King's Farm Primary School

Community school·Primary school Gravesend, Kent·DA12 5JT
Composite score
58.8
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#4,281
National rank
#634
In South East
#148
In Kent
Top 29%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
69%
% achieving higher RWM
12%
Reading average scaled score
105.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
105.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
46 first choices, 51 places
First choices per place
0.90
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
74
any preference, for 51 places
First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.06
00.511.5
1 per place
0.9620221.0420231.1220240.9620250.902026

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

Every child who put King's Farm Primary 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
3–11
Pupils on roll
459
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
58.1%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
22.2%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
9.2%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
6.8%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
7.1%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
25.0%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
15.5
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£8,165
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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School overview

King's Farm Primary School is a primary school serving Gravesend, Kent, classified by the DfE as a community school. It has 459 pupils aged 3 to 11 on roll. 69% of its pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of Key Stage 2, above the national average (national figure: 61%). The proportion reaching the expected standard has risen by 4.0 percentage points year on year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it in the top 29% of primary schools nationally.

Pupils achieved an average scaled score of 105 in reading and 105 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 12% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). Getting a place is straightforward: for the September 2026 intake every family who made King's Farm Primary School their first choice was offered one of its 51 Reception places. Overall pupil absence was 7.1%. There are about 15.5 pupils per teacher. The school serves a community with above-average levels of disadvantage: about 58% 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. King's Farm 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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