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Green Park Community Primary School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 4–11 · Community school
The Linces, Buckland, Dover CT16 2BN · greenparkcps.co.uk · 01304 822663
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Overview
- Ofsted
- Concerns
- Ungraded inspection · May 2023
- Key stage 2, 2024/25
- 35%
- reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths. Kent 62%, England 62%
- Demand for places
- 0.9
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 374
- 89% of 420 places
- Local authority
- Kent
- Nursery class
- No
- Free school meals
- 59.6%
- First language not English
- 9.4%
- School census 2025/26
The official school record (Department for Education)
Admissions
For Reception in September 2026, 45 families put the school first and 48 places were offered; 100% of those families were offered a place there. Admission depends on the school’s own rules.
First choices against places
| Reception | Places | First choices | Per place | % offered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2026Sept 2026 | 48 | 45 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 41 | 41 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 48 | 48 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 43 | 43 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 54 | 53 | 1 | 100% |
Results
In 2024/25, 35% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of key stage 2, and 0% the higher standard. Across Kent it was 62%, and across England 62%.
Expected standard reading, writing and maths
| 2024/25 | Trend | School | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reading, writing and maths | |||
| ▼35% | 62% | ||
| ▼0% | 8% | ||
| Average scaled score | |||
| ▼99 | 106 | ||
| ▼100 | 105 | ||
| ▼99 | 105 | ||
Ofsted
At an ungraded inspection on 25 May 2023, Ofsted’s outcome for Green Park Community Primary School was: School remains Outstanding (Concerns) - S5 Next.
- Outcome
- Concerns
- Inspected
- 24 May 2023
- Ungraded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Previously: Outstanding, graded inspection, Feb 2017
Earlier inspections
Before September 2019
Feb 2017Outstanding
Outcomes for pupils Outstanding Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Outstanding Personal development, behaviour and welfare Outstanding Leadership and management Outstanding Early years Outstanding Safeguarding Effective Jun 2012Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good
What parents said
100% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (22 replies, to 1 April 2024).
- Recommend
- 100%
- Replies
- 22
- 6% · 1 Apr 2024
based on the 86% who raised concerns
based on the 50% who had a child bullied