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Wayfield Primary School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 2–11 · Academy
Wayfield Road, Chatham ME5 0HH · wayfield.medway.sch.uk · 030 0065 8230
Overview
- Ofsted
- Report card
- Dec 2025 · graded by area, with no overall grade
- Key stage 2, 2024/25
- 31%
- reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths. Medway 61%, England 62%
- Demand for places
- 1.0
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 428
- 53 over 375 places · 114%
- Local authority
- Medway
- Nursery class
- Yes
- Free school meals
- 35.6%
- First language not English
- 13.1%
- School census 2025/26
The official school record (Department for Education)
Admissions
For Reception in September 2026, 30 families put the school first and 30 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 | 30 | 30 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 48 | 48 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 48 | 45 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 60 | 67 | 1.1▲ | 88% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 53 | 50 | 0.9 | 100% |
Results
In 2024/25, 31% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of key stage 2, and 3% the higher standard. Across Medway it was 61%, and across England 62%.
Expected standard reading, writing and maths
| 2024/25 | Trend | School | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reading, writing and maths | |||
| ▼31% | 62% | ||
| ▼3% | 8% | ||
| Average scaled score | |||
| ▼101 | 106 | ||
| ▼101 | 105 | ||
| ▼99 | 105 | ||
Some years are for the predecessor school (URN 140313)
Ofsted
Ofsted inspected Wayfield Primary School on 4 December 2025 and published a report card: each area has its own grade, and there is no overall grade.
- Inclusion: Urgent improvement
- Curriculum and teaching: Urgent improvement
- Achievement: Urgent improvement
- Attendance and behaviour: Urgent improvement
- Personal development and well-being: Needs attention
- Early years: Needs attention
- Leadership and governance: Urgent improvement
- Inspected
- 4 Dec 2025
- Report card
- Safeguarding
- Not met
Graded areas
| Inclusion | Urgent improvement |
|---|---|
| Curriculum and teaching | Urgent improvement |
| Achievement | Urgent improvement |
| Attendance and behaviour | Urgent improvement |
| Personal development and well-being | Needs attention |
| Early years | Needs attention |
| Leadership and governance | Urgent improvement |
Previously: graded inspection, no overall grade, Oct 2024
Other inspections
Including inspections of the predecessor school (URN 140313), which Ofsted links to this one.
Report cards, from November 2025
Jun 2026Monitoring visit
Safeguarding Met
September 2019 to November 2025
Oct 2024No overall grade
Quality of education Requires improvement Behaviour and attitudes Requires improvement Personal development Requires improvement Leadership and management Requires improvement Early years Good Safeguarding Effective
Before September 2019
May 2019Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Personal development, behaviour and welfare Outstanding Leadership and management Good Early years Outstanding Safeguarding Effective May 2016Inadequate
Outcomes for pupils Inadequate Personal development, behaviour and welfare Inadequate Leadership and management Inadequate Early years Inadequate Safeguarding Not effective Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 140313)
What parents said
38% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (68 replies, to 6 April 2026).
- Recommend
- 38%
- Positive
- 30%
- Replies
- 68
- 16% · 6 Apr 2026
based on the 96% who raised concerns
based on 40 parents (59%) whose child was bullied
based on 18 parents (26%) with SEND