White Cliffs Primary and Nursery School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 2–11 · Dover, Kent
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.314 miles
Published by Kent County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2023–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
White Cliffs Primary and Nursery School is a primary school in Dover, Kent for ages 2–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 8 May 2024. Kent has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2023 to 2026 entry.
White Cliffs Primary and Nursery 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 | 0.314 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 2026 the last child offered a place lived 0.314 miles away, the 14th shortest of 434 Kent primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance.
- There were 36 first-choice applications for 30 Reception offers in 2026; all 30 went to first-choice families, and 6 first-choice families (17%) were not offered a place.
- Ofsted judged it Good on 8 May 2024; 7 of the 8 nearest primary schools in Kent are also rated Good.
- In 2024/25, 57% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 0% 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
- St Radigund's Road, Dover, CT17 0LB
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–11
- Council
- Kent
- Pupils on roll
- 277 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 54.9% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 20.3
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 8 May 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils develop high aspirations at this caring school.”
- “They learn how to express their opinions confidently and know that staff will listen to them.”
- “Teachers encourage pupils to have high ambitions and help them to meet them.”
To improve
- “Teachers’ checks of pupils’ knowledge are not always effective.”
- “However, in some wider curriculum subjects, pupils’ knowledge is not checked carefully enough.”
- “As a result, gaps in knowledge are not identified consistently well.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 24 June 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) | 57% | 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: 36 first-preference applications, 30 offers in total, 30 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.
- Priory Fields School 0.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Shatterlocks Infant and Nursery School 0.5 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- St Martin's School 0.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Vale View Community School 0.6 mi Good Last distance published
- Barton Junior School 0.7 mi School remains Good
- Charlton Church of England Primary School 0.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Green Park Community Primary School 0.9 mi School remains Outstanding (Concerns) - S5 Next Last distance published
- St Richard's Catholic Primary School 1.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published