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Halling Primary School

PrimaryAges 5–11Academy

Halling, ME2 1ER · Medway local authority

Halling’s School Grade C− better than 21% of towns in England

Its letter
69%
of England’s primaries have lower KS2 results
Getting in
48/48
first choices offered a place, 2026 (England: 93%)
How full
391 pupils
93% of its 420 places
Free school meals
16%
16 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about Halling Primary School

  • Its own letter, B+: Key Stage 2 results better than 69% of England’s primary schools
  • 69% meet the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 7 points above England’s schools
  • Ofsted: Good, June 2023 (shown, not graded)
  • Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026 (48 of 48)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (ME2 1) sold for a median £366,300; Halling’s is £355,000

Results

DfE · Key Stage 2

Reading, writing and maths 69%

Met the expected standard, DfE’s 3-year average 2023–2025 · higher than 69% of England’s 14,979 graded primaries · Medway avg 61%

0%20%40%60%80%100%England avg 61.6%Halling Primary 69%

Each subject, 2025

Met the expected standard; the mark is England’s schools · average scaled score: reading 107, maths 105 (100 = the expected standard)

Reading85%
England’s schools 77%
Writing (teacher assessed)75%
England’s schools 73%
Maths77%
England’s schools 75%
Grammar, punctuation and spelling81%
England’s schools 74%

Disadvantaged pupils, 2025

Met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths: the 15 disadvantaged pupils and the rest, beside England’s schools

Disadvantaged
53%England 48.5%
Not disadvantaged
78%England 69.4%
Reached the higher standard in all three13%
England’s schools 8% · Medway 8% · 2025

England’s figures are of its graded mainstream state schools, each school counted once; grammar schools are included, which is why the right-hand tail is long. Small cohorts are suppressed.

Getting in

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

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

48
families put it first for September 2026
52
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: 2020 (3), 2023 (4), 2024 (1). 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. Aletheia Academies 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

1.80 per place
56% got their first choice
Halling Primary
0.92 per place
100% got their first choice
0.92 per place
96% got their first choice
0.89 per place
100% got their first choice
0.85 per place
100% got their first choice
0.80 per place
100% got their first choice

Halling and Medway, side by side

2023–2025

All 60 graded primaries in Medway. Schools with more pupils on free school meals usually score lower, so a school above the crowd for its free school meals is doing better than its intake predicts. Halling’s schools are coloured by their letter.

35%44%53%62%71%80%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%Pupils eligible for free school meals →KS2 expected standard →Halling
ABCDElsewhere in MedwayHalling Primary
Show as a table
SchoolLetterFree school mealsKS2 expected standard
The Pilgrim School (A Church of England Primary With Nursery)A+18%84%
St Margaret's at Troy Town CofE Voluntary Controlled Primary SchoolA37%78%
St Benedict's Catholic Primary SchoolA9%78%
Napier Community Primary and Nursery AcademyA−34%75%
English Martyrs' Catholic Primary SchoolA−16%75%
Walderslade Primary SchoolA−15%74%
St Michael Catholic Primary and Nursery SchoolA−29%74%
Leigh Academy Hundred of HooA−24%72%
Leigh Academy High HalstowA−9%72%
Lordswood SchoolA−22%71%
St Helen's Church of England Primary School, CliffeB+21%70%
Fairview Community Primary SchoolB+6%70%
St Thomas More Roman Catholic Primary SchoolB+16%70%
Thames View Primary SchoolB+14%69%
Halling Primary SchoolB+16%69%
St Augustine of Canterbury Catholic Primary SchoolB+13%68%
St Mary's Island Church of England (Aided) Primary SchoolB+10%68%
Elaine Primary SchoolB+54%68%
Cuxton Community Junior SchoolB13%66%
Leigh Academy Peninsula EastB23%66%
St Margaret's Church of England Junior SchoolB20%66%
Kingfisher Community Primary SchoolB−36%64%
Hilltop Primary SchoolB−20%64%
St Thomas of Canterbury RC Primary SchoolB−10%64%
All Faiths Children's AcademyB−32%63%
Gordons Children's Academy, JuniorB−33%63%
Brompton-Westbrook Primary SchoolB−34%63%
Oaklands SchoolB−41%63%
St Mary's Catholic Primary SchoolB−19%62%
Cliffe Woods Primary SchoolB−6%62%
Chattenden Primary SchoolB−35%62%
Balfour Junior SchoolB−31%62%
Hempstead Junior SchoolB−11%61%
Temple Mill Primary SchoolB−17%61%
Maundene SchoolB−27%61%
Riverside Primary SchoolC+35%60%
Bligh Primary School (Juniors)C+41%60%
St William of Perth Roman Catholic Primary SchoolC+11%60%
New Road Primary SchoolC+43%59%
Saxon Way Primary SchoolC+40%58%
The Academy of WoodlandsC40%56%
Featherby Junior SchoolC39%56%
St James Church of England Primary AcademyC30%55%
Cedar Children's AcademyC27%55%
Miers Court Primary SchoolC14%55%
All Saints Church of England Primary SchoolC36%54%
Parkwood Primary SchoolC19%54%
Delce AcademyC−54%52%
New Horizons Children's AcademyC−23%51%
Hoo St Werburgh Primary School and the MarlboroughC−24%51%
Deanwood Primary SchoolC−25%51%
Oasis Academy Skinner StreetC−47%49%
Byron Primary SchoolC−31%49%
Wayfield Primary SchoolC−36%48%
Wainscott Primary SchoolD19%45%
Twydall Primary School and NurseryD43%44%
Warren Wood Primary SchoolD40%42%
Barnsole Primary SchoolD38%42%
Luton Primary SchoolD−52%37%
Phoenix Primary SchoolD−64%36%

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

399 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
9.3%England 15.3%
EHC plan
1.5%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
7%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
17%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 52%Boys 48%
Its letter

Halling Primary School’s letter

Its own results against England’s schools, not the town’s School Grade.

Primary: KS2 reading, writing and maths B+Better than 69% of 15,230 schools
How school letters are worked out

Each school’s measure is compared with every graded school in England of the same phase: for primaries, the share of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (DfE’s three-year average); for secondaries, Attainment 8 and the share with grade 5 or above in English and maths, each turned into a z-score against England’s schools and averaged. The letter comes from the share of those schools it beats, in the same bands as every grade on the site. The same method gives U.S. schools their letters, against their own state.

A+ 95+A 85–94A− 75–84B+ 65–74B 55–64B− 45–54C+ 35–44C 25–34C− 15–24D 5–14D− 0–4

Graded: England’s open mainstream state schools with published results (grammar schools included, which select by test). Not graded: special schools, alternative provision, nurseries, 16–19 colleges, UTCs and studio schools, Welsh schools. Ofsted plays no part.

Ofsted

Ofsted inspections

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

Graded inspection: Good, June 2023.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Halling Primary 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

Halling property prices →
£366,300
median sale, 249 sales in 36 months · Halling £355,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

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

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

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

Homes in ME2 1 sell for a little over Halling’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 miNDCAC−DB+Halling Primary School
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Halling, ME2 1ER

Halling Primary School: common questions

Is Halling Primary School a good school?

By its published results, above average: its Key Stage 2 results are better than 69% of England’s primary schools (its letter is B+), with 69% of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, against 62% for England’s schools. Ofsted: Good, June 2023.

How hard is it to get into Halling Primary School?

For September 2026, 48 families put Halling Primary School first and all of them were offered a place; 52 places were offered in all.

What is Halling Primary School’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection outcome is Good (June 2023).

How much do houses cost near Halling Primary 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; Halling’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.