Chartham Primary School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 5–11 · Canterbury, Kent
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
8.761 miles
Published by Kent County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2023–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Chartham Primary School is a primary school in Canterbury, Kent for ages 5–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 7 February 2024. Kent has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2023 to 2026 entry.
Chartham 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 | 8.761 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
- For Reception 2026 the last distance offered was 8.761 miles, the 47th longest of the 434 Kent primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance (this one included).
- Reception 2026 had 49 first-choice applications for 54 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 5 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- In 2024/25, 63% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), 4th lowest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest primary schools in Kent.
- There are 21.1 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 18.5 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
- Shalmsford Street, Chartham, Canterbury, CT4 7QN
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 5–11
- Council
- Kent
- Pupils on roll
- 380 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 29.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 21.1
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 7 February 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils show great care and consideration in this inclusive school.”
- “They enjoy breaktimes and engage cooperatively in the wide range of games and activities that the school offers.”
- “Pupils work hard to meet the school’s expectations of being respectful, safe and ready for learning.”
To improve
- “However, in some subjects activities that support pupils in remembering what they have learned are not fully embedded.”
- “This means that, in some subjects, pupils do not achieve as well as they could.”
- “However, for a small proportion of pupils with SEND, teachers’ strategies are not always effective enough in helping them to catch up in their reading.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 18 March 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) | 63% | 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: 49 first-preference applications, 54 offers in total, 49 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.
- Chilham, St Mary's Church of England Primary School 2.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Petham Primary School 2.7 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- The Canterbury Primary School 2.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Wincheap Foundation Primary School 2.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Peter's Methodist Primary School 3.5 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Blean Primary School 3.7 mi School remains Outstanding Last distance published
- St Johns Church of England Primary School 3.9 mi Good Last distance published
- St Thomas' Catholic Primary School, Canterbury 3.9 mi Good Last distance published