Hornbeam Primary School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 4–11 · Deal, Kent
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
1.539 miles
Published by Kent County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2023–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Hornbeam Primary School is a primary school in Deal, Kent for ages 4–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 11 October 2023. Kent has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2023 to 2026 entry.
Hornbeam 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 | 1.539 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
- In 2026 the last child offered a Reception place lived 1.539 miles away, the 161st shortest of the 434 Kent primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance.
- That distance was about the same as in 2025 and further than in 2023, with the biggest swing coming between 2023 and 2025.
- Reception 2026 drew 20 first-choice applications for 21 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 1 offer went to a family who ranked it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 58% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 0% 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
- Mongeham Road, Deal, CT14 9PQ
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- Kent
- Pupils on roll
- 207 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 36.2% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 20.2
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 11 October 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils are happy, and the majority of them attend school regularly.”
- “They are polite, respectful and confident.”
- “Pupils are eager to talk about their learning and the range of activities in which they are involved.”
To improve
- “However, some of the lesson activities for other pupils do not always match the planned curriculum closely enough.”
- “This is because staff are not always clear about what knowledge is the most important.”
- “They do not always check carefully enough what pupils know and can do and therefore cannot adapt their teaching to ensure that pupils are learning consistently well in those areas.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 15 November 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) | 58% | 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: 20 first-preference applications, 21 offers in total, 20 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.
- Sholden Church of England Primary School 0.2 mi Good Last distance published
- Warden House Primary School 0.3 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St Mary's Catholic Primary School 0.5 mi Good Last distance published
- Deal Parochial Church of England Primary School 1.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- The Downs Church of England Primary School 1.1 mi Good Last distance published
- Sandown School 1.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Northbourne Church of England Primary School 2.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Kingsdown and Ringwould Church of England Primary School 2.5 mi Outstanding Last distance published