St Stephen's Infant School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 5–7 · Canterbury, Kent
St Stephen's Infant School is a primary school in Canterbury, Kent for ages 5–7 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 23 January 2024. Kent has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2026 entry.
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Key facts
- Address
- Hales Drive, St Stephen's, Canterbury, CT2 7AB
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 5–7
- Sector
- See recorded establishment type
- Council
- Kent
- Pupils on roll
- 263 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 32.7% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 21.5
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 23 January 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils and staff at this school keenly describe the warm and vibrant community that they are part of.”
- “There is a genuine interest taken by all to understand pupils as individuals.”
- “As such, pupils are well known and there is great emphasis on their nurture and care.”
To improve
- “In these subjects that have more recently been developed, teachers sometimes do not always check what pupils have remembered before moving on to new learning.”
- “Activities and tasks in lessons also do not always enable pupils to learn the planned content as well as they could.”
- “This means that pupils can find it more difficult to recall some of the key knowledge they have been taught.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 29 February 2024 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 63 first-preference applications, 69 offers in total, 63 offers to first-preference applicants.
Department for Education, school-level applications and offers, figures on national offer day. Earlier years are in the pass.
Last distance offered and catchment
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- Last distance offered for Reception 2026, as Kent published it, drawn on the map
- Earlier years of applications and offers
- Crime, sold prices, broadband and transport around the school
A last distance offered describes one past year and is not a catchment or a promise of a place. Check with the council before you apply.
Nearby primary schools
Straight-line distance, in Kent.
- St Stephen's Junior School 0.1 mi School remains Good
- St Johns Church of England Primary School 0.6 mi Good Last distance published
- St Thomas' Catholic Primary School, Canterbury 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- St Peter's Methodist Primary School 0.8 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Parkside Community Foundation Primary School 1.2 mi Good Last distance published
- The Canterbury Primary School 1.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Blean Primary School 1.3 mi School remains Outstanding Last distance published
- Wincheap Foundation Primary School 1.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published