Lime Wood Primary School
Primary · Free schools · Ages 4–11 · Erith, Bexley
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From London Borough of Bexley · offers on 16 April 2026
2022–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Lime Wood Primary School is a primary school in Erith, Bexley for ages 4–11 (free schools). Bexley has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2022 to 2026 entry.
Lime Wood 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 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2023 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2022 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- Every Reception 2026 applicant was offered a place, as at 27 of the 43 other Bexley primary schools with a published Reception 2026 outcome.
- Before 2026, places ran out in 1 of the 3 earlier Reception years with a published outcome.
- For Reception 2026 there were 49 first-choice applications for 52 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 3 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- Free school meal eligibility is 29.2% of pupils, while the middle figure across the 8 nearest primary schools in Bexley is 24.4%.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Bexley schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- 2 Sandy Road, Erith, DA8 1FJ
- Type
- Free schools
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- Bexley
- Pupils on roll
- 192 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 29.2% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 21.3
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
No Ofsted grade Inspected 12 May 2026
Strengths
- “Pupils arrive at Lime Wood eager to begin their day and are greeted warmly by staff who know them well.”
- “Pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) receive the time and space they need to settle so they can start learning calmly and confidently.”
- “Relationships between pupils and staff are nurturing, respectful and built on trust.”
To improve
- “The school should sustain, and where appropriate, refine its purposeful approaches to evaluating its work, so that all those involved in leadership, including governors, maintain a sharp understanding of the school’s strengths and areas for development.”
- “Leaders should build on their highly effective work to nurture an inclusive ethos, underpinned by high standards of behaviour, by further fostering awareness and understanding of factors that can affect pupils’ behaviour and emotions.”
Safeguarding: met
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 30 June 2026 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 49 first-preference applications, 52 offers in total, 49 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 Bexley.
- St Fidelis Catholic Primary School 0.3 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Christ Church (Erith) CofE Primary School 0.5 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Belvedere Infant School 0.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Belvedere Junior School 0.6 mi Standards maintained
- Lessness Heath Primary School 0.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Northumberland Heath Primary School 0.7 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Barnehurst Infant School 0.9 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Barnehurst Junior School 0.9 mi Outstanding