Newington Community Primary School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 3–11 · Ramsgate, Kent
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
1.004 miles
Published by Kent County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2023–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Newington Community Primary School is a primary school in Ramsgate, Kent for ages 3–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Standards maintained, from the inspection on 18 June 2025. Kent has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2023 to 2026 entry.
Newington Community 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 | 1.004 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 child offered a place lived 1.004 miles away, the 106th shortest of 434 Kent primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance.
- The Reception last distance has swung sharply between years, and the 2026 figure was the shortest of the 3 years with a published distance.
- Reception 2026 drew 93 first-choice applications for 90 offers; 84 offers went to first-choice families, and 9 first-choice families (10%) were not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 47% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 3% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
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
- Princess Margaret Avenue, Ramsgate, CT12 6HX
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–11
- Council
- Kent
- Pupils on roll
- 692 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 51.6% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 18.4
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Standards maintained Inspected 18 June 2025
Strengths
- “Pupils enjoy being part of this nurturing school.”
- “Staff are well attuned to pupils’ learning and emotional needs.”
- “As a result, pupils get the right help to feel safe and achieve well.”
To improve
- “Leaders recognise that, in the past, pupils have not attained as highly as they could by the end of key stage 2.”
- “Historic published data for key stage 2 national tests does not reflect how well pupils are now achieving.”
- “In the wider curriculum, the school’s approach to checking pupils’ understanding is inconsistent.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 17 July 2025 (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) | 47% | 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: 93 first-preference applications, 90 offers in total, 84 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.
- Ramsgate Arts Primary School 0.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Laurence In Thanet Church of England Junior Academy 0.4 mi Good
- Dame Janet Primary Academy 0.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Ellington Infant School 0.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Chilton Primary School 0.8 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Priory Infant School 1.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Christ Church Church of England Junior School, Ramsgate 1.0 mi School remains Good
- Newlands Primary School 1.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published