St Peter's Methodist Primary School
Primary · Voluntary controlled school · Ages 4–11 · Canterbury, Kent
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.828 miles
Published by Kent County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2023–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
St Peter's Methodist Primary School is a primary school in Canterbury, Kent for ages 4–11 (voluntary controlled school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Standards maintained, from the inspection on 20 November 2024. Kent has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2023 to 2026 entry.
St Peter's Methodist 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 | 0.828 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 Reception place in 2026 went to a child living 0.828 miles away, the 86th shortest of 434 Kent primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance.
- The 2026 Reception distance was nearer the school than in 2025 but further than in 2023, with the sharpest swing coming from 2024 to 2025.
- Reception 2026 saw 29 first-choice applications for 30 offers; 25 offers went to first-choice families, and 4 first-choice families (14%) were not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 63% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 17% 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
- St Peter's Grove, Canterbury, CT1 2DH
- Type
- Voluntary controlled school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Religious character
- Methodist
- Council
- Kent
- Pupils on roll
- 208 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 27.9% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 21.7
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Standards maintained Inspected 20 November 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils delight in attending this caring school.”
- “They are respectful of the views of others.”
- “Pupils are proud of their school.”
To improve
- “However, not all teachers consistently apply the adaptations needed to support pupils to succeed.”
- “This means that some pupils can struggle to learn and can become distracted.”
- “However, the breadth of activities to explore their learning in the outside area is less fulsome.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 16 December 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) | 63% | 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: 29 first-preference applications, 30 offers in total, 25 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.
- St Johns Church of England Primary School 0.4 mi Good Last distance published
- St Thomas' Catholic Primary School, Canterbury 0.4 mi Good Last distance published
- The Canterbury Primary School 0.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Wincheap Foundation Primary School 0.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Stephen's Infant School 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- St Stephen's Junior School 0.9 mi School remains Good
- Pilgrims' Way Primary School 1.1 mi Good Last distance published
- Parkside Community Foundation Primary School 1.4 mi Good Last distance published