Shatterlocks Infant and Nursery School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 3–7 · Dover, Kent
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
1.407 miles
Published by Kent County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2023–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Shatterlocks Infant and Nursery School is a primary school in Dover, Kent for ages 3–7 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Standards maintained, from the inspection on 8 May 2025. Kent has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2023 to 2026 entry.
Shatterlocks Infant 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 | 1.407 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
- Ofsted found standards maintained on 8 May 2025; its previous graded outcome, from 15 May 2019, was Outstanding.
- Reception 2026's last place went to a child 1.407 miles away, 143rd shortest of 434 Kent primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance (middle figure 2.24 miles).
- Reception 2026 drew 41 first-choice applications for 42 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 1 offer went to a family who ranked it second or lower.
- Pupils eligible for free school meals make up 35.5%, below the middle figure of 55% 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
- Heathfield Avenue, Heathfield Avenue. Dover Kent, Dover, CT16 2PB
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–7
- Council
- Kent
- Pupils on roll
- 138 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 35.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 16.7
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Standards maintained Inspected 8 May 2025
Strengths
- “Pupils bounce happily into school each morning.”
- “They enjoy learning and playing with their friends.”
- “They look forward to the exciting range of events the school provides.”
To improve
- “In some subjects, the curriculum is sometimes very broad and wide ranging.”
- “This makes it harder for teachers to identify the most important knowledge and understanding for pupils, and check that they have remembered it over time This means that sometimes pupils do not gain and remember the key knowledge they need for successful future learning, as well as they could.”
- “Since the pandemic, there has been more pupil absence.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 18 June 2025 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 41 first-preference applications, 42 offers in total, 41 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.
- Barton Junior School 0.4 mi School remains Good
- Green Park Community Primary School 0.5 mi School remains Outstanding (Concerns) - S5 Next Last distance published
- Charlton Church of England Primary School 0.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- White Cliffs Primary and Nursery School 0.5 mi Good Last distance published
- St Richard's Catholic Primary School 0.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Priory Fields School 0.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Guston Church of England Primary School 1.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Vale View Community School 1.0 mi Good Last distance published