Beaver Green Primary School
Primary · Academy sponsor led · Ages 2–11 · Ashford, Kent
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
9.175 miles
Published by Kent County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2023–2025 trend 🔒
Beaver Green Primary School is a primary school in Ashford, Kent for ages 2–11 (academy sponsor led). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 14 March 2023. Kent has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2023 to 2026 entry.
Beaver Green 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 | 9.175 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 2024/25, 63% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 7% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- For Reception 2026, the last child offered a place lived 9.175 miles away, the 43rd longest of 434 Kent primary schools with a published last distance (middle figure 2.24 miles).
- Reception 2026 had 54 first-choice applications for 55 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 1 offer went to a family who ranked it second or lower.
- 48.9% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 21.1% 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
- Cuckoo Lane, Ashford, TN23 5DA
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–11
- Council
- Kent
- Pupils on roll
- 483 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 48.9% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 21
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 14 March 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils rise to staff’s high expectations at Beaver Green, right from the start of nursery.”
- “Leaders are determined that all pupils are included and succeed here.”
- “Pupils talk positively about the interesting subjects that they study and they work hard in lessons.”
To improve
- “However, in a few subjects, some staff do not have strong subject expertise.”
- “Here, pupils do not learn as effectively or as efficiently as they could.”
- “However, some disadvantaged pupils do not have such a firm understanding on which to build their knowledge.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 17 May 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) | 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: 54 first-preference applications, 55 offers in total, 54 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.
- The John Wesley Church of England Methodist Voluntary Aided Primary School 0.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Great Chart Primary School 0.4 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- St Simon of England Roman Catholic Primary School, Ashford 0.5 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Ashford Oaks Community Primary School 0.5 mi Good Last distance published
- Chilmington Green Primary School 1.1 mi Good Last distance published
- Victoria Road Primary School 1.1 mi Good Last distance published
- Godinton Primary School 1.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Kingsnorth Church of England Primary School 1.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published