Halfway Houses Primary School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 4–11 · Sheerness, Kent
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
5.543 miles
Published by Kent County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2023–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Halfway Houses Primary School is a primary school in Sheerness, Kent for ages 4–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 13 March 2024. Kent has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2023 to 2026 entry.
Halfway Houses 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 | 5.543 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, 72% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), the 3rd highest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest primary schools in Kent.
- In 2026 the last Reception place went to a child living 5.543 miles away, the 80th longest of 434 Kent primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance.
- Every applicant was offered a place in 1 of the 3 years with a published Reception outcome, and the 2026 distance was about the same as in 2023.
- For Reception 2026 there were 48 first-choice applications for 48 offers, with 60 places published, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
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
- Danley Road, Minster-on-Sea, Sheerness, ME12 3AP
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- Kent
- Pupils on roll
- 498 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 35.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 22.8
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 13 March 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils enjoy learning in this school.”
- “They benefit from a thoughtfully designed curriculum and achieve well.”
- “Pupils know the importance of the school’s ‘ROAR’ values of resilience, optimism, ambition and responsibility.”
To improve
- “However, in some subjects, the tasks selected for pupils to complete do not always help them to learn as well as they could.”
- “However, some amendments to learning to help meet the individual needs of pupils are not always as well considered as they could be.”
- “When this happens, some pupils with SEND can find it more difficult to learn important knowledge and skills.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 2 May 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) | 72% | 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: 48 first-preference applications, 48 offers in total, 48 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.
- Richmond Primary School 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Thistle Hill Academy 1.1 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Queenborough School and Nursery 1.2 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- West Minster Primary School 1.2 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Minster in Sheppey Primary School 1.3 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Rose Street Primary School 1.3 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St Edward's Catholic Primary School 1.4 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St Georges CofE (Aided) Primary School 1.8 mi Good Last distance published