St Paul's Infant School

Community school·Infant school Maidstone, Kent·ME14 2BS

School type

Infant school

Ages 4–7

Key Stage 2 performance

St Paul's Infant School is an infant school for pupils aged 4–7. 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

100%

64 first choices, 85 places

First choices per place

0.75

fewer first choices than places

Applications naming the school

124

any preference, for 85 places

First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.01

00.511.5

1 per place

0.7620220.7620230.7920240.7620250.752026

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

Every child who put St Paul's Infant School first was offered a place in 2026, so no distance cut-off applied: living further away did not cost a place that year.

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

School profile

Age range: 4–7
Pupils on roll: 262
Gender: Mixed
Religious character: None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6

22.9%

Typical primary: 21.5%

% EAL

30.2%

Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support

25.2%

Typical primary: 14.3%

% with an EHC plan

2.3%

Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence

6.5%

Typical primary: 5.3%

Persistently absent

19.9%

Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher

18.7

Typical primary: 20.7

Spend per pupil

£7,117

Typical primary: £6,960

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

Nearby primary schools

North Borough Junior School Maidstone · 0.1 mi 48.0 Sandling Primary School Maidstone · 0.5 mi 55.2 Valley Invicta Primary School At East Borough Maidstone · 0.8 mi 71.2 Brunswick House Primary School Maidstone · 0.8 mi 53.9 Allington Primary School Maidstone · 1.3 mi 70.3 Palace Wood Primary School Maidstone · 1.3 mi 54.2 Maidstone, St Michael's Church of England Junior School Maidstone · 1.3 mi 53.0 St Francis' Catholic Primary School, Maidstone Maidstone · 1.4 mi 36.9

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

St Paul's Infant School at a glance

Located in Maidstone, Kent, St Paul's Infant School is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a community school. The school educates roughly 262 pupils aged 4 to 7.

Getting a place is straightforward: for the September 2026 intake every family who made St Paul's Infant School their first choice was offered one of its 85 Reception places. Overall pupil absence was 6.5%. There are about 18.7 pupils per teacher. St Paul's 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.