Garlinge Primary School and Nursery

Garlinge Primary School and Nursery is performing well overall, with a good rating in multiple areas including the quality of education, behaviour and attitudes, leadership, and management. The school demonstrates notable strengths in personal development, which has been rated as outstanding. Pupils show strong engagement in their learning, exhibit positive behaviour, and have a clear understanding of diversity and community values. The school has also implemented effective support mechanisms for pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND), ensuring their inclusion in all school activities.

Strengths

• Pupils behave and concentrate very well in a warm and inclusive environment.
• The curriculum is ambitious and carefully sequenced to build knowledge and skills over time.
• Teachers effectively teach phonics and provide good support for struggling readers.
• Pupils develop resilience and independence through well-planned personal development opportunities.
• Parents positively acknowledge the school's support for individual needs.

Areas for Improvement

• In some subjects, teachers' subject knowledge is not strong enough, affecting planned activities.

Admissions: local authority offers data from the Department for Education. A school is oversubscribed when at least 5% of the families who put it first were not offered a place, and undersubscribed when everyone who put it first got in but 10% or more of its places were unfilled in the Department's school capacity survey (the latest survey is used for entry years it does not cover). Places: Department for Education, School capacity, from local authorities' annual survey as at 1 May. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024–25); the survey was not run in 2020. Places include sixth form places. Forecasts are the local authority's own for the school's planning area, an area it uses to plan places that is not the school's catchment area. The forecast starts from a head count in 2025; the dashed line is the Department's estimate of places in that area, including those the authority has firm plans for. Planned places are cumulative, and only those with firm plans are counted.

In 2024–25 pupils at Garlinge Primary School and Nursery attended 93.3% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 20.5% of pupils were persistently absent, missing at least one session in ten (nationally 13.0%).

Sessions missed

Pupils persistently absent

Source: Department for Education, Pupil absence in schools in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). Persistent absence means missing 10% or more of sessions; severe absence means 50% or more. No figures were published for 2019/20.

In 2024–25, 1.1% of pupils at Garlinge Primary School and Nursery were suspended at least once (nationally 1.1%). No pupils were permanently excluded.

Pupils suspended at least once

Source: Department for Education, Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). A pupil can be suspended more than once, so suspensions per 100 pupils can be higher than the share of pupils suspended. Very small numbers are hidden by the DfE. Exclusion figures dropped in 2020 and 2021 because of school closures.

In 2025–26 Garlinge Primary School and Nursery had 19.6 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 2.8% were no longer at the school a year later (nationally 15.7%).

Pupils per teacher

Teachers who left the school within a year

Source: Department for Education, School workforce in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). Pupils per teacher counts full-time-equivalent pupils and teachers. Turnover is the share of a year's teachers (full-time equivalent) who were not at the school the following year, whether they moved to another school or left state-funded teaching. Turnover and sickness figures run one year behind the ratios. Sick leave is the share of teachers who took at least one day in the year, so it swings widely at small schools, where a few teachers can make it 0% or 100%. The national figures are for all state schools of the same type.

In 2025–26, 14.6% of pupils at Garlinge Primary School and Nursery were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 8.5% had an education, health and care (EHC) plan (nationally 4.1%).

The school has resourced provision with 30 pupils.

Pupils by main type of need

Source: Department for Education, Special educational needs in England (the 2025–26 school census). SEN support is extra help in school without an EHC plan. National figures are for all state-funded primary schools. Counts are as published, with small numbers not hidden.

In 2025–26 Garlinge Primary School and Nursery received £8,302 and spent £8,464 for each of its 718 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £391,000 (£545 per pupil).

Income per pupil

Spending per pupil

Source: Department for Education, Financial Benchmarking and Insights Tool. Each year is the one the financial year ends in (2024 is 2023–24).

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All schools in Margate · Kent local authority: places and applications

Garlinge Primary School and Nursery is part of Thanet Endeavour Learning Trust, which runs 4 schools. The nearest others:

• Bromstone Primary School, Broadstairs Broadstairs
• St Mildred's Primary Infant School Broadstairs
• Parkside Community Foundation Primary School Canterbury

What is Garlinge Primary School and Nursery's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Garlinge Primary School and Nursery is Good, from an inspection in January 2024.

When was Garlinge Primary School and Nursery last inspected by Ofsted?

Garlinge Primary School and Nursery was last inspected in January 2024.

How many pupils does Garlinge Primary School and Nursery have?

Garlinge Primary School and Nursery has 726 pupils on roll.

What age range does Garlinge Primary School and Nursery cover?

Garlinge Primary School and Nursery for pupils aged 3 to 11.

What are Garlinge Primary School and Nursery's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 56% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Garlinge Primary School and Nursery?

Garlinge Primary School and Nursery is at Westfield Road, Margate, Kent, CT9 5PA.