Godinton Primary School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 4–11 · Ashford, Kent
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
9.371 miles
Published by Kent County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2023–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Godinton Primary School is a primary school in Ashford, Kent for ages 4–11 (academy converter). 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.
Godinton 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 | 9.371 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 Reception 2026 last distance offered was 9.371 miles, the 42nd longest of the 434 Kent primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance (middle figure 2.24 miles).
- The Reception last distance swung sharply, moving further out in 2026 than in 2025; every applicant was offered a place in 1 of the 3 published years.
- Reception 2026 had 56 first-choice applications for 59 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 3 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- 63% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths in 2024/25 (England 62%), the 3rd 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
- Lockholt Close, Ashford, TN23 3JR
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- Kent
- Pupils on roll
- 417 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 17.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 24.2
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 7 February 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils are proud to be part of their happy school community.”
- “Relationships between adults and children are respectful and trusting.”
- “This is in keeping with the school’s ‘STAR’ (Showing Tolerance and Respect) values.”
To improve
- “In a few subjects, the school has not yet precisely identified some of the key knowledge they want pupils to learn.”
- “This leads to some inconsistencies in how well the staff teach the curriculum in these subjects.”
- “Gaps in pupils’ understanding can lead to some difficulties in applying what should have already been learned to new and interesting topics.”
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) | 63% | 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: 56 first-preference applications, 59 offers in total, 56 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.
- Repton Manor Primary School 0.5 mi Good Last distance published
- Ashford, St Mary's Church of England Primary School 0.9 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- St Teresa's Catholic Primary School 1.0 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Ashford Oaks Community Primary School 1.0 mi Good Last distance published
- Great Chart Primary School 1.0 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- St Simon of England Roman Catholic Primary School, Ashford 1.2 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Victoria Road Primary School 1.2 mi Good Last distance published
- Beaver Green Primary School 1.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published