Salmestone Primary School
Primary · Academy sponsor led · Ages 3–11 · Margate, Kent
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.477 miles
Published by Kent County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2023–2025 trend 🔒
Salmestone Primary School is a primary school in Margate, Kent for ages 3–11 (academy sponsor led). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Standards maintained, from the inspection on 16 October 2024. Kent has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2023 to 2026 entry.
Salmestone 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 | 0.477 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
- Its Reception 2026 last distance offered, 0.477 miles, was the 38th shortest of 434 Kent primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance; the middle was 2.24 miles.
- Reception 2026 had 28 first-choice applications for 30 offers; 26 offers went to first-choice families and 2 first-choice families (7%) were not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 66% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), while 3% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- There are 24.4 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 19.2 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
- College Road, Margate, CT9 4DB
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Kent
- Pupils on roll
- 216 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 50.9% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 24.4
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Standards maintained Inspected 16 October 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils are proud of their school and see it as a close, family community.”
- “Staff work hard here to support pupils and their families.”
- “The pastoral care is strong, though does not come at the expense of high aspirations for pupils to achieve academically.”
To improve
- “However, there is some inconsistency across the school in how staff design and adapt learning tasks for pupils.”
- “This means that, on occasion, chances to move learning on are missed, or pupils are not as fully engaged in learning as they might be.”
- “Despite this being a happy place, rates of absence are too high.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 25 November 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) | 66% | 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: 28 first-preference applications, 30 offers in total, 26 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 0.2 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Margate, Holy Trinity and St John's Church of England Primary School 0.5 mi Good Last distance published
- Drapers Mills Primary Academy 0.5 mi School remains Good (Concerns) - S5 Next Last distance published
- Garlinge Primary School and Nursery 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Cliftonville Primary School 1.2 mi Good Last distance published
- Northdown Primary School 1.2 mi Good Last distance published
- Palm Bay Primary School 1.8 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St Crispin's Infant School 2.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published