Wentworth Primary School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 4–11 · Dartford, Kent
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
1.585 miles
Published by Kent County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2023–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Wentworth Primary School is a primary school in Dartford, Kent for ages 4–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 7 June 2023. Kent has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2023 to 2026 entry.
Wentworth 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 | 1.585 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
- The last child offered a Reception place in 2026 lived 1.585 miles away, further than in 2025 and nearer than in 2024, with the biggest move between 2025 and 2026.
- Reception 2026 had 87 first-choice applications for 87 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
- Of 144 Reception applications in 2026, 41 (28%) came from families living outside Kent, and 27 offers went to them.
- In 2024/25, 62% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 6% 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
- Wentworth Drive, Dartford, DA1 3NG
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- Kent
- Pupils on roll
- 649 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 15.1% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 23.1
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 7 June 2023
Strengths
- “Every morning, staff welcome them warmly into this caring and harmonious school.”
- “Leaders have high expectations and aspirations for pupils to succeed.”
- “Pupils benefit from links with famous past pupils in both sport and music.”
To improve
- “However, in some subjects the curriculum is at an earlier stage of development.”
- “Leaders have not yet identified the key building blocks of knowledge and subject-specific vocabulary that pupils need to learn.”
- “In these subjects, teachers do not check what pupils already understand well enough so that they know what pupils need to learn next.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 24 July 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) | 62% | 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: 87 first-preference applications, 87 offers in total, 87 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.
- West Hill Primary Academy 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Our Lady's Catholic Primary School, Dartford 0.9 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Holy Trinity Church of England Primary School, Dartford 1.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Westgate Primary School 1.0 mi School remains Good (Improving) - S5 Next Last distance published
- Maypole Primary School 1.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Wilmington Primary School 1.1 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Oakfield Primary Academy 1.2 mi Good Last distance published
- Joydens Wood Infant School 1.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published