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Tenterden Infant School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 5–11 · Academy
Recreation Ground Road, Tenterden TN30 6RA · tenterdenprimaryfederation.kent.sch.uk · 01580 762086
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Overview
- Ofsted
- Remains Good
- Ungraded inspection · Jul 2024
- Demand for places
- 0.9
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 124
- 59% of 211 places
- Local authority
- Kent
- Free school meals
- 31.5%
- First language not English
- 4.8%
- School census 2025/26
The official school record (Department for Education)
Admissions
For Reception in September 2026, 24 families put the school first and 28 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 | 28 | 24 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 40 | 40 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 37 | 36 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 43 | 41 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 60 | 58 | 1 | 100% |
Ofsted
At an ungraded inspection on 10 July 2024, Ofsted’s outcome for Tenterden Infant School was: School remains Good.
- Outcome
- Remains Good
- Inspected
- 10 Jul 2024
- Ungraded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Previously: Remains Good, ungraded inspection, Feb 2019
Earlier inspections
Before September 2019
Feb 2019Ungraded inspectionRemains Good
Safeguarding Effective Feb 2012Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good Oct 2006Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good Early years Good
What parents said
88% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (32 replies, to 7 April 2025).
- Recommend
- 88%
- Replies
- 32
- 22% · 7 Apr 2025
based on the 62% who raised concerns
based on the 37% who had a child bullied