Cage Green Primary School
Primary · Academy sponsor led · Ages 4–11 · Tonbridge, Kent
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
1.718 miles
Published by Kent County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2023–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Cage Green Primary School is a primary school in Tonbridge, Kent for ages 4–11 (academy sponsor led). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 8 November 2023. Kent has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2023 to 2026 entry.
Cage Green 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 | 1.718 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 2024/25, 57% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), while 17% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
- The last child offered a Reception place in 2026 lived 1.718 miles away, 180th shortest of 434 Kent primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance (middle 2.24 miles).
- For Reception 2026 there were 27 first-choice applications for 30 offers; 25 offers went to first-choice families and 2 first-choice families (7%) were not offered a place.
- 52.4% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 16.2% 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
- Cage Green Road, Tonbridge, TN10 4PT
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- Kent
- Pupils on roll
- 208 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 52.4% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 15.2
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 8 November 2023
Strengths
- “‘I love Cage Green and I know Cage Green loves me,’ was how one pupil explained what it is like to attend this happy, friendly and successful school.”
- “From a young age, pupils embrace these and aspire to meet them.”
- “They become confident, well-rounded and respectful individuals.”
To improve
- “The school is still striving to overcome a legacy of weaker past practice that still shows in aspects of the key stage 2 test results.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 15 December 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) | 57% | 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: 27 first-preference applications, 30 offers in total, 25 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.
- Woodlands Primary School 0.4 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Long Mead Community Primary School 0.6 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St Margaret Clitherow Catholic Primary School 0.6 mi Good Last distance published
- Slade Primary School and Attached Unit for Children with Hearing Impairment 1.2 mi Good Last distance published
- Stocks Green Primary School 1.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Royal Rise Primary School 1.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Sussex Road Community Primary School 1.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Hildenborough Church of England Primary School 1.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published