Haberdashers' Crayford Primary
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 3–11 · Dartford, Bexley
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.661 miles
Published by London Borough of Bexley · offers on 16 April 2026
2017–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Haberdashers' Crayford Primary is a primary school in Dartford, Bexley for ages 3–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 12 March 2024. Bexley has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2017 to 2026 entry.
Haberdashers' Crayford Primary 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 | 0.661 mi |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2023 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2022 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2021 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2020 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2019 | 🔒 With a pass |
And 2 earlier figures.
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- For Reception in 2026, the last child offered a place lived 0.661 miles away, the 8th shortest of 16 Bexley primary schools with a published last distance.
- The 2026 Reception figure was the longest of the 5 years with a published distance, and further than in 2017; it swung sharply between some years.
- Reception in 2026 had 33 first-choice applications for 30 offers; 30 offers went to first-choice families, and 3 first-choice families were not offered a place.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Bexley schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Iron Mill Lane, Crayford, Dartford, DA1 4RS
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Bexley
- Pupils on roll
- 243 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 25.9% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 21.8
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 12 March 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils enjoy attending this small, friendly and welcoming school.”
- “Working relationships between staff and pupils are nurturing and warm.”
- “This is because staff know pupils well and respond to their needs swiftly.”
To improve
- “In a small number of foundation subjects, the curriculum is not implemented securely in a way that is sufficiently ambitious for all pupils.”
- “As a result, pupils’ quality of work does not match the aims of the curriculum.”
- “In these subjects, pupils do not deepen their subject-specific knowledge and skills.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 15 May 2024 (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) | 68% | 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: 33 first-preference applications, 30 offers in total, 30 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 Bexley.
- St Paulinus Church of England Primary School 0.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Joseph's Catholic Primary School 0.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Mayplace Primary School 1.0 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Peareswood Primary School 1.0 mi Improved significantly Last distance published
- St. Paul's (Slade Green) Church of England Primary School 1.1 mi Good Last distance published
- Haberdashers' Slade Green Primary 1.1 mi Good Last distance published
- Fairford Academy Barnehurst 1.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Barnehurst Infant School 1.5 mi Outstanding Last distance published