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Istead Rise Primary School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 4–11 · Sponsored academy
Downs Road, Northfleet, Gravesend DA13 9HG · 01474 833177
On the mapSearch near DA13 9HG
Overview
- Ofsted
- Remains Good
- Ungraded inspection · Feb 2024
- Key stage 2, 2024/25
- 83%
- reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths. Kent 62%, England 62%
- Demand for places
- 1.9
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 211
- 1 over 210 places · 100%
- Local authority
- Kent
- Nursery class
- No
- Free school meals
- 13.7%
- First language not English
- 1.4%
- School census 2025/26
The official school record (Department for Education)
Admissions
For Reception in September 2026, 57 families put the school first and 30 places were offered; 53% 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 | 30 | 57 | 1.9▲ | 53% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 30 | 44 | 1.5▲ | 68% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 30 | 39 | 1.3▲ | 77% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 30 | 42 | 1.4▲ | 71% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 30 | 48 | 1.6▲ | 63% |
Results
In 2024/25, 83% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of key stage 2, and 7% 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 | |||
| ▲83% | 62% | ||
| ●7% | 8% | ||
| Average scaled score | |||
| ●107 | 106 | ||
| ▲108 | 105 | ||
| ▼102 | 105 | ||
Ofsted
At an ungraded inspection on 28 February 2024, Ofsted’s outcome for Istead Rise Primary School was: School remains Good.
- Outcome
- Remains Good
- Inspected
- 27 Feb 2024
- Ungraded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Previously: Good, graded inspection, Sept 2018
Earlier inspections
Including inspections of the predecessor school (URN 118452), which Ofsted links to this one.
Before September 2019
Sept 2018Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Personal development, behaviour and welfare Outstanding Leadership and management Outstanding Early years Outstanding Safeguarding Effective Feb 2013Inadequate
Outcomes for pupils Inadequate Leadership and management Inadequate Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 118452)
What parents said
95% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (21 replies, to 6 January 2025).
- Recommend
- 95%
- Replies
- 21
- 10% · 6 Jan 2025
based on the 52% who raised concerns
based on the 19% who had a child bullied