Dymchurch Primary School
Academy converter · Romney Marsh · TN29 0LE
Ages 4–11 · 169 pupils · Kent
Ofsted
Not judged
KS2 expected (RWM)
55%
Overall absence
6.2%
Admissions demand
0.86 · Often has places
Ofsted
Latest published inspection outcomes — not a ranking.
Headline
Not judged
Inspection date
2024-10-01
- Overall effectiveness
- Not judged
- Quality of education
- Good
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Outstanding
- Personal development
- Outstanding
- Leadership and management
- Good
- Safeguarding effective
- Yes
Performance
Official school-level results. Figures are not rankings — suppressed values are omitted.
Key stage 2 (2023/24)
- Avg scaled score — reading
- 103.0
- Avg scaled score — maths
- 101.0
- Avg scaled score — GPS
- 100.0
Absence
Academic year 2023/24. Persistent absence means 10%+ of sessions missed. Lower figures are better.
- Authorised absence
- 4.5%
- Severe absence (50%+)
- 1.4%
- Enrolments in measure
- 147
Absence trend
2021/22
2022/23
2023/24
- Overall
- Persistent (10%+)
Admissions demand
Coordinated admissions for primary entry (2024/25 cycle, national offer day). Demand ratio compares families who listed this school 1st with total offers made — not a catchment or distance guarantee.
Demand ratio
0.86 · Often has places
1st preferences
19
Places offered
26
1st-preference offers
19
- Total preferences (any rank)
- 47
- Preferred offers (top 3)
- 22
- Applications from outside LA
- 0
- Offers to outside-LA applicants
- 0
Source: DfE primary and secondary school applications and offers. Figures reflect offers on national offer day; late applications, appeals and waiting lists are not included.
Size & intake
From the GIAS school census (15 Jan 2026).
169 pupils · 311 places
- Pupils on roll
- 169
- Boys / girls
- 88 / 81
- School capacity
- 311
- Capacity fill
- 169 / 311 (54%)
- Free school meals
- 49.1%
- FSM pupils
- 83
- Gender
- Mixed
- School type
- Academy converter
Age range
Ages 4–11
Provision
Official GIAS characteristics
1 / 6
- Nursery
- Sixth form
- Boarding
- Special school
- Independent
- Academy
School characteristics
- Special classes
- No Special Classes
- Governance
- Academy trust: OUR COMMUNITY MULTI ACADEMY TRUST
- Academy trust
- OUR COMMUNITY MULTI ACADEMY TRUST
- Headteacher
- Mrs Nicki Man
Location
- Address
- New Hall Close, Dymchurch
- Postcode
- TN29 0LE
- Town
- Romney Marsh
- County
- Kent
- Local authority
- Kent
- District
- Folkestone and Hythe
- Constituency
- Folkestone and Hythe
- Urban/rural
- Larger rural: Nearer to a major town or city
Local context
How this school sits among open establishments in its area, using official GIAS records. These are counts, not rankings.
Mixed academy converter (primary), Ages 4–11, in Romney Marsh, Kent, 169 pupils on roll. Notable characteristics: academy. Free school meals: 49.1%.
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Contact
- Headteacher
- Mrs Nicki Man
- Telephone
- 01303872377