St Stephen's Infant School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 5–7 · Canterbury, Kent
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
36.292 miles
Published by Kent County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2023–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
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 2023 to 2026 entry.
St Stephen's Infant 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 | 36.292 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's last distance offered was 36.292 miles, the 8th longest of 434 Kent primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance, this one included (middle figure 2.24 miles).
- The Reception last distance was further in 2026 than in 2023; every applicant was offered a place in 2 of the 4 years with a published outcome.
- Reception 2026 drew 63 first-choice applications for 69 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place, and 6 offers went to families ranking it second or lower.
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
- Hales Drive, St Stephen's, Canterbury, CT2 7AB
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 5–7
- 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.
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