Fairchildes Primary School

Primary · state · ages 2–11 · 497 pupils · CR0 0AH · FAIRCHILDES ACADEMY COMMUNITY TRUST

OutstandingOfstedInspected Feb 2024

12%KS2 higher standardEngland median 7%

0.9Applications per placeFirst choices, Reception 2026

70%KS2 expected standardEngland median 64%

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Resourced provision for Autism (ASD), Moderate learning difficulty (33 places). 37.1% of pupils eligible for free school meals.

Results at age 11 (2024/25)

% meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths70% (typical 64%)

% at the higher standard in reading, writing and maths12% (typical 7%)

% meeting the expected standard, 3-year average (2023–2025)68% (typical 62%)

Average scaled scores: reading 105, maths 107.

How hard is it to get in?

For Reception in September 2026, 50 families put it first for 58 places (0.9 first choices per place). 100% of the families who put it first got a place.

Entry	Places	First choices	Per place	First choices offered a place
Reception, 2024	60	59	1.0	98%
Reception, 2025	60	55	0.9	98%
Reception, 2026	58	50	0.9	100%

Money

£8,317spent per pupil (typical primary £7,238)

78%of spending on staff, 43% on teachers

£823krevenue reserve (21% of a year's income)

−£7kdeficit in the year

Income £3.9m, spending £3.9m (September 2024 to August 2025, 473 pupils).

Run by Fairchildes Academy Community Trust, a trust of 3 academies and 980 pupils. The trust holds reserves of £1.1m, 13% of its income. Its accounts at Companies House.

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About these figures

Typical means the median state-funded school in England. In the bars, the fill is this school and the black line is the typical school.
Scaled scores: 100 is the expected standard and 120 is the top.
11+ pass rate: passing isn't the same as a grammar place, and not every child sits the test, so the share passing depends on who chose to sit. Small numbers are hidden by the council as published. How grammar admissions work.
Applications per place are first choices. They are national offer day figures; places can change later through waiting lists and appeals.
Living nearby doesn't guarantee a place. Admissions are set by the council or the school, and rules such as catchment, siblings and faith decide who gets in: check its admissions policy and how far away the last places went in recent years.
Spending per pupil mostly follows funding for deprivation, special needs and London weighting, so higher isn't the same as better. Small schools and sixth forms cost more per pupil.

Department for Education performance data 2024/25 and register of schools; Ofsted inspections to August 2026. Open Government Licence. Applications: DfE applications and offers. Money: Department for Education academies accounts return, 2024-25; Open Government Licence. 11+ results: Medway Council FOI000433 (WhatDoTheyKnow request medway_test_medway_and_out_of_ca), 2022; Medway Council FOI005534 INF005491 (WhatDoTheyKnow, Apr 2026).

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11+ results

Pupils from this school who sat the Medway Test, and how many were assessed suitable for grammar school.

Test sat	Sat the test	Passed	Share passing
Autumn 2025for September 2026	boys blank; girls < 5	boys blank; girls < 5	–
Autumn 2024for September 2025	boys < 5; girls 0	boys < 5; girls 0	–
Autumn 2022for September 2023	< 5	< 5	–

Entry

Places

First choices

Per place

First choices offered a place

Reception, 2024

1.0

98%

Reception, 2025

0.9

98%

Reception, 2026

0.9

100%