Graded inspection · Jan 2025 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther primary schools in Medway
What did Ofsted find?
Ofsted data to 30 September 2026| Area | Outstanding | Good | Requires improvement | Inadequate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality of education | Outstanding | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Outstanding | |||
| Personal development | Outstanding | |||
| Leadership and management | Outstanding | |||
| Early years provision | Outstanding |
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About these grades
Ofsted's report cards (from November 2025) grade each area on five steps and give no overall grade. Earlier grades come from a different framework; Ofsted says the two cannot be compared, so they are never converted here. Ofsted: "We normally inspect schools every 4 years or at any time if we have concerns." Methodology.
How hard is it to get a place?
DfE · Sept 2026 entry122 applications · 30 places offered · 53 named it first
FaithMay give priority to families of the faith.
HistoryEarlier years not shown: formed from, or split from, other schools.
- 2026 4.1; Medway median median 2.5
- 2025 3.9; Medway median median 2.8
- 2024 3.6; Medway median median 2.8
- 2023 3.8; Medway median median 2.2
- 2022 3.7; Medway median median 2.2
- 2021 4.2; Medway median median 2.1
- 2020 3.4; Medway median median 2.1
- 2019 3.9; Medway median median 2.2
- 2018 2.9; Medway median median 2.0
- 2017 3.6; Medway median median 2.0
- 2016 4.4; Medway median median 2.2; as the previous school
- 2015 3.5; Medway median median 2.2; as the previous school
- 2014 2.8; Medway median median 2.1; as the previous school
- This school
- Medway median
Dashed bars: as The Pilgrim School (URN 134823), the previous school.
Reception applications for September 2027 close 15 January 2027, through your council
How this is measured
Applications per place: every application naming the school at any preference, divided by places offered on National Offer Day. It is not your chance of a place. Methodology.
| Entry | Places | Applications | Per place | First preferences | First-pref. ratio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2026 | 30 | 122 | 4.1 | 53 | 1.77 |
| Sep 2025 | 30 | 116 | 3.9 | 43 | 1.43 |
| Sep 2024 | 30 | 108 | 3.6 | 39 | 1.30 |
| Sep 2023 | 30 | 114 | 3.8 | 37 | 1.23 |
| Sep 2022 | 30 | 110 | 3.7 | 63 | 2.10 |
| Sep 2021 | 30 | 126 | 4.2 | 65 | 2.17 |
| Sep 2020 | 30 | 103 | 3.4 | 54 | 1.80 |
| Sep 2019 | 30 | 118 | 3.9 | 56 | 1.87 |
| Sep 2018 | 30 | 88 | 2.9 | 36 | 1.20 |
| Sep 2017 | 30 | 107 | 3.6 | 59 | 1.97 |
| Sep 2016 * | 31 | 136 | 4.4 | 55 | 1.77 |
| Sep 2015 * | 29 | 101 | 3.5 | 53 | 1.83 |
| Sep 2014 * | 30 | 85 | 2.8 | 39 | 1.30 |
How did pupils do in SATs?
DfE KS2 · 2024/25Reading 87% · Writing 90% · Maths 97% → all three 83% met the expected standard, End of Year 6
- This school
- Medway median
- England median
Every year as a table
| Year | Expected standard | Higher standard | Reading score | Maths score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024/25 | 83% | 10% | 111 | 110 |
| 2023/24 | 87% | 20% | 111 | 110 |
| 2022/23 | 83% | 0% | 109 | 105 |
Subject results are published for the latest year only. Scaled scores run from 80 to 120.
Schools nearby
The 8 nearest primary schools in a straight line, in any local authority
- The Pilgrim School (A Church of England Primary With Nursery)This schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20254.1applications per place 83%met the SATs standard
- 1.2 km · MedwayRemains Good20232.7applications per place
- 1.6 km · MedwayNot yet inspected
- 1.7 km · MedwayRemains Good20243.2applications per place
- 1.7 km · MedwayGood202460%met the SATs standard
- 1.8 km · MedwayStandards maintained20241.9applications per place 57%met the SATs standard
- 1.8 km · MedwayStandards maintained20252.2applications per place
- 2.0 km · Medway20261.9applications per place
- 2.0 km · MedwayGraded · no overall grade20252.2applications per place 38%met the SATs standard
- Exceptional
- Strong standard
- Expected standard
- Needs attention
- Urgent improvement
- Does not apply
Eight dots, one per area: inclusion, curriculum, achievement, attendance, personal development, early years, post-16, leadership. Colours follow Ofsted's report card scale; Schoolfile is independent of Ofsted.
School details
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- URN · DfE number
- 143832 · 887/3758
- Trust
- The Pilgrim Multi Academy Trust
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Capacity
- 210 pupils · 237 on roll
- Free school meals
- 17.9% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Nursery
- Has nursery classes
- Opened
- 1 December 2016
- Replaced
- The Pilgrim School (URN 134823)
- Address
- Warwick Crescent, Borstal, Rochester, ME1 3LF
- Local authority
- Medway
Data last changed 3 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources