Graded inspection · Oct 2024 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 | Good | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Good | |||
| Personal development | Good | |||
| Leadership and management | Good | |||
| Early years provision | Good |
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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 entry109 applications · 44 places offered · 41 named it first
FaithMay give priority to families of the faith.
- 2026 2.5; Medway median median 2.5
- 2025 2.6; Medway median median 2.8; as the previous school
- 2024 2.2; Medway median median 2.8; as the previous school
- 2023 1.7; Medway median median 2.2; as the previous school
- 2022 1.9; Medway median median 2.2; as the previous school
- 2021 2.4; Medway median median 2.1; as the previous school
- 2020 2.3; Medway median median 2.1; as the previous school
- 2019 2.6; Medway median median 2.2; as the previous school
- 2018 2.1; Medway median median 2.0; as the previous school
- 2017 2.6; Medway median median 2.0; as the previous school
- 2016 2.7; Medway median median 2.2; as the previous school
- 2015 2.7; Medway median median 2.2; as the previous school
- 2014 2.3; Medway median median 2.1; as the previous school
- This school
- Medway median
Dashed bars: as St Thomas More Roman Catholic Primary School (URN 118769), 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 | 44 | 109 | 2.5 | 41 | 0.93 |
| Sep 2025 * | 42 | 111 | 2.6 | 38 | 0.90 |
| Sep 2024 * | 57 | 123 | 2.2 | 56 | 0.98 |
| Sep 2023 * | 60 | 100 | 1.7 | 55 | 0.92 |
| Sep 2022 * | 57 | 106 | 1.9 | 52 | 0.91 |
| Sep 2021 * | 59 | 143 | 2.4 | 72 | 1.22 |
| Sep 2020 * | 47 | 109 | 2.3 | 41 | 0.87 |
| Sep 2019 * | 60 | 154 | 2.6 | 75 | 1.25 |
| Sep 2018 * | 60 | 125 | 2.1 | 65 | 1.08 |
| Sep 2017 * | 60 | 153 | 2.6 | 76 | 1.27 |
| Sep 2016 * | 60 | 159 | 2.7 | 61 | 1.02 |
| Sep 2015 * | 61 | 164 | 2.7 | 80 | 1.31 |
| Sep 2014 * | 60 | 140 | 2.3 | 68 | 1.13 |
Schools nearby
The 8 nearest primary schools in a straight line, in any local authority
- St Thomas More Roman Catholic Primary SchoolThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20242.5applications per place
- 0.3 km · MedwayRemains Good20231.9applications per place 70%met the SATs standard
- 0.6 km · MedwayRemains Good · improving20244.4applications per place 77%met the SATs standard
- 0.6 km · MedwayGood20222.2applications per place 56%met the SATs standard
- 1.0 km · MedwayRemains Good2023
- 1.1 km · MedwayGraded · no overall grade20253.9applications per place 76%met the SATs standard
- 1.1 km · MedwayGood2023
- 1.4 km · MedwaySpecial measures 20252.4applications per place 31%met the SATs standard
- 1.6 km · MedwayStandards maintained20252.6applications 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
- 151928 · 887/3736
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Capacity
- 420 pupils · 397 on roll
- Free school meals
- 16.4% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 September 2025
- Replaced
- St Thomas More Roman Catholic Primary School (URN 118769)
- Address
- Bleakwood Road, Chatham, ME5 0NF
- Local authority
- Medway
Data last changed 3 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources