Fleetdown Primary Academy

Academy converter·Primary school Dartford, Kent·DA2 6JX
Composite score
43.9
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#9,520
National rank
#1420
In South East
#285
In Kent
Top 64%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
64%
% achieving higher RWM
2%
Reading average scaled score
107.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
106.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

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

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
67 first choices, 76 places
First choices per place
0.88
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
135
any preference, for 76 places
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.03
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1 per place
0.7620220.9120230.8720240.8620250.882026

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

Every child who put Fleetdown Primary Academy 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
4–11
Pupils on roll
648
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
14.7%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
25.9%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
9.9%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
4.2%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
5.0%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
11.8%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
25.1
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£5,000
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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School overview

Fleetdown Primary Academy is a primary school serving Dartford, Kent, classified by the DfE as a converter academy. It has 648 pupils aged 4 to 11 on roll. 64% 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 10.0 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 107 in reading and 106 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 2% 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 Fleetdown Primary Academy their first choice was offered one of its 76 Reception places. Overall pupil absence was 5.0%. There are about 25.1 pupils per teacher. Fleetdown Primary Academy 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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