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  • Eastling Primary School
    Kettle Hill Road
    Eastling
    Faversham
    Kent
    ME13 0BA
  • Head: Mrs Melanie Dale
  • T 01795 890252
  • F 01795 890 252
  • E office@eastling.kent.sch.uk
  • W www.eastling.kent.sch.uk
  • A state school for boys and girls aged from 4 to 11.
  • Read about the best schools in West Kent and East Kent
  • Boarding: No
  • Local authority: Kent
  • Pupils: 99
  • Religion: Does not apply
  • Ofsted:
    • Latest Overall effectiveness Good 1
      • Early years provision Good 2
      • Effectiveness of leadership and management Good 2
    • 1 Short inspection 20th October 2021
    • 2 Full inspection 13th September 2016

    Short inspection reports only give an overall grade; you have to read the report itself to gauge whether the detailed grading from the earlier full inspection still stands.

  • Previous Ofsted grade: Good on 1st December 2011
  • Ofsted report: View the Ofsted report

What the school says...

'A village school at the heart of the community'

Eastling School is a small village school in the idyllic North Downs catchment. Boasting high staff ratios, lots of space and a real family ethos, the school is fully inclusive establishment that gains high quality results across its varied pupil catchment. The school prides itself on the range and variety of curriculum enhancements possible by the loyal and generous support of an active PTA. These include a full use of the environment as a learning resource with educational visits seen as a key element of learning. Sports and Music feature highly in this Artsmark and Sports Award recognised school, which also holds the Green Flag award (Eco awareness), Safe Schools' and Healthy Schools' standards.

Our catchment area is wide with above 75% of the intake from towns, villages and hamlets more than seven miles distant from the school. Similarly, our children go on to a wide range of educational destinations from private, grammar or standard schools.
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Who goes where

Interpreting catchment maps

The maps show in colour where the pupils at a school came from*. Red = most pupils to Blue = fewest.

Where the map is not coloured we have no record in the previous three years of any pupils being admitted from that location based on the options chosen.

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Further reading

If there are more applicants to a school than it has places for, who gets in is determined by which applicants best fulfil the admissions criteria.

Admissions criteria are often complicated, and may change from year to year. The best source of information is usually the relevant local authority website, but once you have set your sights on a school it is a good idea to ask them how they see things panning out for the year that you are interested in.

Many schools admit children based on distance from the school or a fixed catchment area. For such schools, the cut-off distance will vary from year to year, especially if the school give priority to siblings, and the pattern will be of a central core with outliers (who will mostly be siblings). Schools that admit on the basis of academic or religious selection will have a much more scattered pattern.

*The coloured areas outlined in black are Census Output Areas. These are made up of a group of neighbouring postcodes, which accounts for their odd shapes. These provide an indication, but not a precise map, of the school’s catchment: always refer to local authority and school websites for precise information.

The 'hotter' the colour the more children have been admitted.

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