St Richard's Catholic Primary School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 4–11 · Dover, Kent
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
1.91 miles
Published by Kent County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2023–2025 trend 🔒
St Richard's Catholic Primary School is a primary school in Dover, Kent for ages 4–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 6 October 2022. Kent has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2023 to 2026 entry.
St Richard's 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 | 1.91 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 2026 Reception last distance offered, 1.91 miles, was further than in 2024 and the 198th shortest of 434 Kent primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance.
- For Reception 2026 there were 25 first-choice applications for 26 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 1 offer went to a family ranking it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 69% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 0% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- Its 2024/25 reading, writing and maths figure was the highest of 7 schools: this one and the 6 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
- Castle Avenue, Dover, CT16 1EZ
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Council
- Kent
- Pupils on roll
- 191 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 32.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 21.2
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 6 October 2022
Strengths
- “Pupils are happy at school and enjoy learning.”
- “They describe St Richard’s as a ‘kind, respectful, exciting, fun and beautiful place to be, where we are loved.”
- “Pupils thrive in a caring environment.”
To improve
- “After the previous inspection, there was a significant decline in the school’s performance.”
- “However, this is not as consistent in a few subjects as it is in English, mathematics and science.”
- “On occasion, what children know in Reception is not always consistently acknowledged in the curriculum thinking as they move into subject learning in key stage 1.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 24 November 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) | 69% | 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: 25 first-preference applications, 26 offers in total, 25 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.
- Charlton Church of England Primary School 0.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Barton Junior School 0.4 mi School remains Good
- Dover, St Mary's Church of England Primary School 0.5 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Guston Church of England Primary School 0.6 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Priory Fields School 0.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Shatterlocks Infant and Nursery School 0.7 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Vale View Community School 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- White Cliffs Primary and Nursery School 1.0 mi Good Last distance published