Greenlands Primary School

Academy converter·Primary school Dartford, Kent·DA2 8DH
Composite score
59.1
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#4,184
National rank
#618
In South East
#144
In Kent
Top 28%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
73%
% achieving higher RWM
10%
Reading average scaled score
107.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
107.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Ofsted judgements

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Overall effectiveness
Requires improvement
Quality of education
Requires improvement
Behaviour and attitudes
Requires improvement
Personal development
Requires improvement
Leadership and management
Good
Safeguarding effective?
Yes
Early years provision
Requires improvement

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
16 first choices, 17 places
First choices per place
0.94
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
25
any preference, for 17 places
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.04
00.511.5
1 per place
1.0020220.9620231.0020240.9020250.942026

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

Every child who put Greenlands 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
5–11
Pupils on roll
185
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
46.5%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
22.2%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
17.8%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
1.6%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
10.9%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
38.6%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
19.5
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£5,897
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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Greenlands Primary School at a glance

Located in Dartford, Kent, Greenlands Primary School is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a converter academy. The school educates roughly 185 pupils aged 5 to 11. Ofsted judged the school to be 'Requires improvement' at its most recent inspection. In the most recent Key Stage 2 SATs, 73% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined — above the national average of 61%. That marks an improvement of 1.0 percentage points in the proportion reaching the expected standard on the previous year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it in the top 28% of primary schools nationally.

Pupils achieved an average scaled score of 107 in reading and 107 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 10% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). Greenlands Primary School was not oversubscribed for September 2026: all 16 families who put it first were offered a place. Overall pupil absence was 10.9%. There are about 19.5 pupils per teacher. The school serves a community with above-average levels of disadvantage: about 46% 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. If you are considering Greenlands Primary School, it may be worth asking how leaders have responded to Ofsted's findings and what has changed since the inspection. 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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