Sandown School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 4–11 · Deal, Kent
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
37.971 miles
Published by Kent County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2023–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Sandown 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 20 September 2023. Kent has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2023 to 2026 entry.
Sandown 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 | 37.971 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 37.971 miles away, the 7th longest of 434 Kent primary schools with a published last distance (middle figure 2.24 miles).
- Every applicant was offered a place in 1 of the 2 Reception years with a published outcome, 2023 and 2026.
- For Reception 2026, there were 41 first-choice applications for 44 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place and 3 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- 2024/25: 50% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), the 4th lowest of 9 schools: this one and 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
- Golf Road, Deal, CT14 6PY
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- Kent
- Pupils on roll
- 348 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 31% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 19.6
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 20 September 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils here are happy, kind and courteous.”
- “Staff set ambitious aims for pupils’ learning, and pupils do their best to fulfil these.”
- “From early years, children follow clear routines, and they know what is expected of them.”
To improve
- “Sometimes, teachers do not address pupils’ misconceptions and errors consistently enough.”
- “This means that some pupils do not always achieve as well as they could.”
- “In Reception, some children struggle at first with whole-class activities.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 20 October 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) | 50% | 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: 41 first-preference applications, 44 offers in total, 41 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.
- Warden House Primary School 1.0 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Deal Parochial Church of England Primary School 1.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Sholden Church of England Primary School 1.2 mi Good Last distance published
- Hornbeam Primary School 1.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- The Downs Church of England Primary School 1.5 mi Good Last distance published
- St Mary's Catholic Primary School 1.5 mi Good Last distance published
- Worth Primary School 2.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Kingsdown and Ringwould Church of England Primary School 3.0 mi Outstanding Last distance published