Kilnwood Vale Primary School
Primary · Free schools · Ages 2–11 · Horsham, West Sussex
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
1.30 miles
Published by West Sussex County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2023–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Kilnwood Vale Primary School is a primary school in Horsham, West Sussex for ages 2–11 (free schools). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 5 December 2023. West Sussex has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2023 to 2026 entry.
Kilnwood Vale 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 | 1.30 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
- Reception 2026 had 51 first-choice applications for 56 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 5 offers went to families ranking it second or lower.
- The last child offered a Reception place in 2026 lived 1.30 miles away, the 43rd shortest of 87 West Sussex primary schools with a published last distance.
- Its Reception last distance was about the same in 2026 as in 2025 and further than in 2023, and the 2026 figure was the longest of the 3 years.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other West Sussex schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Calvert Link, Faygate, Horsham, RH12 0BZ
- Type
- Free schools
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–11
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- West Sussex
- Pupils on roll
- 382 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 8.1% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 23.1
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 5 December 2023
Strengths
- “The school’s vision to ‘inspire, nurture, enable’ is lived out daily by pupils throughout all aspects of their learning.”
- “There is a warm and welcoming environment where pupils keenly greet visitors and share their positive experiences of the education provided.”
- “In lessons and around the school, pupils behave well.”
To improve
- “In some subjects, however, the changes to the curriculum are still new.”
- “This means pupils have gaps in knowledge which are not always identified as quickly as they need to be.”
- “The achievement of some pupils at the end of key stage 1 reflects the need for the changes that are now being put in place.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 30 January 2024 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 51 first-preference applications, 56 offers in total, 51 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 West Sussex.
- The Bewbush Academy 0.7 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Waterfield Primary School 0.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Gossops Green Primary 1.2 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Seymour Primary School 1.4 mi Improved significantly Last distance published
- Colgate Primary School 1.4 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- The Mill Primary Academy 1.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Broadfield Primary Academy 1.7 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Hilltop Primary School 1.8 mi School remains Good (Improving) - S5 Next Last distance published