Skinners' Kent Primary School
Primary · Academy sponsor led · Ages 4–11 · Tunbridge Wells, Kent
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.422 miles
Published by Kent County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2023–2025 trend 🔒
Skinners' Kent Primary School is a primary school in Tunbridge Wells, Kent for ages 4–11 (academy sponsor led). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 7 February 2024. Kent has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2023 to 2026 entry.
Skinners' Kent 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 | 0.422 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 2026 place lived 0.422 miles away, the 26th shortest of 434 Kent primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance.
- That 2026 Reception distance was about the same as in 2025 and further than in 2023, after swinging sharply between some years, most from 2024 to 2025.
- Reception 2026 had 40 first-choice applications for 30 offers; 28 offers went to first-choice families, and 12 first-choice families (30%) were not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 59% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%) and 17% 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
- The Avenue, Knights Wood, Tunbridge Wells, TN2 3GS
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- Kent
- Pupils on roll
- 212 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 18.4% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 21.6
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 7 February 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils and their families feel valued and supported at Skinners’ Kent Primary School.”
- “Pupils are known individually and cared for by staff and their peers alike.”
- “They learn about what it means to be a good school friend.”
To improve
- “However, because the school has carefully prioritised its work on the curriculum to take account of teachers’ workload, work to develop teachers’ subject knowledge in a small number of subjects is at an earlier stage.”
- “For example, while pupils have benefited from an increased whole-school focus on music this academic year and enjoy their regular music lessons, teachers do not always explain key learning as well as they might.”
- “This means that pupils do not achieve as well as they could.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 18 March 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) | 59% | 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: 40 first-preference applications, 30 offers in total, 28 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.
- Skinners' Temple Grove 0.8 mi Some aspects not as strong Last distance published
- St Matthew's High Brooms Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School 0.9 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
- St John's Church of England Primary School 1.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Augustine's Catholic Primary School 1.3 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Barnabas CofE VA Primary School 1.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Pembury School 1.5 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- St James' Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School 1.6 mi Good Last distance published
- Southborough CofE Primary School 1.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published