St Margaret Clitherow Catholic Primary School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 4–11 · Tonbridge, Kent
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
1.64 miles
Published by Kent County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2023–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
St Margaret Clitherow Catholic Primary School is a primary school in Tonbridge, Kent for ages 4–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 1 November 2022. Kent has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2023 to 2026 entry.
St Margaret Clitherow Catholic 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 | 1.64 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 1.64 miles away, the 172nd shortest of 434 Kent primary schools with a published last distance (middle figure 2.24 miles).
- Reception 2026 had 33 first-choice applications for 37 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place and 4 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 86% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), the highest of 9 schools: this one and 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
- Trench Road, Tonbridge, TN11 9NG
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Council
- Kent
- Pupils on roll
- 367 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 10.6% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 22.5
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 1 November 2022
Strengths
- “All pupils are warmly welcomed into this inclusive, friendly school.”
- “Parents and carers appreciate the school’s community atmosphere, which helps pupils to feel secure and valued.”
- “The school’s religious values provide a structured framework for pupils and staff.”
To improve
- “Leaders are now rightly focusing on ensuring clarity about how learning in other year groups builds securely on what children have learned in Reception Year.”
- “Leaders are now rightly focusing on securing the same clarity in other subjects, such as science and mathematics.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 8 December 2022 (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) | 86% | 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: 33 first-preference applications, 37 offers in total, 33 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.
- Long Mead Community Primary School 0.3 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Cage Green Primary School 0.6 mi Good Last distance published
- Woodlands Primary School 1.0 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Stocks Green Primary School 1.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Hildenborough Church of England Primary School 1.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Slade Primary School and Attached Unit for Children with Hearing Impairment 1.3 mi Good Last distance published
- Sussex Road Community Primary School 1.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Shipbourne School 1.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published