Herne Bay Infant School

Community school·Infant school Herne Bay, Kent·CT6 5SH

School type

Infant school

Ages 3–7

Key Stage 2 performance

Herne Bay Infant School is an infant school for pupils aged 3–7. Pupils move on to a separate junior or middle school before Year 6, so the school does not enter pupils for the Key Stage 2 SATs and has no KS2 results to publish.

This applies to every infant school in England — it does not mean data is missing. Ofsted judgements and school information are shown below.

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first

98%

56 first choices, 60 places

First choices per place

0.93

fewer first choices than places

Applications naming the school

118

any preference, for 60 places

Applications from another council area

First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.04

00.511.5

1 per place

0.9320220.8220231.0020240.8920250.932026

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 Herne Bay Infant 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: 3–7
Pupils on roll: 276
Gender: Mixed
Religious character: None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6

41.5%

Typical primary: 21.5%

% EAL

9.4%

Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support

15.2%

Typical primary: 14.3%

% with an EHC plan

1.1%

Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence

6.4%

Typical primary: 5.3%

Persistently absent

16.4%

Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher

21.6

Typical primary: 20.7

Spend per pupil

£7,408

Typical primary: £6,960

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

Nearby primary schools

Herne Bay Junior School Herne Bay · 0.1 mi 24.4 Hampton Primary School Herne Bay · 1.1 mi 33.7 Herne Church of England Junior School Herne Bay · 1.2 mi 74.8 Thornden Wood Primary School Herne Bay · 1.4 mi 67.8 Reculver Church of England Primary School Herne Bay · 2.0 mi 46.5 Hoath Primary School Canterbury · 2.8 mi 54.3 Swalecliffe Community Primary School Whitstable · 3.0 mi 40.8 Chislet Church of England Primary School Canterbury · 3.6 mi 30.6

Location

Official sources

Latest Ofsted report reports.ofsted.gov.uk DfE Compare School Performance compare-school-performance.service.gov.uk GIAS school details get-information-schools.service.gov.uk

Herne Bay Infant School at a glance

Located in Herne Bay, Kent, Herne Bay Infant School is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a community school. The school educates roughly 276 pupils aged 3 to 7.

98% of the families who made Herne Bay Infant School their first choice were offered a Reception place for September 2026, even though the school made at least as many offers as it had first choices - the rest withdrew, moved or fell outside a priority group. Overall pupil absence was 6.4%. There are about 21.6 pupils per teacher. The school serves a community with above-average levels of disadvantage: about 42% of pupils have been eligible for free school meals in the last six years, compared with roughly 24% nationally — useful context when reading the results above. Herne Bay Infant 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.