Council
- Kent
- Pupils on roll
- 104 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 4.8% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 16.4
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 12 March 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils are rightly proud of their small village school.”
- “They benefit from the involvement they have in community life.”
- “Pupils learn to show citizenship in many ways, for example through litter picking and baking cakes for neighbours in the local area.”
To improve
- “While in some subjects the curriculum is not as fully embedded as it is in others, the school is taking the right ongoing action to ensure that this happens.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 3 May 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) | 87% | 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: 30 first-preference applications, 15 offers in total, 13 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.
- Smeeth Community Primary School 1.4 mi Good Last distance published
- Stowting Church of England Primary School 2.0 mi Improved significantly Last distance published
- Brook Community Primary School 2.3 mi Good Last distance published
- Sellindge Primary School 2.3 mi Good Last distance published
- Bodsham Church of England Primary School 2.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Mersham Primary School 3.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Aldington Primary School 3.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Willesborough Infant School 3.7 mi Good Last distance published