Tunbury Primary School

Community school·Primary school Chatham, Kent·ME5 9HY
Composite score
40.6
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National rank
#1609
In South East
#319
In Kent
Top 73%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
57%
% achieving higher RWM
3%
Reading average scaled score
106.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
103.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Ofsted judgements

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Overall effectiveness
Good
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
92%
63 first choices, 60 places
First choices per place
1.05
more first choices than places
Applications naming the school
110
any preference, for 60 places
Applications from another council area
60%
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.12
00.511.5
1 per place
0.9720220.9520230.9720240.9320251.052026

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 Tunbury 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
534
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
13.1%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
5.2%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
7.1%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
1.1%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
5.1%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
11.3%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
19.5
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£5,850
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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About Tunbury Primary School

Tunbury Primary School is a primary school in Chatham, Kent, classified by the DfE as a community school. Around 534 pupils aged 4 to 11 attend the school. The school holds a 'Good' judgement from Ofsted. 57% 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 fallen by 7.0 percentage points compared with the previous year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it in the lower half of primary schools nationally.

Pupils achieved an average scaled score of 106 in reading and 103 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 3% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). Tunbury 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 63 first choices for 60 places. Overall pupil absence was 5.1%. There are about 19.5 pupils per teacher. Given the recent dip in results, it may be worth asking the school what is behind the change and what is being done in response. 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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