The Oaks Infant School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 3–7 · Sittingbourne, Kent
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
1.021 miles
Published by Kent County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2023–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
The Oaks Infant School is a primary school in Sittingbourne, Kent for ages 3–7 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 24 November 2021. Kent has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2023 to 2026 entry.
The Oaks 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 | 1.021 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 place offered went to a child living 1.021 miles away, 108th shortest of 434 Kent primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance.
- The Reception last distance swung sharply, with the biggest move from 2025 to 2026, and the 2026 figure was the shortest of the 3 years with a published distance.
- Reception 2026 drew 106 first-choice applications for 89 offers; 82 offers went to first-choice families and 24 first-choice families (23%) were not offered a place.
- Free school meal eligibility stands at 11.5% of pupils, against a middle figure of 34.9% 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
- Gore Court Road, Sittingbourne, ME10 1GL
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–7
- Council
- Kent
- Pupils on roll
- 312 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 11.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 17.4
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 24 November 2021
Strengths
- “Pupils are well supported in this warm, inclusive and ambitious school.”
- “The curriculum is exciting and engaging.”
- “Pupils thoroughly enjoy their learning.”
To improve
- “This precision is not always reflected in the work pupils produce in the wider foundation subjects.”
- “However, pupils do not always have regular opportunities to talk about their learning and to practise using this vocabulary.”
- “Leaders are taking appropriate action to ensure that the teaching of writing in the foundation subjects is as effective as it is in the English curriculum.”
Safeguarding: met
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 21 September 2026 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 106 first-preference applications, 89 offers in total, 82 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.
- Minterne Junior School 0.1 mi No Ofsted grade
- St Peter's Catholic Primary School 0.1 mi Good Last distance published
- Westlands Primary School 0.4 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Tunstall Church of England (Aided) Primary School 0.6 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- South Avenue Primary School 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Canterbury Road Primary School 1.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Grove Park Primary School 1.3 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Milton Court Primary Academy 1.3 mi Standards maintained Last distance published