Shears Green Infant School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 4–7 · Gravesend, Kent
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
4.19 miles
Published by Kent County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2023–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Shears Green Infant School is a primary school in Gravesend, Kent for ages 4–7 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Standards maintained, from the inspection on 18 December 2024. Kent has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2023 to 2026 entry.
Shears Green 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 | 4.19 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 Reception 2026 place went to a child 4.19 miles away: 116th longest of 434 Kent primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance (middle figure 2.24 miles).
- Every applicant was offered a place in 3 of the 4 Reception years with a published outcome; for Reception 2026 there were 65 first-choice applications for 73 offers.
- Every first-choice family for Reception 2026 was offered a place, and 8 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower; the admission number was 90 places.
- With 258 pupils on roll, there are 25.8 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 21.2 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
- Packham Road, Northfleet, Gravesend, DA11 7JF
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–7
- Council
- Kent
- Pupils on roll
- 258 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 35.3% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 25.8
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Standards maintained Inspected 18 December 2024
Strengths
- “Shears Green Infant School is welcoming.”
- “Pupils enjoy coming to this school.”
- “They have kind friends to play with.”
To improve
- “However, at the end of Year 1 in 2024, some pupils were not secure in their understanding of phonics.”
- “Therefore, some pupils were not as well prepared as they could be for the next stage of their education.”
- “However, on a few occasions, the checking of what pupils know and understand is not timely enough.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 4 February 2025 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 65 first-preference applications, 73 offers in total, 65 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.
- Shears Green Junior School 0.0 mi School remains Good
- Cecil Road Primary and Nursery School 0.5 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Painters Ash Primary School 0.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Copperfield Academy 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Whitehill Primary School 0.8 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
- Wrotham Road Primary School 1.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- King's Farm Primary School 1.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Botolph's Church of England Primary School 1.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published