Barming Primary School[1]
Primary · ages 2–11
Headline results
- KS2 reading, writing & maths: expected standard
- KS2 48% 48% 2024/25[2]
Results
Primary (key stage 2)
- Expected standard (reading, writing & maths)
- 48% 2024/25[2]
- Higher standard (reading, writing & maths)
- 5% 2024/25[2]
- All results, 2021/22
- Not published[3]
- All results, 2020/21
- Not published (exams cancelled, COVID-19)[3]
- All results, 2019/20
- Not published (exams cancelled, COVID-19)[3]
Ofsted
- Latest inspection
- 24 Sep 2024[8]
- Type
- S5 Inspection[8]
- Report published
- 21 Oct 2024[8]
- Personal development
- Good[8]
- Quality of education
- Good[8]
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Good[8]
- Safeguarding is effective?
- Yes[8]
- Early years provision (where applicable)
- Good[8]
- Effectiveness of leadership and management
- Good[8]
Competition to get in
Applications and offers, Reception
- Applications per place
- 2.0 Entry Sept 2026[10]
- Applications (any preference)
- 118 Entry Sept 2026[10]
- First preferences
- 59 Entry Sept 2026[10]
- Places offered
- 60 Entry Sept 2026[10]
Character & practicalities
- Type
- Academy sponsor led[1]
- Ages
- 2–11[1]
- Boys / girls
- Mixed[1]
- Sixth form
- No[1]
- Boarding
- No boarders[1]
- Capacity
- 420[1]
- Trust
- ORCHARD ACADEMY TRUST[1]
- Local authority
- Kent[1]
- Website
- https://www.barming.kent.sch.uk/[1]
- District
- Maidstone[11]
- Postcode
- ME16 9DY[1]
- URN
- 142924[1]
School details as recorded in Get Information About Schools on 14 Oct 2026.
Pupils
- Number on roll
- 490 2024/25[12]
- English as an additional language
- 12.9% 2024/25[12]
- SEN support
- 10% 2024/25[12]
- EHC plan
- 0.8% 2024/25[12]
- Free school meals in the last 6 years
- 26.9% 2024/25[12]
Sources
- Department for Education: Get Information About Schools: all establishments. Period 2026-10-14, published 2026-10-14. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
- Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS2 final. Period 2024/25, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
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Department for Education: Key stage 2 attainment: national headlines 2021/22. Period 2021/22.
Archived copy; original.
Licence: OGL-3.0.
Quotes (2)
We will not publish key stage 2 data for academic year 2021/22 in performance tables (also known as Compare School and College Performance).
This is the first publication of key stage 2 attainment statistics since 2019 due to cancellation of 2020 and 2021 assessments during the pandemic.
- Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS2 final. Period 2023/24, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
- Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS2 final. Period 2022/23, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
- Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS2 final. Period 2018/19, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
- Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: KS2 final. Period 2017/18, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
- Ofsted: State-funded schools inspections and outcomes. Period 2024/25. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
- Ofsted: State-funded schools inspections and outcomes. Period 2018/19. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
- Department for Education: Primary and secondary school applications and offers: school level. Period Entry Sept 2026, final, published 2026-06-29. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
- Office for National Statistics: Parish to Ward to Local Authority District (May 2026) Lookup in EW. Period 2026-05-01. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.
- Department for Education: Compare School Performance download: School census. Period 2024/25, final. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.