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St Stephen's Infant School

PrimaryAges 5–7Academy

Canterbury, CT2 7AB · Kent local authority

Canterbury’s School Grade B− better than 49% of towns in England

Getting in
63/63
first choices offered a place, 2026 (England: 93%)
How full
263 pupils
97% of its 270 places
Free school meals
33%
33 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about St Stephen's Infant School

  • No letter for this school: the reason is below.
  • Ofsted: Good, January 2024 (shown, not graded)
  • Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026 (63 of 63)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (CT2 7) sold for a median £316,500; Canterbury’s is £300,000
Getting in

How hard is it to get a place at St Stephen's Infant School?

Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026.

63
families put it first for September 2026
69
places offered
100%
of first choices offered a place (England’s primaries: 93%)
First choices and places, by year of entry
20192020202120222023202420252026
Families who put it firstPlaces offered
Red figures: first choices not offered a place

Years when some first choices missed out: 2019 (9), 2020 (17), 2021 (7). The council runs the coordinated admissions; each school’s rules (siblings, distance, faith) decide who gets in. DfE doesn’t publish the furthest distance offered, so check the council’s admissions booklet for that. Turner Schools sets the admissions rules. Apply through Kent council’s coordinated admissions.

Demand for primary schools in Canterbury, September 2026

Outline = places offered · green = families who put it first · striped = more first choices than places

1.33 per place
73% got their first choice
1.27 per place
76% got their first choice
1.10 per place
88% got their first choice
0.97 per place
86% got their first choice
0.91 per place
100% got their first choice
St Stephen's Infant
0.91 per place
100% got their first choice
0.91 per place
100% got their first choice
0.87 per place
100% got their first choice
0.81 per place
100% got their first choice

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

254 pupils. SEN support is extra help in school for a special educational need; an EHC plan is the council’s legal plan for pupils who need more.

SEN support
15.4%England 15.3%
EHC plan
2%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
33.5%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
33.1%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 48%Boys 52%
Its letter

No letter for St Stephen's Infant School

An infant school: pupils move on at 7, before the Key Stage 2 tests at 11, so there are no results to grade.

Letters go to England’s open mainstream state schools with published Key Stage 2 or GCSE results (grammar schools included), each against the schools of its own phase.

Ofsted

Ofsted inspections

Shown, not graded: Ofsted is never part of a letter or the School Grade.

Graded inspection: Good, January 2024. Ungraded inspection: School remains Good, October 2019.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near St Stephen's Infant School

For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.

Home prices in CT2 7, the school’s postcode sector

Canterbury property prices →
£316,500
median sale, 286 sales in 36 months · Canterbury £300,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£150K£200K£250K£300K£350K2010201520202025CT2 7Canterbury
CT2 7Canterbury

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£522K
Semi-detached
£363K
Terraced
£291K
Flat
£180K
CT2 7Canterbury

Homes in CT2 7 sell for a little over Canterbury’s typical price. HM Land Registry Price Paid, standard sales. Catchments aren’t published, so the postcode sector stands in for “around the school”.

Schools within 1.6 miles

12 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNAD−B−A−C+D−DCC−D−A+St Stephen's Infant School
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Canterbury, CT2 7AB

St Stephen's Infant School: common questions

How hard is it to get into St Stephen's Infant School?

For September 2026, 63 families put St Stephen's Infant School first and all of them were offered a place; 69 places were offered in all.

What is St Stephen's Infant School’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection outcome is Good (January 2024).

How much do houses cost near St Stephen's Infant School?

Homes in its postcode sector, CT2 7, sold for a median £316,500 over the 36 months to August 2026 (286 sales).

Sources: DfE Get Information about Schools (16 October 2026), Key Stage 2 performance tables (2023–2025, three-year average) and Key Stage 4 (2025/26, provisional); Ofsted state-funded school inspections as at 30 September 2026. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Also: DfE Key Stage 4 performance, schools data (2023/24 and 2024/25 final, 2025/26 provisional) and Key Stage 2 performance tables 2024/25 by subject; DfE school census, January 2025; DfE school-level applications and offers, September 2019 to 2026 entry; HM Land Registry Price Paid by postcode sector, 2010 to August 2026.

A school’s letter is our own summary of its published results against England’s schools of the same phase; Canterbury’s School Grade is a separate grade, built from the results of the schools in and around the town against other towns. Map: © OpenStreetMap contributors.

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