Ightham Primary School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 4–11 · Sevenoaks, Kent
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
1.224 miles
Published by Kent County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2023–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Ightham Primary School is a primary school in Sevenoaks, Kent for ages 4–11 (academy converter). Kent has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2023 to 2026 entry.
Ightham 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 | 1.224 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 child offered a Reception place in 2026 lived 1.224 miles away, the 126th shortest of 434 Kent primary schools with a published last distance (middle figure 2.24 miles).
- That 2026 distance was further from the school than in 2025 and about the same as in 2023, with the biggest swing coming from 2025 to 2026.
- There were 47 first-choice applications for 30 offers for Reception 2026; 30 offers went to first-choice families and 17 first-choice families (36%) were not offered a place.
- Free school meals eligibility is 2.4%, against a middle figure of 17.6% 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
- Oldbury Lane, Ightham, Sevenoaks, TN15 9DD
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- Kent
- Pupils on roll
- 206 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 2.4% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 19.1
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
No Ofsted grade
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 47 first-preference applications, 30 offers in total, 30 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 Lawrence Church of England Primary School 1.4 mi Good Last distance published
- Borough Green Primary School 1.5 mi Good Last distance published
- Plaxtol Primary School 2.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Platt Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School 2.2 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- St George's Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School 2.2 mi Good Last distance published
- Kemsing Primary School 2.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Seal Church of England Primary School 2.6 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Shipbourne School 2.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published