St Ethelbert's Catholic Primary School
Primary · Voluntary aided school · Ages 3–11 · Ramsgate, Kent
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.313 miles
Published by Kent County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2023–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
St Ethelbert's Catholic Primary School is a primary school in Ramsgate, Kent for ages 3–11 (voluntary aided school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Standards maintained, from the inspection on 8 May 2025. Kent has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2023 to 2026 entry.
St Ethelbert's Catholic 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 | 0.313 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 2026 the last child offered a Reception place lived 0.313 miles away, the 13th shortest of the 434 Kent primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance.
- The Reception last distance has swung sharply, most of all from 2023 to 2024; the 2026 figure was further than in 2025 and nearer than in 2023.
- Reception 2026 drew 33 first-choice applications for 30 offers; 29 offers went to first-choice families, and 4 first-choice families (12%) were not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 70% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 7% 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 Ethelbert's Catholic Primary School, Dane Park Road, Ramsgate, CT11 7LS
- Type
- Voluntary aided school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Council
- Kent
- Pupils on roll
- 205 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 40.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 17.4
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Standards maintained Inspected 8 May 2025
Strengths
- “Pupils love, and feel loved by, the school.”
- “Pupils speak passionately about the wide range of opportunities available to them.”
- “The school works well with parents and community leaders.”
To improve
- “However, for some pupils, the changes to the wider curriculum have left some gaps in what they know from previous years.”
- “The school has a comprehensive plan for addressing this, but this is not fully implemented.”
- “This means that pupils struggle to make meaningful connections between their current topics and what they learned in previous years.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 17 June 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) | 70% | 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, 29 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.
- Newlands Primary School 0.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Ramsgate, Holy Trinity Church of England Primary School 0.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Priory Infant School 0.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Ellington Infant School 0.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Laurence In Thanet Church of England Junior Academy 1.0 mi Good
- Christ Church Church of England Junior School, Ramsgate 1.0 mi School remains Good
- Ramsgate Arts Primary School 1.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Bromstone Primary School, Broadstairs 1.2 mi Not judged Last distance published