St Lawrence Church of England Primary School
Primary · Voluntary controlled school · Ages 5–11 · Sevenoaks, Kent
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
13.325 miles
Published by Kent County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2023–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
St Lawrence Church of England Primary School is a primary school in Sevenoaks, Kent for ages 5–11 (voluntary controlled school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 27 September 2022. Kent has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2023 to 2026 entry.
St Lawrence 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 | 13.325 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 in 2026 lived 13.325 miles away, 28th longest of 434 Kent primary schools with a published last distance (middle figure 2.24 miles).
- Distances have swung sharply between years; the 2026 Reception figure was further than in 2025 and 2023, and was the longest of the 3 years with a published distance.
- Reception 2026 drew 9 first-choice applications for 12 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 3 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 75% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 13% 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
- Church Road, Stone Street, Sevenoaks, TN15 0LN
- Type
- Voluntary controlled school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 5–11
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Council
- Kent
- Pupils on roll
- 87 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 12.6% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 18.7
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 27 September 2022
Strengths
- “Staff are patient, caring and reassuring.”
- “They give pupils the support they need, both for their learning and their well-being.”
- “As one parent described the school: ’This is a little school with a huge heart’.”
To improve
- “In a small number of subjects, however, this information is not quite as precise.”
- “This is because, in these subjects, leaders do not have a clear oversight of the full curriculum.”
- “Consequently, when pupils start a new topic in these subjects, it is not always clear that pupils have the prior knowledge they need.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 11 November 2022 (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) | 75% | 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: 9 first-preference applications, 12 offers in total, 9 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.
- Ightham Primary School 1.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Plaxtol Primary School 2.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Shipbourne School 2.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Seal Church of England Primary School 2.2 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St John's Church of England Primary School, Sevenoaks 2.5 mi Good Last distance published
- Lady Boswell's Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School, Sevenoaks 2.6 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Kemsing Primary School 2.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Borough Green Primary School 2.8 mi Good Last distance published