Phoenix Community Primary School
Primary · Foundation school · Ages 4–11 · Ashford, Kent
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
1.621 miles
Published by Kent County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2023–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Phoenix Community Primary School is a primary school in Ashford, Kent for ages 4–11 (foundation school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 29 June 2022. Kent has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2023 to 2026 entry.
Phoenix Community 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 | 1.621 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, 41% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), while 10% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- In Reception 2026 the last child offered a place lived 1.621 miles away: 171st shortest of 434 Kent primary schools with a published last distance (middle 2.24 miles).
- Reception 2026 drew 25 first-choice applications for 25 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
- Free school meal eligibility stands at 53.7% of pupils, against a middle figure of 23.3% 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
- Belmont Road, Kennington, Ashford, TN24 9LS
- Type
- Foundation school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- Kent
- Pupils on roll
- 190 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 53.7% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 15.6
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 29 June 2022
Strengths
- “There is a strong commitment to include everyone in this caring and friendly community school.”
- “Pupils are happy to come to school and enjoy their learning.”
- “They say that teachers make lessons fun and interesting and ‘help you learn lots of things you didn’t know before.”
To improve
- “Leaders have already identified, however, that the knowledge and skills pupils need to know by the end of a year or key stage, are not as clearly defined in all subjects as in some.”
- “Pupils do not always remember well enough what they have learned.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 21 September 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) | 41% | 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: 25 first-preference applications, 25 offers in total, 25 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.
- Kennington Church of England Academy 0.5 mi School remains Good
- Downs View Infant School 0.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Goat Lees Primary School 0.6 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- St Teresa's Catholic Primary School 0.9 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Ashford, St Mary's Church of England Primary School 1.1 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Repton Manor Primary School 1.4 mi Good Last distance published
- Victoria Road Primary School 1.4 mi Good Last distance published
- Godinton Primary School 1.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published