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St Crispin's Infant School

PrimaryAges 4–7Academy

Margate, CT8 8EB · Kent local authority

Margate’s School Grade D better than 6% of towns in England

Getting in
41/41
first choices offered a place, 2026 (England: 93%)
How full
193 pupils
71% of its 270 places
Free school meals
29%
29 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about St Crispin's Infant School

  • No letter for this school: the reason is below.
  • Room to spare: 193 pupils for 270 places
  • Ofsted: Inspected, January 2025 (shown, not graded)
  • Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026 (41 of 41)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (CT8 8) sold for a median £270,000; Margate’s is £288,500
Getting in

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

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

41
families put it first for September 2026
45
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

In every year shown, every family who put it first was offered a place. 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 Stour Academy Trust sets the admissions rules. Apply through Kent council’s coordinated admissions.

Demand for primary schools in Margate, September 2026

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

1.43 per place
70% got their first choice
1.20 per place
82% got their first choice
0.93 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
0.92 per place
100% got their first choice
St Crispin's Infant
0.91 per place
100% got their first choice
0.90 per place
100% got their first choice
0.90 per place
100% got their first choice
0.73 per place
100% got their first choice
Its letter

No letter for St Crispin'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 (no overall grade since September 2024), January 2025. Ungraded inspection: School remains Good, September 2019.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near St Crispin's Infant School

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

Home prices in CT8 8, the school’s postcode sector

Margate property prices →
£270,000
median sale, 374 sales in 36 months · Margate £288,500

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£100K£150K£200K£250K£300K2010201520202025CT8 8Margate
CT8 8Margate

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£420K
Semi-detached
£310K
Terraced
£300K
Flat
£167K
CT8 8Margate

Homes in CT8 8 sell for a little under Margate’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

6 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNCB−CDDC−St Crispin's Infant School
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Margate, CT8 8EB

St Crispin's Infant School: common questions

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

For September 2026, 41 families put St Crispin's Infant School first and all of them were offered a place; 45 places were offered in all.

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

Its latest inspection outcome is Inspected (January 2025).

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

Homes in its postcode sector, CT8 8, sold for a median £270,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (374 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; Margate’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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