Chevening, St Botolph's Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School
Primary · Voluntary aided school · Ages 5–11 · Sevenoaks, Kent
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
1.73 miles
Published by Kent County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2023–2025 trend 🔒
Chevening, St Botolph's Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School is a primary school in Sevenoaks, Kent for ages 5–11 (voluntary aided school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Standards maintained, from the inspection on 4 June 2025. Kent has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2023 to 2026 entry.
Chevening, St Botolph's Church of England Voluntary Aided 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 | 1.73 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, 76% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 14% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- The last Reception place in 2026 went to a child 1.73 miles away, nearer than in 2024 and 2023: the shortest of the 3 years with a published distance.
- Reception 2026 drew 33 first-choice applications for 30 offers; 27 offers went to first-choice families, and 6 first-choice families (18%) were not offered a place.
- 5.6% of pupils are eligible for free school meals; the middle figure across the 8 nearest primary schools in Kent is 11.5%.
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
- Chevening Road, Chipstead, Sevenoaks, TN13 2SA
- Type
- Voluntary aided school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 5–11
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Council
- Kent
- Pupils on roll
- 196 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 5.6% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 23.3
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Standards maintained Inspected 4 June 2025
Strengths
- “The school has high aspirations.”
- “Many pupils achieve well, personally and academically.”
- “The school encourages pupils to be ambitious for themselves.”
To improve
- “However, in a few curriculum areas, checks on pupils’ understanding are not as robust.”
- “This means sometimes teachers do not precisely know what pupils have remembered, can do or have built fluency in.”
- “Gaps develop in pupils’ knowledge, and this hinders their progress in understanding more complex ideas and thinking.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 3 July 2025 (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) | 76% | 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: 33 first-preference applications, 30 offers in total, 27 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.
- Amherst School 0.8 mi Good
- Riverhead Infants' School 1.0 mi Good Last distance published
- Dunton Green Primary School 1.0 mi Good Last distance published
- Sundridge and Brasted Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School 1.3 mi Good Last distance published
- Sevenoaks Primary School 1.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Thomas' Catholic Primary School, Sevenoaks 2.2 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Lady Boswell's Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School, Sevenoaks 2.3 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Katharine's Knockholt Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School 2.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published