New Ash Green Primary School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–11 · Longfield, Kent
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
4.754 miles
Published by Kent County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2023–2025 trend 🔒
New Ash Green Primary School is a primary school in Longfield, Kent for ages 4–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 25 February 2022. Kent has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2023 to 2026 entry.
New Ash Green 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 | 4.754 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 4.754 miles away, the 103rd longest of 434 Kent primary schools with a published last distance (middle figure 2.24 miles).
- The 2026 Reception last distance was further from the school than in 2025, and it swung sharply between some years.
- For Reception 2026, there were 53 first-choice applications for 56 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 3 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 45% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), the 2nd lowest of 9 schools: this one and 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
- North Square, New Ash Green, Longfield, DA3 8JT
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- Kent
- Pupils on roll
- 400 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 18.3% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 24.1
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 25 February 2022
Strengths
- “Pupils feel happy and safe at school.”
- “A pupil explained this by saying, ‘Nothing bad would happen here.”
- “They talk fondly of memorable experiences such as the re-enactment of historical events.”
To improve
- “In the wider curriculum, pupils do not connect their learning as well over time.”
- “This means that they do not have the same depth of understanding.”
- “However, they do not connect these to build wider views on overarching themes such as monarchy or empires.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 29 April 2022 (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) | 45% | 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: 53 first-preference applications, 56 offers in total, 53 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.
- Leigh Academy Hartley 1.1 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Our Lady of Hartley Catholic Primary School, Hartley, Longfield 1.2 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Fawkham Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School 1.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Langafel Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School 1.9 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
- Meopham Community Academy 2.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Culverstone Green Primary School 2.4 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St. Edmund's Church of England Primary School 2.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Istead Rise Primary School 3.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published