Stella Maris Catholic Primary School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 4–11 · Folkestone, Kent
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.679 miles
Published by Kent County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2023–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Stella Maris Catholic Primary School is a primary school in Folkestone, Kent for ages 4–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 21 June 2023. Kent has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2023 to 2026 entry.
Stella Maris 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 | 0.679 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 Reception 2026 the last child offered a place lived 0.679 miles away, 74th shortest of 434 Kent primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance (middle 2.24 miles).
- 2024/25 results: 61% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), 5th highest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest primary schools in Kent.
- Reception 2026 drew 23 first-choice applications for 25 offers, every first-choice family was offered a place, and the 2026 last distance was the longest of the 4 years.
- Among pupils, 15.2% qualify for free school meals, against a middle figure of 46.7% 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
- Parkfield Road, Folkestone, CT19 5BY
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Council
- Kent
- Pupils on roll
- 204 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 15.2% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 23.2
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 21 June 2023
Strengths
- “There is an exceptionally strong sense of community and family at Stella Maris.”
- “Staff, pupils and families forge strong connections in order to ensure that pupils do well.”
- “Parents and carers commented on the school’s ‘loving, nurturing and supportive’ feel, being ‘like one big family’ and commented that their children ‘flourish’ and ‘thrive’ in its care.”
To improve
- “However, there has not yet been the same identification of the specific points of knowledge that pupils need and how these connect together.”
- “As a result, while pupils can talk confidently about what they know from their most recent learning, they cannot yet connect this securely to what they have learned before, or securely retain that knowledge over time.”
- “However, this is not yet as fully developed in some other subjects.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 15 September 2023 (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) | 61% | 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: 23 first-preference applications, 25 offers in total, 23 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.
- Mundella Primary School 0.3 mi Good Last distance published
- Christ Church Cep Academy, Folkestone 0.4 mi Good Last distance published
- Folkestone Primary 0.4 mi Good Last distance published
- Castle Hill Community Primary School 0.6 mi Good Last distance published
- St Eanswythe's Church of England Primary School 0.7 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Folkestone, St Peter's Church of England Primary School 0.8 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Morehall Primary School and Nursery 0.9 mi Improved significantly Last distance published
- Folkestone St. Mary's Church of England Primary Academy 1.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published