Leigh Academy Paddock Wood
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 4–11 · Tonbridge, Kent
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
8.66 miles
Published by Kent County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2023–2025 trend 🔒
Leigh Academy Paddock Wood is a primary school in Tonbridge, Kent for ages 4–11 (academy converter). 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.
Leigh Academy Paddock Wood 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 | 8.66 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
- The last child offered a Reception place in 2026 lived 8.66 miles away, the 48th longest of 434 Kent primary schools with a published last distance.
- The 2026 Reception last distance was further from the school than in 2024.
- Reception 2026 had 81 first-choice applications for 88 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 7 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- 2024/25: 86% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), highest 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
- Old Kent Road, Paddock Wood, Tonbridge, TN12 6JE
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- Kent
- Pupils on roll
- 618 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 22.2% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 23.8
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 8 November 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils at Paddock Wood Primary Academy are excited to learn.”
- “The school is a safe and stimulating place which offers a myriad of opportunities to develop pupils’ interests and talents.”
- “Each day there is a hive of happy activity.”
To improve
- “However, currently this is not yet as consistent as the school intends.”
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) | 86% | 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: 81 first-preference applications, 88 offers in total, 81 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.
- Brenchley and Matfield Church of England Primary School 1.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Capel Primary School 1.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Laddingford St Mary's Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School 2.2 mi Good Last distance published
- East Peckham Primary School 2.6 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Margaret's, Collier Street Church of England Voluntary Controlled School 3.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Pembury School 3.2 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Leigh Academy Horsmonden 3.3 mi Good Last distance published
- Hadlow Primary School 3.8 mi Not judged Last distance published