Vale View Community School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 2–11 · Dover, Kent
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.701 miles
Published by Kent County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2023–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Vale View Community School is a primary school in Dover, Kent for ages 2–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 26 April 2022. Kent has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2023 to 2026 entry.
Vale View Community 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 | 0.701 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
- 64.4% of pupils are eligible for free school meals; the middle figure across the 8 nearest primary schools in Kent is 54.9%.
- In 2026 the last child offered a Reception place lived 0.701 miles away, 76th shortest of 434 Kent primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance.
- For Reception 2026: 13 first-choice applications for 15 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 2 offers went to families ranking it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 60% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 4% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
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
- Vale View Road, Elms Vale, Dover, CT17 9NP
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–11
- Council
- Kent
- Pupils on roll
- 222 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 64.4% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 24.7
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 26 April 2022
Strengths
- “Vale View Community School is a welcoming and supportive place for pupils and their families.”
- “The school is a calm, caring community where pupils get on well together at work and at play.”
- “They value the friendships they make at school.”
To improve
- “Before the school joined the multi-academy trust, there had been a concerning decline in its performance.”
- “The impact of the hard work everyone does is not always clearly identified.”
- “Senior leaders need to show that initiatives for improvement are making a difference for different groups of pupils.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 16 June 2022 (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) | 60% | 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: 13 first-preference applications, 15 offers in total, 13 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.
- Priory Fields School 0.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Martin's School 0.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- White Cliffs Primary and Nursery School 0.6 mi Good Last distance published
- Barton Junior School 0.8 mi School remains Good
- Charlton Church of England Primary School 0.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Aycliffe Community Primary School 0.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Richard's Catholic Primary School 0.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Shatterlocks Infant and Nursery School 1.0 mi Standards maintained Last distance published