Academy converter · Primary
Tonbridge · TN11 9NG · Kent
Ages 4–11
Status: Open
0.3 miles away
OpenPrimaryURN 118575
Long Mead Community Primary School
Foundation school · Tonbridge · TN10 3JU
Phase
Primary
Age range
Ages 2–11
Pupils
143
Local authority
Kent
Age range
Ages 2–11
05111619
Provision snapshot
Based on official GIAS characteristics
1 / 6
- NurseryHas Nursery Classes
- Sixth formDoes not have a sixth form
- BoardingNo boarders
- Special school
- Independent
- Academy
Local context
How this school sits among open establishments in its area, using official GIAS records. These are counts, not rankings.
Mixed foundation school (primary), Ages 2–11, in Tonbridge, Kent, 143 pupils on roll. Notable characteristics: nursery. Free school meals: 60.3%.
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Overview
- School type
- Foundation school
- Phase
- Primary
- Age range
- 2–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Status
- Open
- URN
- 118575
Location
- Address
- Waveney Road
- Postcode
- TN10 3JU
- Town
- Tonbridge
- County
- Kent
- Local authority
- Kent
- District
- Tonbridge and Malling
- Constituency
- Tonbridge
- Urban/rural
- Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
Size & intake
Pupil numbers and free school meals come from the GIAS school census fields. Capacity fill is calculated when both pupils and capacity are published. Census date: 15 Jan 2026.
- Pupils on roll
- 143
- Boys / girls
- 67 / 76
- School capacity
- 210
- Capacity fill
- 143 / 210 (68%)
- Free school meals
- 60.3%
- FSM pupils
- 73
- Gender
- Mixed
School characteristics
- Nursery provision
- Has Nursery Classes
- Sixth form
- Does not have a sixth form
- Boarding
- No boarders
- Special classes
- No Special Classes
- Governance
- Supported by a trust
Contact
- Headteacher
- Mrs Karen Follows
- Telephone
- 01732350601
Official links
Ofsted
Latest inspection outcomes from Ofsted monthly management information. Report-card grades use the current framework where published; older OEIF grades are shown when that is the latest graded inspection.
Headline
Not judged
Inspection date
2025-04-01
- Overall effectiveness
- Not judged
- Quality of education
- Requires improvement
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Good
- Personal development
- Good
- Leadership and management
- Good
- Safeguarding effective
- Yes
Performance
Official school-level results from DfE school and college performance tables. Figures are not rankings — suppressed or unavailable values are omitted.
Key stage 2 (2023/24)
- Expected standard (RWM)
- 50%
- Higher standard (RWM)
- 0%
- Avg scaled score — reading
- 103.0
- Avg scaled score — maths
- 105.0
- Avg scaled score — GPS
- 101.0