Headcorn Primary School

Community school·Primary school Headcorn, Kent·TN27 9QT
Composite score
53.1
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#6,167
National rank
#922
In South East
#206
In Kent
Top 42%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
62%
% achieving higher RWM
11%
Reading average scaled score
105.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
102.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Ofsted judgements

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Quality of education
Good
Behaviour and attitudes
Good
Personal development
Good
Leadership and management
Good
Safeguarding effective?
Yes
Early years provision
Good

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
91%
64 first choices, 60 places
First choices per place
1.07
more first choices than places
Applications naming the school
98
any preference, for 60 places
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.12
00.511.5
1 per place
0.9520220.9120231.0520240.9520251.072026

Red dashed line = one first choice per place. How to read this

Kent does not publish how far from the school the last child offered a Reception place lived, so there is no cut-off distance to show for Headcorn Primary School. Ask the school or the council how places were allocated this year.

Application figures: DfE, school level applications and offers (2026 intake).

School profile

Age range
4–11
Pupils on roll
395
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
26.3%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
5.6%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
12.4%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
1.5%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
6.0%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
18.9%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
18.9
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£6,542
Typical primary: £6,960

“Typical” = the median primary school in England. What this means

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School overview

Headcorn Primary School is a primary school serving Headcorn, Kent, classified by the DfE as a community school. It has 395 pupils aged 4 to 11 on roll. 62% of its pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of Key Stage 2, broadly in line with the national average (national figure: 61%). The proportion reaching the expected standard has risen by 5.0 percentage points year on year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it in the top 42% of primary schools nationally.

Pupils achieved an average scaled score of 105 in reading and 102 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 11% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). Headcorn Primary School is oversubscribed: about 9 in 10 of the families who made it their first choice were offered a Reception place for September 2026, with 64 first choices for 60 places. Overall pupil absence was 6.0%. There are about 18.9 pupils per teacher. Headcorn Primary School does not currently have a recent graded Ofsted judgement on record (often the case for newer or recently converted schools), so it is worth asking when its next inspection is expected. This overview is generated automatically from the latest published DfE performance tables and Ofsted data; figures are rounded, and you can check the originals via the official links above.

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