Garlinge Primary School and Nursery
Primary · Foundation school · Ages 3–11 · Margate, Kent
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
3.434 miles
Published by Kent County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2023–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Garlinge Primary School and Nursery is a primary school in Margate, Kent for ages 3–11 (foundation school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 28 November 2023. Kent has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2023 to 2026 entry.
Garlinge Primary School and Nursery 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 | 3.434 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, 56% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 10% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- The Reception 2026 last distance offered was 3.434 miles, the 147th longest of the 434 Kent primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance; the middle figure was 2.24 miles.
- Reception 2026 drew 76 first-choice applications for 84 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 8 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- Free school meal eligibility is 42.8% of pupils, below the middle figure of 50.9% 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
- Westfield Road, Margate, CT9 5PA
- Type
- Foundation school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Kent
- Pupils on roll
- 726 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 42.8% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 19.6
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 28 November 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils behave and concentrate very well in this warm and inclusive school.”
- “They consider the views of others and share their own confidently.”
- “Pupils have a clear understanding of diversity in their own school and the wider community.”
To improve
- “However, occasionally, teachers select activities that do not help pupils to make connections to what they have already learned.”
- “This means that pupils do not always deepen their essential knowledge.”
- “The school has responded quickly to the low published outcomes in phonics in 2023.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 16 January 2024 (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) | 56% | 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: 76 first-preference applications, 84 offers in total, 76 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 Gregory's Catholic Primary School, Margate 0.8 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Salmestone Primary School 0.9 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- St Crispin's Infant School 1.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Margate, Holy Trinity and St John's Church of England Primary School 1.2 mi Good Last distance published
- St Saviour's Church of England Junior School 1.2 mi School remains Good
- Drapers Mills Primary Academy 1.4 mi School remains Good (Concerns) - S5 Next Last distance published
- Cliftonville Primary School 2.0 mi Good Last distance published
- Northdown Primary School 2.1 mi Good Last distance published