St Michael's Church of England Infant School Maidstone

Voluntary controlled school·Infant school Maidstone, Kent·ME16 8ER

School type

Infant school

Ages 5–7

Key Stage 2 performance

St Michael's Church of England Infant School Maidstone is an infant school for pupils aged 5–7. 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

88%

43 first choices, 40 places

First choices per place

1.07

more first choices than places

Applications naming the school

100

any preference, for 40 places

First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.05

00.511.52

1 per place

1.6220221.2720231.3520241.1220251.072026

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 St Michael's Church of England Infant School Maidstone. 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

Good

Behaviour and attitudes

Good

Personal development

Good

Leadership and management

Good

Safeguarding effective?

Yes

Early years provision

Good

School profile

Age range: 5–7
Pupils on roll: 120
Gender: Mixed
Religious character: Church of England

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6

12.5%

Typical primary: 21.5%

% EAL

45.8%

Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support

8.3%

Typical primary: 14.3%

% with an EHC plan

2.5%

Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence

3.9%

Typical primary: 5.3%

Persistently absent

7.1%

Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher

15.8

Typical primary: 20.7

Spend per pupil

£7,350

Typical primary: £6,960

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

Nearby primary schools

Maidstone, St Michael's Church of England Junior School Maidstone · 0.0 mi 53.0 Archbishop Courtenay Primary School Maidstone · 0.3 mi 70.3 Brunswick House Primary School Maidstone · 0.7 mi 53.9 St Francis' Catholic Primary School, Maidstone Maidstone · 0.7 mi 36.9 South Borough Primary School Maidstone · 0.7 mi 67.6 West Borough Primary School Maidstone · 0.9 mi 36.4 Jubilee Primary School Maidstone · 0.9 mi 79.5 Valley Invicta Primary School At East Borough Maidstone · 1.1 mi 71.2

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 Michael's Church of England Infant School Maidstone at a glance

Located in Maidstone, Kent, St Michael's Church of England Infant School Maidstone is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a voluntary controlled school with a Church of England religious character. The school educates roughly 120 pupils aged 5 to 7.

Competition for places is real here - 88% of first-choice applicants were offered a Reception place for September 2026 (43 first choices for 40 places). Overall pupil absence was 3.9%. There are about 15.8 pupils per teacher. Its intake is relatively advantaged, with around 12% of pupils eligible for free school meals in the last six years versus about 24% nationally. St Michael's Church of England Infant School Maidstone 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.