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St Nicholas CEVC Primary School

St Nicholas CEVC Primary School

PrimaryAges 4–11Voluntary controlledChurch of England

Rochester, ME2 3HU · Medway local authority

Rochester’s School Grade B+ better than 68% of towns in England

Photo: ClemRutter · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Getting in
18/18
first choices offered a place, 2026 (England: 93%)
How full
156 pupils
87% of its 180 places
Free school meals
27%
27 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about St Nicholas CEVC Primary School

  • No letter for this school: the reason is below.
  • Ofsted: Inspected, June 2025 (shown, not graded)
  • Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026 (18 of 18)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (ME2 3) sold for a median £325,000; Rochester’s is £310,000
Getting in

How hard is it to get a place at St Nicholas CEVC Primary School?

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

18
families put it first for September 2026
22
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: 2023 (5), 2024 (4), 2025 (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 Rochester, September 2026

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

1.77 per place
57% got their first choice
1.25 per place
74% got their first choice
1.22 per place
81% got their first choice
1.20 per place
81% got their first choice
1.17 per place
77% got their first choice
1.07 per place
93% got their first choice
0.96 per place
100% got their first choice
0.96 per place
100% got their first choice
0.96 per place
100% got their first choice
St Nicholas CEVC Primary
0.82 per place
100% got their first choice

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

148 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
16.9%England 15.3%
EHC plan
1.4%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
19.6%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
23%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 53%Boys 47%
Its letter

No letter for St Nicholas CEVC 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 (no overall grade since September 2024), June 2025.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near St Nicholas CEVC Primary School

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

Home prices in ME2 3, the school’s postcode sector

Rochester property prices →
£325,000
median sale, 450 sales in 36 months · Rochester £310,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£100K£150K£200K£250K£300K£350K2010201520202025ME2 3Rochester
ME2 3Rochester

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£523K
Semi-detached
£360K
Terraced
£270K
Flat
£132K
ME2 3Rochester

Homes in ME2 3 sell for a little over Rochester’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

17 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNC−AB−B−B−CC+AB−B+DA−St Nicholas CEVC Primary Sc…
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Rochester, ME2 3HU

St Nicholas CEVC Primary School: common questions

How hard is it to get into St Nicholas CEVC Primary School?

For September 2026, 18 families put St Nicholas CEVC Primary School first and all of them were offered a place; 22 places were offered in all.

What is St Nicholas CEVC Primary School’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection outcome is Inspected (June 2025).

How much do houses cost near St Nicholas CEVC Primary School?

Homes in its postcode sector, ME2 3, sold for a median £325,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (450 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; Rochester’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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