East Farleigh Primary School, Maidstone

Ofsted's report card from its 9 June 2026 inspection grades East Farleigh Primary School on 7 areas: 4 strong standard, 2 expected standard and 1 needs attention. Report cards replaced single-word judgements in November 2025, on a five-point scale from exceptional to urgent improvement.

Curriculum and teaching - Strong standard. "Leaders have taken care to design an ambitious and engaging curriculum."

Early years - Strong standard. "Children make a highly successful start in the early years."

Inclusion - Strong standard. "Leaders swiftly identify pupils' needs and set about meeting them."

Personal development and wellbeing - Strong standard. "The school prepares pupils well for their next stages in education and for their lives in modern Britain."

Achievement - Expected standard. "Most pupils achieve outcomes that broadly match national averages."

Leadership and governance - Expected standard. "Leaders are ambitious for all pupils."

Attendance and behaviour - Needs attention. "Disadvantaged pupils do not attend school consistently well enough."

Safeguarding standards were met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "Leaders should refine attendance strategies for disadvantaged pupils to secure sustained improvements in attendance and reductions in persistent absence"; "Leaders should work to ensure that pupils' achievement is reflected in above-average outcomes in national tests over time".

In 2025, 73% of Year 6 pupils at East Farleigh Primary School reached the expected standard in reading and 70% in maths. At the average state primary the figures were 77% and 73% in Kent and 77% and 75% across England.

Results fell from 80% in reading and 77% in maths in 2024.

With small year groups, a few pupils can move these figures by several points.

For September 2026 entry, 29 families put East Farleigh Primary School as their first choice and 99 named it as one of their preferences, for 30 places offered. It had fewer first-choice applications than places. 2 families who put it first were not offered a place there.

The nearest other state primary schools to East Farleigh Primary School are Coxheath Primary School (1.1 miles, Good, 66% reading, 71% maths); Jubilee Primary School (1.1 miles, Outstanding, 87% reading, 87% maths); Barming Primary School (1.4 miles, Good, 64% reading, 59% maths); and West Borough Primary School (1.5 miles, Good, 67% reading, 62% maths).

East Farleigh Primary School's 2025 results were higher than 3 of these 4 schools.

16.1% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, well below the average state school (25%), and 2% speak English as an additional language, against 18.8% on average, according to the 2026 school census.

The largest ethnic groups are White British (87%) and Mixed (6%).

In 2026, 45 pupils (22.6%) received SEN support and 4 (2%) had an education, health and care plan, against 16.2% and 4.6% at the average state school. The most common need among them is speech, language and communication needs.

The nearest railway station is East Farleigh Rail Station, about 790 metres away (roughly a 10-minute walk).

In August 2026, police recorded 21 crimes within a mile of the school, most often anti-social behaviour, criminal damage and arson and violence and sexual offences. That is well below the typical figure around schools in Kent (101).

In 2024/25, East Farleigh Primary School issued 16 suspensions, 7.7 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and no permanent exclusions.

The secondary schools closest to East Farleigh Primary School are Oakwood Park Grammar School (1.6 miles) and St Augustine Academy (1.6 miles).