Westmeads Community Infant School

Community school·Infant school Whitstable, Kent·CT5 1NA

School type

Infant school

Ages 2–7

Key Stage 2 performance

Westmeads Community Infant School is an infant school for pupils aged 2–7. 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

94%

63 first choices, 59 places

First choices per place

1.07

more first choices than places

Applications naming the school

130

any preference, for 59 places

First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.12

00.511.5

1 per place

0.8820221.0020231.0020240.9520251.072026

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 Westmeads Community Infant School. Ask the school or the council how places were allocated this year.

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

Ofsted judgements

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Quality of education

Outstanding

Behaviour and attitudes

Outstanding

Personal development

Outstanding

Leadership and management

Outstanding

Safeguarding effective?

Yes

Early years provision

Outstanding

School profile

Age range: 2–7
Pupils on roll: 140
Gender: Mixed
Religious character: None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6

24.3%

Typical primary: 21.5%

% EAL

9.3%

Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support

19.3%

Typical primary: 14.3%

% with an EHC plan

2.9%

Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence

4.2%

Typical primary: 5.3%

Persistently absent

10.4%

Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher

18.9

Typical primary: 20.7

Spend per pupil

£7,759

Typical primary: £6,960

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

Nearby primary schools

Whitstable and Seasalter Endowed Church of England Junior School Whitstable · 0.3 mi 55.6 Whitstable Junior School Whitstable · 0.4 mi 59.4 St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Whitstable Whitstable · 0.4 mi 53.5 Joy Lane Primary Foundation School Whitstable · 0.9 mi 47.0 Swalecliffe Community Primary School Whitstable · 1.3 mi 40.8 Thornden Wood Primary School Herne Bay · 3.0 mi 67.8 Hampton Primary School Herne Bay · 3.2 mi 33.7 Hernhill Church of England Primary School Faversham · 4.2 mi 65.3

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

School overview

Westmeads Community Infant School is a primary school serving Whitstable, Kent, classified by the DfE as a community school. It has 140 pupils aged 2 to 7 on roll.

Westmeads Community Infant 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 63 first choices for 59 places. Overall pupil absence was 4.2%. There are about 18.9 pupils per teacher. Westmeads Community 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.