Graded inspection · Jan 2024 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther primary schools in Kent
What did Ofsted find?
Ofsted data to 30 September 2026| Area | Outstanding | Good | Requires improvement | Inadequate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality of education | Good | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Good | |||
| Personal development | Good | |||
| Leadership and management | Good | |||
| Early years provision | Good |
Inspection history
- 23 January 2024Graded inspection: Good
- 2 October 2019Ungraded inspection: School remains Good · as St Stephen's Infant School, URN 118538
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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 entry160 applications · 69 places offered · 63 named it first
- 2026 2.3; Kent median median 2.4
- 2025 2.1; Kent median median 2.3
- 2024 2.5; Kent median median 2.4
- 2023 2.2; Kent median median 2.3
- 2022 2.0; Kent median median 2.1
- 2021 2.0; Kent median median 2.2; as the previous school
- 2020 2.1; Kent median median 2.2; as the previous school
- 2019 2.0; Kent median median 2.1; as the previous school
- 2018 1.9; Kent median median 2.1; as the previous school
- 2017 2.0; Kent median median 2.2; as the previous school
- 2016 2.4; Kent median median 2.5; as the previous school
- 2015 2.5; Kent median median 2.4; as the previous school
- 2014 2.5; Kent median median 2.3; as the previous school
- This school
- Kent median
Dashed bars: as St Stephen's Infant School (URN 118538), 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 | 69 | 160 | 2.3 | 63 | 0.91 |
| Sep 2025 | 88 | 180 | 2.1 | 76 | 0.86 |
| Sep 2024 | 70 | 175 | 2.5 | 55 | 0.79 |
| Sep 2023 | 90 | 197 | 2.2 | 82 | 0.91 |
| Sep 2022 | 80 | 156 | 2.0 | 72 | 0.90 |
| Sep 2021 * | 90 | 179 | 2.0 | 94 | 1.04 |
| Sep 2020 * | 90 | 185 | 2.1 | 104 | 1.16 |
| Sep 2019 * | 90 | 176 | 2.0 | 83 | 0.92 |
| Sep 2018 * | 90 | 167 | 1.9 | 83 | 0.92 |
| Sep 2017 * | 90 | 179 | 2.0 | 64 | 0.71 |
| Sep 2016 * | 90 | 216 | 2.4 | 101 | 1.12 |
| Sep 2015 * | 90 | 227 | 2.5 | 102 | 1.13 |
| Sep 2014 * | 90 | 225 | 2.5 | 94 | 1.04 |
Schools nearby
The 8 nearest primary schools in a straight line, in any local authority
- St Stephen's Infant SchoolThis schoolThis schoolGood20242.3applications per place
- 0.1 km · KentRemains Good202344%met the SATs standard
- 0.9 km · KentGood20242.6applications per place 38%met the SATs standard
- 1.2 km · KentGood20234.3applications per place 80%met the SATs standard
- 1.3 km · KentStandards maintained20243.8applications per place 63%met the SATs standard
- 1.9 km · KentGood20231.3applications per place 23%met the SATs standard
- 2.1 km · KentRemains Good20222.1applications per place 51%met the SATs standard
- 2.1 km · KentRemains Outstanding20222.6applications per place 80%met the SATs standard
- 2.5 km · Kent20262.1applications per place 66%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
- 148501 · 886/2611
- Trust
- Turner Schools
- Capacity
- 270 pupils · 263 on roll
- Free school meals
- 33.0% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 April 2021
- Replaced
- St Stephen's Infant School (URN 118538)
- Address
- Hales Drive, St Stephen's, Canterbury, CT2 7AB
- Local authority
- Kent · Canterbury
Data last changed 3 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources