Leigh Academy Bearsted[1]
Primary · ages 3–11
Headline results
- KS2 reading, writing & maths: expected standard
- KS2 75% 75% 2024/25[2]
Results
Primary (key stage 2)
- Expected standard (reading, writing & maths)
- 75% 2024/25[2]
- Higher standard (reading, writing & maths)
- 4% 2024/25[2]
- Reading, average scaled score
- 106 2024/25[2]
- Maths, average scaled score
- 105 2024/25[2]
Ofsted
- Latest inspection
- 24 Jan 2023[3]
- Type
- S5 Inspection[3]
- Report published
- 12 Mar 2023[3]
- Personal development
- Outstanding[3]
- Quality of education
- Outstanding[3]
- Overall effectiveness
- Outstanding[3]
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Outstanding[3]
- Safeguarding is effective
- Yes[3]
- Early years provision (where applicable)
- Outstanding[3]
- Effectiveness of leadership and management
- Outstanding[3]
Competition to get in
Applications and offers, Reception
- Applications per place
- 3.3 Entry Sept 2026[4]
- Applications (any preference)
- 154 Entry Sept 2026[4]
- First preferences
- 36 Entry Sept 2026[4]
- Places offered
- 47 Entry Sept 2026[4]
- First preferences per place
- 0.8 Entry Sept 2026[4]
Character & practicalities
- Type
- Free schools[1]
- Ages
- 3–11[1]
- Boys / girls
- Mixed[1]
- Admissions
- Non-selective[1]
- Sixth form
- No[1]
- Boarding
- No boarders[1]
- Capacity
- 446[1]
- Trust
- LEIGH ACADEMIES TRUST[1]
- Local authority
- Kent[1]
- Website
- https://bearstedprimaryacademy.org.uk/[1]
- District
- Maidstone[5]
- Postcode
- ME14 5GA[1]
- URN
- 147866[1]
School details as recorded in Get Information About Schools on 14 Oct 2026.
Pupils
- Number on roll
- 390 2024/25[6]
- English as an additional language
- 27.2% 2024/25[6]
- SEN support
- 13.6% 2024/25[6]
- EHC plan
- 1.3% 2024/25[6]
- Free school meals in the last 6 years
- 11.1% 2024/25[6]
Pupils' ethnicity 2025/26
- White
- 70.4%[7]
- Mixed
- 12.6%[7]
- Asian
- 7%[7]
- Black
- 8.3%[7]
- Any other ethnic group
- 1.5%[7]
- Unclassified
- 0.2%[7]
The school census's major ethnic groups as shares of the school's pupils, summed by us from the published counts. For information only: never used to rank, filter or colour schools.
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.
- Ofsted: State-funded schools inspections and outcomes. Period 2022/23. 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.
- Department for Education: Schools, pupils and their characteristics: school level underlying data. Period 2025/26, published 2026-06-04. Publication page. Data file. Licence: OGL-3.0.