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Greenvale Primary School

PrimaryAges 3–11Community

Chatham, ME4 5UP · Medway local authority

Chatham’s School Grade C+ better than 38% of towns in England

Getting in
30/32
first choices offered a place, 2026 (England: 93%)
How full
192 pupils
91% of its 210 places
Free school meals
53%
53 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about Greenvale Primary School

  • No letter for this school: the reason is below.
  • 53% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (more than England’s 25%)
  • Ofsted: Good, November 2023 (shown, not graded)
  • 94% of families who put it first got a place for September 2026 (30 of 32)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (ME4 5) sold for a median £220,000; Chatham’s is £280,000
Getting in

How hard is it to get a place at Greenvale Primary School?

94% of the families who put it first got a place for September 2026.

32
families put it first for September 2026
30
places offered
94%
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: 2020 (14), 2021 (2), 2022 (12), 2023 (11), 2024 (15), 2025 (12), 2026 (2). 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. Medway council sets the admissions rules. Apply through Medway council’s coordinated admissions.

Demand for primary schools in Chatham, September 2026

Outline = places offered · green = families who put it first · striped = more first choices than places · the 10 most in demand

1.17 per place
85% got their first choice
Greenvale Primary
1.07 per place
94% got their first choice
1.05 per place
92% got their first choice
1.01 per place
99% got their first choice
1.00 per place
100% got their first choice
1.00 per place
100% got their first choice
1.00 per place
100% got their first choice
1.00 per place
100% got their first choice
1.00 per place
100% got their first choice
0.98 per place
100% got their first choice

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

172 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
48.3%England 15.3%
EHC plan
4.1%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
22.7%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
50%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 47%Boys 53%
Its letter

No letter for Greenvale Primary School

No published results for this school: a new school, or a cohort small enough for DfE to suppress. No results, no letter.

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, November 2023.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Greenvale Primary School

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

Home prices in ME4 5, the school’s postcode sector

Chatham property prices →
£220,000
median sale, 312 sales in 36 months · Chatham £280,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£50K£100K£150K£200K£250K£300K2010201520202025ME4 5Chatham
ME4 5Chatham

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Semi-detached
£260K
Terraced
£220K
Flat
£168K
ME4 5Chatham

Homes in ME4 5 sell for well under Chatham’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

36 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNC+B−C−D−DA+AAA+DAD−D−B−C−C−DA−B−CC−B−C−DAB−C−D−D−D−A−C+Greenvale Primary School
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Chatham, ME4 5UP

Greenvale Primary School: common questions

How hard is it to get into Greenvale Primary School?

For September 2026, 32 families put Greenvale Primary School first and 30 of them were offered a place; 30 places were offered in all.

What is Greenvale Primary School’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection outcome is Good (November 2023).

How much do houses cost near Greenvale Primary School?

Homes in its postcode sector, ME4 5, sold for a median £220,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (312 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; Chatham’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.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (ONS boundaries). Northern Ireland: Source: NISRA; contains Land & Property Services data and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland information, © Crown copyright, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Scotland: contains National Records of Scotland data, Registers of Scotland data and SEPA data, © Crown copyright / © SEPA 2025, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.