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Cuxton Community Infant School

PrimaryAges 2–7Academy

Cuxton, ME2 1EY · Medway local authority

Cuxton’s School Grade B+ better than 70% of towns in England

Getting in
57/61
first choices offered a place, 2026 (England: 93%)
How full
257 pupils
96% of its 268 places
Free school meals
6%
6 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about Cuxton Community Infant School

  • No letter for this school: the reason is below.
  • 6% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (fewer than England’s 25%)
  • Ofsted report card, May 2026: achievement expected standard, safeguarding met (shown, not graded)
  • 93% of families who put it first got a place for September 2026 (57 of 61)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (ME2 1) sold for a median £366,300; Cuxton’s is £392,500
Getting in

How hard is it to get a place at Cuxton Community Infant School?

93% of the families who put it first got a place for September 2026.

61
families put it first for September 2026
60
places offered
93%
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 (2), 2025 (6), 2026 (4). 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. The Primary First Trust sets the admissions rules. Apply through Medway council’s coordinated admissions.

Demand for primary schools nearby, September 2026

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

1.77 per place
57% got their first choice
Cuxton Community Infant
1.02 per place
93% got their first choice
0.93 per place
100% got their first choice
0.92 per place
100% got their first choice
0.90 per place
100% got their first choice

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

266 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
4.5%England 15.3%
EHC plan
1.1%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
4.1%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
6.2%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 50%Boys 50%
Its letter

No letter for Cuxton Community 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.

Report card, inspection starting May 2026.

SafeguardingMet
AchievementExpected standard
Curriculum and teachingExpected standard
InclusionStrong standard
Attendance and behaviourStrong standard
Personal development and well-beingStrong standard
Leadership and governanceExpected standard
Early yearsExpected standard

Before the report card: Ungraded inspection: School remains Good, March 2022.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Cuxton Community Infant School

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

Home prices in ME2 1, the school’s postcode sector

Cuxton property prices →
£366,300
median sale, 249 sales in 36 months · Cuxton £392,500

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£150K£200K£250K£300K£350K£400K2010201520202025ME2 1Cuxton
ME2 1Cuxton

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£520K
Semi-detached
£370K
Terraced
£310K
Flat
£231K
ME2 1Cuxton

Homes in ME2 1 sell for a little under Cuxton’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

5 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNBCA+C+Cuxton Community Infant Sch…
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Cuxton, ME2 1EY

Cuxton Community Infant School: common questions

How hard is it to get into Cuxton Community Infant School?

For September 2026, 61 families put Cuxton Community Infant School first and 57 of them were offered a place; 60 places were offered in all.

What is Cuxton Community Infant School’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection (May 2026) gave a report card: achievement expected standard, safeguarding met. Ofsted stopped giving one-word overall grades in September 2024.

How much do houses cost near Cuxton Community Infant School?

Homes in its postcode sector, ME2 1, sold for a median £366,300 over the 36 months to August 2026 (249 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; Cuxton’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.