St Thomas' Catholic Primary School, Canterbury
Primary · Voluntary aided school · Ages 5–11 · Canterbury, Kent
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.057 miles
Published by Kent County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2023–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
St Thomas' Catholic Primary School, Canterbury is a primary school in Canterbury, Kent for ages 5–11 (voluntary aided school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 19 April 2023. Kent has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2023 to 2026 entry.
St Thomas' Catholic Primary School, Canterbury 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 | 0.057 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 Reception 2026 the last child offered a place lived 0.057 miles away, the shortest of 434 Kent primary schools with a published last distance (middle figure 2.24 miles).
- Reception last distances swung sharply between some years, and the 2026 figure was the shortest of the 4 years with a published distance.
- Reception 2026 had 38 first-choice applications for 30 offers; 29 offers went to first-choice families, with 9 first-choice families not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 80% 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
- 99 Military Road, Canterbury, CT1 1NE
- Type
- Voluntary aided school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 5–11
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Council
- Kent
- Pupils on roll
- 210 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 14.8% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 24.4
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 19 April 2023
Strengths
- “Leaders have high expectations for pupils at this school.”
- “They are determined that pupils achieve highly and are well prepared for the next stage of their lives.”
- “They are polite, respectful and considerate of each other.”
To improve
- “A small number of foundation subjects, however, are not as strong as the best.”
- “Here, the curriculum is not yet planned with enough precision.”
- “This means that pupils’ recall of important knowledge is not as secure as in other subjects.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 16 June 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) | 80% | 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: 38 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.
- St Johns Church of England Primary School 0.2 mi Good Last distance published
- St Peter's Methodist Primary School 0.4 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- St Stephen's Infant School 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- St Stephen's Junior School 0.8 mi School remains Good
- Pilgrims' Way Primary School 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Parkside Community Foundation Primary School 1.0 mi Good Last distance published
- Wincheap Foundation Primary School 1.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- The Canterbury Primary School 1.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published