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Bligh Primary School (Infants)

Bligh Primary School (Infants)

PrimaryAges 2–7Academy

Rochester, ME2 2XJ · 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
69/69
first choices offered a place, 2026 (England: 93%)
How full
303 pupils
112% of its 270 places
Free school meals
26%
26 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about Bligh Primary School (Infants)

  • No letter for this school: the reason is below.
  • Over capacity: 303 pupils for 270 places
  • Ofsted: Inspected, March 2025 (shown, not graded)
  • Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026 (69 of 69)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (ME2 2) sold for a median £300,000; Rochester’s is £310,000
Getting in

How hard is it to get a place at Bligh Primary School (Infants)?

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

69
families put it first for September 2026
74
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: 2024 (3). 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. Maritime Academy Trust 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
Bligh Primary School (Infants)
0.93 per place
100% got their first choice

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

309 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
13.3%England 15.3%
EHC plan
1.9%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
17.5%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
28%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 52%Boys 48%
Its letter

No letter for Bligh Primary School (Infants)

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), March 2025.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Bligh Primary School (Infants)

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

Home prices in ME2 2, the school’s postcode sector

Rochester property prices →
£300,000
median sale, 529 sales in 36 months · Rochester £310,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£100K£150K£200K£250K£300K£350K2010201520202025ME2 2Rochester
ME2 2Rochester

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£520K
Semi-detached
£315K
Terraced
£285K
Flat
£171K
ME2 2Rochester

Homes in ME2 2 sell for a little under 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

10 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNC−B−B−BCC+B+Bligh Primary School (Infan…
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Rochester, ME2 2XJ

Bligh Primary School (Infants): common questions

How hard is it to get into Bligh Primary School (Infants)?

For September 2026, 69 families put Bligh Primary School (Infants) first and all of them were offered a place; 74 places were offered in all.

What is Bligh Primary School (Infants)’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection outcome is Inspected (March 2025).

How much do houses cost near Bligh Primary School (Infants)?

Homes in its postcode sector, ME2 2, sold for a median £300,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (529 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.

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.