Margate, Holy Trinity and St John's Church of England Primary School
Primary · Voluntary controlled school · Ages 4–11 · Margate, Kent
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
1.71 miles
Published by Kent County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2023–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Margate, Holy Trinity and St John's Church of England Primary School is a primary school in Margate, Kent for ages 4–11 (voluntary controlled school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 28 March 2023. Kent has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2023 to 2026 entry.
Margate, Holy Trinity and St John's 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 | 1.71 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 2024/25, 31% of pupils (England 62%) met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, and 0% (England 8%) reached the higher standard.
- In 2026 the last child offered a Reception place lived 1.71 miles away, about the same as in 2025, and the 2026 figure was the longest of the 4 years published.
- Reception 2026 drew 52 first-choice applications for 56 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 4 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
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
- St John's Road, Margate, CT9 1LU
- Type
- Voluntary controlled school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Council
- Kent
- Pupils on roll
- 397 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 53.4% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 16.9
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 28 March 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils enjoy attending this welcoming school.”
- “Staff value what pupils have to say.”
- “For example, pupils elected to the school council work with staff to make improvements to the school.”
To improve
- “However, in a few subjects, the knowledge and skills that pupils need to learn are not identified precisely enough, and teachers are not always clear about what they should teach and when.”
- “As a result, in some subjects, pupils sometimes develop gaps in their knowledge and do not achieve as well as they could.”
- “However, this is not the case in all subjects.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 24 May 2023 (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) | 31% | 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: 52 first-preference applications, 56 offers in total, 52 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.
- Salmestone Primary School 0.5 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Drapers Mills Primary Academy 0.6 mi School remains Good (Concerns) - S5 Next Last distance published
- St Gregory's Catholic Primary School, Margate 0.7 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Cliftonville Primary School 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Northdown Primary School 1.1 mi Good Last distance published
- Garlinge Primary School and Nursery 1.2 mi Good Last distance published
- Palm Bay Primary School 1.5 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Callis Grange Nursery and Infant School 2.1 mi Good Last distance published