Loose Primary School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 3–11 · Maidstone, Kent
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
5.804 miles
Published by Kent County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2023–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Loose Primary School is a primary school in Maidstone, Kent for ages 3–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 27 June 2023. Kent has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2023 to 2026 entry.
Loose 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 | 5.804 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 last child offered a Reception place in 2026 lived 5.804 miles away, the 75th longest of 434 Kent primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance.
- The 2026 Reception last distance was further from the school than in 2025 and 2023, and the 2026 figure was the longest of the 4 years with a published distance.
- 2026 Reception entry saw 81 first-choice applications for 90 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 9 offers went to families ranking it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 74% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%); 6% 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
- Loose Road, Maidstone, ME15 9UW
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Kent
- Pupils on roll
- 662 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 10.6% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 25
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 27 June 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils enjoy coming to this school, describing it as ‘a wonderful place where we trust our teachers to help us if we are worried or sad’.”
- “Behaviour in and around school is calm and purposeful.”
- “Routines for pupils’ future learning habits are established early in the inspiring early years environment.”
To improve
- “In these newer areas of the curriculum, knowledge is not yet securely embedded in pupils’ long-term memories.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 14 September 2023 (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) | 74% | 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: 81 first-preference applications, 90 offers in total, 81 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.
- Tiger Primary School 0.6 mi Good Last distance published
- Leigh Academy Oaks 0.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Leigh Academy Molehill 1.1 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Boughton Monchelsea Primary School 1.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Park Way Primary School 1.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Coxheath Primary School 1.3 mi Good Last distance published
- South Borough Primary School 1.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Archbishop Courtenay Primary School 1.5 mi Good Last distance published