St Bartholomew's Catholic Primary School, Swanley
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 5–11 · Swanley, Kent
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.43 miles
Published by Kent County Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2023–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
St Bartholomew's Catholic Primary School, Swanley is a primary school in Swanley, Kent for ages 5–11 (academy converter). Kent has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2023 to 2026 entry.
St Bartholomew's Catholic Primary School, Swanley 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 | 0.43 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 0.43 miles away, the 27th shortest of 434 Kent primary schools with a published Reception 2026 last distance.
- The Reception 2026 last distance was further than in 2025 and 2024, and the 2026 figure was the longest of the 3 years with a published distance.
- Reception 2026 had 46 first-choice applications for 45 offers; 45 offers went to first-choice families, and 1 first-choice family (2%) was not offered a place.
- 21.4% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 27.6% 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
- Sycamore Drive, Swanley, BR8 7AY
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 5–11
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Council
- Kent
- Pupils on roll
- 318 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 21.4% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 23.1
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
No Ofsted grade
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 46 first-preference applications, 45 offers in total, 45 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.
- Horizon Primary Academy 0.2 mi School remains Good (Improving) - S5 Next Last distance published
- St Mary's Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School 0.4 mi Good Last distance published
- High Firs Primary School 0.5 mi Good Last distance published
- Downsview Community Primary School 0.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Crockenhill Primary School 1.1 mi Not judged Last distance published
- St Pauls' Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School 1.1 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Hextable Primary School 1.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Joydens Wood Junior School 1.9 mi Not judged