Ditton Infant School
Primary · Foundation school · Ages 4–7 · Aylesford, Kent
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
1.209 miles
Published by Kent County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2023–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Ditton Infant School is a primary school in Aylesford, Kent for ages 4–7 (foundation school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 4 October 2022. Kent has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2023 to 2026 entry.
Ditton Infant 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 | 1.209 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
- For Reception in 2026 there were 18 first-choice applications for 24 offers, 0.8 first choices per offer, the 34th lowest of 426 Kent primary schools.
- Every first-choice family was offered a Reception place in 2026, and 6 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- The last child offered a Reception place in 2026 lived 1.209 miles away, the 123rd shortest of 434 Kent primary schools with a published last distance.
- It has 16.7 pupils per teacher, compared with a middle figure of 20.9 across the 8 nearest primary schools in Kent.
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
- Pear Tree Avenue, Ditton, Aylesford, ME20 6EB
- Type
- Foundation school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–7
- Council
- Kent
- Pupils on roll
- 110 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 26.4% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 16.7
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 4 October 2022
Strengths
- “Pupils thrive in this school because leaders have created a culture that promotes kindness and respect for each other.”
- “Pupils feel safe because staff take the time to listen and resolve their worries.”
- “Bullying or unkindness are extremely rare, but staff deal with these well so friendships can quickly resume.”
To improve
- “However, leaders know not all pupils read books with enough regularity to be fluent readers.”
- “This means that some pupils struggle to read words in full sentences.”
- “Although time has been provided each week for identified pupils to read to an adult, leaders recognise the need to increase these opportunities in the very near future.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 24 November 2022 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 18 first-preference applications, 24 offers in total, 18 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.
- Ditton Church of England Junior School 0.1 mi No Ofsted grade
- Valley Invicta Primary School At Aylesford 0.5 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Brookfield Junior School 0.8 mi School remains Good
- Brookfield Infant School 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Lunsford Primary School 0.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Lift St James the Great 1.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Peter's Church of England Primary School 1.3 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Leybourne, St Peter and St Paul Church of England Primary Academy 1.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published