Tenterden Infant School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 5–11 · Tenterden, Kent
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
11.024 miles
Published by Kent County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2023–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Tenterden Infant School is a primary school in Tenterden, Kent for ages 5–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 10 July 2024. Kent has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2023 to 2026 entry.
Tenterden Infant 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 | 11.024 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 11.024 miles, the 34th longest of 434 Kent primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance; the middle figure was 2.24 miles.
- For Reception 2026 there were 24 first-choice applications for 28 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 4 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- 31.5% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 27.2% 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
- Recreation Ground Road, Tenterden, TN30 6RA
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 5–11
- Council
- Kent
- Pupils on roll
- 124 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 31.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 19.7
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 10 July 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils delight in attending this school.”
- “They enjoy spending time with one another and form positive friendships.”
- “One parent commented, ‘every day my child eagerly skips into school to see her teachers and friends, filled with excitement.”
To improve
- “However, the progression of knowledge and skills is less refined in some subjects across key stage 1, such as art and design, and design and technology.”
- “As a result, teachers are not always clear about the key knowledge that pupils need to learn and retain.”
- “This means that some pupils can struggle to recall what they have learned.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 13 September 2024 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 24 first-preference applications, 28 offers in total, 24 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.
- Tenterden Church of England Junior School 0.0 mi Not judged
- St Michael's Church of England Primary School 1.4 mi Not judged Last distance published
- High Halden Church of England Primary School 2.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Rolvenden Primary School 2.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Woodchurch Church of England Primary School 3.6 mi Good Last distance published
- John Mayne Church of England Primary School 3.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Wittersham Church of England Primary School 4.0 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Benenden Church of England Primary School 4.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published