St Margaret's-at-Cliffe Primary School
Sea Street, Dover, CT15 6SS
171 pupils · 81% of 210 capacity
- Phase
- Primary
- Type
- Community school
- Ages
- 4–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Religious character
- Does not apply
- Local authority
- Kent
- Free school meals
- 11.7%
Ofsted
No overall grade (2025) — Inspected 2024–2025 — no overall grade under the interim framework
This school has not yet been inspected under the report-card system introduced in November 2025. When it is, this section will show a grade for each area — Ofsted says the new grades do not map onto the old ones, so we do not predict them.
Inspected 21 January 2025, published 2 March 2025. Read the full Ofsted report
England has three coexisting inspection systems — how we translate them into one signal.
Exam results
| Measure | 2024/25 |
|---|---|
| Reaching the expected standard in reading, writing & maths | 52% |
| Reaching the higher standard | 0% |
“Not published (small cohort)” means the DfE suppressed the figure to protect small cohorts — it is not a zero.
Will my child get in?
Usually has places available — 0.89 first-choice applications per place (Sept 2026 entry)
| Entry | Places | 1st preferences | Total preferences | Offers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sept 2026 entry | 19 | 17 | 34 | 18 |
| Sept 2025 entry | 24 | 24 | 37 | 24 |
| Sept 2024 entry | 19 | 17 | 40 | 19 |
| Sept 2023 entry | 17 | 17 | 30 | 17 |
| Sept 2022 entry | 27 | 26 | 45 | 27 |
| Sept 2021 entry | 28 | 28 | 43 | 28 |
| Sept 2020 entry | 29 | 29 | 48 | 29 |
| Sept 2019 entry | 23 | 22 | 36 | 23 |
First-choice demand varies year to year, and the school’s admission criteria — not demand — decide who is offered a place. Use this as a rough signal, never a prediction.
Nearby alternatives
- Langdon Primary School 3.2 km · Standards maintained (2025)
- Kingsdown and Ringwould Church of England Primary School 3.9 km · Outstanding (2023) · previous system
- Guston Church of England Primary School 4.1 km · Good — confirmed 2021 · previous system
- Dover, St Mary's Church of England Primary School 4.9 km · No overall grade (2025)
- St Richard's Catholic Primary School 5 km · Good — confirmed 2022 · previous system
- Charlton Church of England Primary School 5.2 km · Good — confirmed 2023 · previous system
Straight-line distance — not travel time, and not a catchment. Same phase, open schools only.
Data from DfE and Ofsted open data (OGL v3) — sources. School record updated 10 July 2026. Report incorrect data.