Priory Fields School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 4–11 · Dover, Kent
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
5.586 miles
Published by Kent County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2023–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Priory Fields 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 9 May 2024. Kent has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2023 to 2026 entry.
Priory Fields 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 | 5.586 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 5.586 miles away, the 78th longest of 434 Kent primary schools with a published last distance (middle figure 2.24 miles).
- 2024/25 reading, writing and maths: 53% met the expected standard (England 62%), 3rd lowest of 8 schools: this one and the 7 of the 8 nearest primary schools in Kent that have results.
- For Reception 2026, there were 32 first-choice applications for 32 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
- 64.9% of pupils were eligible for free school meals; the middle figure across the 8 nearest primary schools in Kent is 54.9%.
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
- Astor Avenue, Dover, CT17 0FS
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- Kent
- Pupils on roll
- 319 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 64.9% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 15.9
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 9 May 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils enjoy learning, behave well and are happy and confident at this welcoming school.”
- “One parent, reflecting the views of others, commented: ‘There is always a friendly smiling face to greet every pupil when they arrive at school, which surely sets them up in a positive frame of mind at the start of the day.’”
- “Pupils know and demonstrate the values of the school, which are represented by ‘aspirational ant’, ‘adventurous aardvark’, ‘respectful rabbit’, ‘open-minded octopus’, ‘collaborative cat’, ‘responsible raccoon’ and ‘happy hippo’.”
To improve
- “The school has rightly identified that this could be more effective and consistent.”
- “Importantly, checking and addressing pupils’ misconceptions does not always happen as well as it could.”
- “This means that some pupils are not achieving as well as they might.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 12 June 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) | 53% | 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: 32 first-preference applications, 32 offers in total, 32 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.
- Vale View Community School 0.3 mi Good Last distance published
- St Martin's School 0.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- White Cliffs Primary and Nursery School 0.5 mi Good Last distance published
- Barton Junior School 0.6 mi School remains Good
- Charlton Church of England Primary School 0.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Richard's Catholic Primary School 0.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Shatterlocks Infant and Nursery School 0.8 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Dover, St Mary's Church of England Primary School 0.9 mi Not judged Last distance published