Barton Manor School
Secondary · Free schools · Ages 11–19 · Canterbury, Kent
Last distance offered · Year 7 2026
2.628 miles
Published by Kent County Council · offers on 2 March 2026
2022–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Barton Manor School is a secondary school in Canterbury, Kent for ages 11–19 (free schools). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Not judged, from the inspection on 13 May 2025. Kent and the school have published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2022 to 2026 entry.
Barton Manor 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 |
|---|---|
| Year 7 2026 | 2.628 mi |
| Year 7 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2023 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2022 | 🔒 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 Year 7 place in 2026 lived 2.628 miles away, 27th shortest of 56 Kent secondary schools with a published last distance; the middle figure was 2.82 miles.
- That Year 7 2026 distance was further than in 2025 and about the same as in 2022, having swung sharply, most of all from 2023 to 2024.
- For Year 7 in 2026 there were 147 first-choice applications for 147 offers; 104 offers went to first-choice families and 43 first-choice families (29%) were not offered a place.
- Of its pupils, 41.6% are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 26% across the 8 nearest secondary 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
- Spring Lane, Canterbury, CT1 1SU
- Type
- Free schools
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–19
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Kent
- Pupils on roll
- 596 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 41.6% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 16.2
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Not judged Inspected 13 May 2025
Strengths
- “A palpable sense of ambition is evident in all aspects of school life.”
- “Pupils live up to the school’s motto of ‘Aspire, Believe and Achieve’.”
- “They try their best because staff recognise and celebrate the unique qualities and achievements of each pupil.”
To improve
- “At times, some teaching does not ensure that all pupils understand some complex ideas.”
- “This means that pupils do not fully understand new concepts and limits how well they remember and apply this learning.”
- “However, for a small minority of pupils, this support does not effectively target the challenges that they have.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 19 June 2025 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Year 7 entry: 147 first-preference applications, 147 offers in total, 104 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 secondary schools
Straight-line distance, in Kent.
- Barton Court Grammar School 0.4 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Simon Langton Girls' Grammar School 0.6 mi School remains Good (Improving) - S5 Next Last distance published
- St Anselm's Catholic School, Canterbury 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Simon Langton Grammar School for Boys 1.1 mi Not judged Last distance published
- The Canterbury Academy 1.6 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- The Archbishop's School 1.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Orion Spires 3.4 mi Good Last distance published
- The Whitstable School 6.0 mi Good Last distance published