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Rochester Riverside Church of England Primary School

Rochester Riverside Church of England Primary School

PrimaryAges 3–11Free schoolChurch of England

Rochester, ME1 1US · Medway local authority

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

Photo: Stephen Kennard · CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
Getting in
58/72
first choices offered a place, 2026 (England: 93%)
How full
298 pupils
67% of its 446 places
Free school meals
19%
19 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about Rochester Riverside Church of England Primary School

  • No letter for this school: the reason is below.
  • Room to spare: 298 pupils for 446 places
  • Ofsted: Inspected, July 2025 (shown, not graded)
  • 81% of families who put it first got a place for September 2026 (58 of 72)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (ME1 1) sold for a median £281,500; Rochester’s is £310,000
Getting in

How hard is it to get a place at Rochester Riverside Church of England Primary School?

81% of the families who put it first got a place for September 2026.

72
families put it first for September 2026
59
places offered
81%
of first choices offered a place (England’s primaries: 93%)
First choices and places, by year of entry
2023202420252026
Families who put it firstPlaces offered
Red figures: first choices not offered a place

Years when some first choices missed out: 2026 (14). 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 Pilgrim Multi 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
Rochester Riverside CofE Primary
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
0.93 per place
100% got their first choice

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

238 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
19.3%England 15.3%
EHC plan
1.3%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
12.6%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
24.4%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 53%Boys 47%
Its letter

No letter for Rochester Riverside Church of England 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), July 2025.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Rochester Riverside Church of England Primary School

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

Home prices in ME1 1, the school’s postcode sector

Rochester property prices →
£281,500
median sale, 314 sales in 36 months · Rochester £310,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£100K£150K£200K£250K£300K£350K2010201520202025ME1 1Rochester
ME1 1Rochester

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£588K
Semi-detached
£510K
Terraced
£435K
Flat
£220K
ME1 1Rochester

Homes in ME1 1 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

27 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNC+C−A+AA+B−D−B−B−B−CB−AB−B+DC−A−A−C+Rochester Riverside Church …
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Rochester, ME1 1US

Rochester Riverside Church of England Primary School: common questions

How hard is it to get into Rochester Riverside Church of England Primary School?

For September 2026, 72 families put Rochester Riverside Church of England Primary School first and 58 of them were offered a place; 59 places were offered in all.

What is Rochester Riverside Church of England Primary School’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection outcome is Inspected (July 2025).

How much do houses cost near Rochester Riverside Church of England Primary School?

Homes in its postcode sector, ME1 1, sold for a median £281,500 over the 36 months to August 2026 (314 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.