Cliftonville Primary School
Primary · Academy sponsor led · Ages 3–11 · Margate, Kent
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
1.58 miles
Published by Kent County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2023–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Cliftonville Primary School is a primary school in Margate, Kent for ages 3–11 (academy sponsor led). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 25 June 2024. Kent has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2023 to 2026 entry.
Cliftonville 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 | 1.58 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 2026, the last child offered a Reception place lived 1.58 miles away, the 166th shortest of the 434 Kent primary schools with a published last distance.
- Reception 2026 had 108 first-choice applications for 120 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 12 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 44% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of primary school (England 62%); 9% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- The 2024/25 reading, writing and maths result was the 2nd lowest of 8 schools: this one and the 7 of the 8 nearest primary schools in Kent that have results.
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
- Northumberland Avenue, Cliftonville, Margate, CT9 3LY
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Kent
- Pupils on roll
- 845 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 49.1% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 18.5
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 25 June 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils thrive in the care of staff at Cliftonville Primary School.”
- “Strong relationships are the foundation of their experience, and pupils treat staff and one another with respect.”
- “Parents reference the ‘lovely community atmosphere’ and the ‘brilliant pastoral support’ that their children receive.”
To improve
- “Pupils taking national tests in 2023 did not achieve as well as they could have done.”
- “However, this is not as consistently strong across all lessons.”
- “Key stage 2 outcomes in the 2023 national tests were disappointing, with reading and mathematics performing below national expectations.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 18 July 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) | 44% | 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: 108 first-preference applications, 120 offers in total, 108 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.
- Northdown Primary School 0.3 mi Good Last distance published
- Palm Bay Primary School 0.6 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Drapers Mills Primary Academy 0.7 mi School remains Good (Concerns) - S5 Next Last distance published
- Margate, Holy Trinity and St John's Church of England Primary School 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Salmestone Primary School 1.2 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- St Gregory's Catholic Primary School, Margate 1.3 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Callis Grange Nursery and Infant School 1.3 mi Good Last distance published
- St Peter-in-Thanet CofE Junior School 1.4 mi Outstanding