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Riverhead Infants' School

PrimaryAges 5–7Community

Sevenoaks, TN13 2AS · Kent local authority

Sevenoaks’s School Grade B+ better than 72% of towns in England

Getting in
80/89
first choices offered a place, 2026 (England: 93%)
How full
264 pupils
98% of its 270 places
Free school meals
2%
2 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about Riverhead Infants' School

  • No letter for this school: the reason is below.
  • 2% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (fewer than England’s 25%)
  • Ofsted: Good, March 2023 (shown, not graded)
  • 90% of families who put it first got a place for September 2026 (80 of 89)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (TN13 2) sold for a median £672,000; Sevenoaks’s is £670,500
Getting in

How hard is it to get a place at Riverhead Infants' School?

90% of the families who put it first got a place for September 2026.

89
families put it first for September 2026
90
places offered
90%
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: 2019 (14), 2020 (40), 2021 (17), 2023 (22), 2024 (5), 2025 (15), 2026 (9). 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. Kent council sets the admissions rules. Apply through Kent council’s coordinated admissions.

Demand for primary schools in Sevenoaks, September 2026

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

1.75 per place
57% got their first choice
1.13 per place
76% got their first choice
1.10 per place
82% got their first choice
Riverhead Infants'
0.99 per place
90% got their first choice
0.98 per place
78% got their first choice
0.40 per place
100% got their first choice

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

263 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
11.4%England 15.3%
EHC plan
1.5%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
8%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
3.4%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 51%Boys 49%
Its letter

No letter for Riverhead Infants' 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: Good, March 2023.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Riverhead Infants' School

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

Home prices in TN13 2, the school’s postcode sector

Sevenoaks property prices →
£672,000
median sale, 358 sales in 36 months · Sevenoaks £670,500

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£300K£400K£500K£600K£700K£800K2010201520202025TN13 2Sevenoaks
TN13 2Sevenoaks

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£1.2M
Semi-detached
£612K
Terraced
£450K
Flat
£310K
TN13 2Sevenoaks

Homes in TN13 2 sell for about the same as Sevenoaks’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

8 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNDBBA−A+CAARiverhead Infants' School
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Sevenoaks, TN13 2AS

Riverhead Infants' School: common questions

How hard is it to get into Riverhead Infants' School?

For September 2026, 89 families put Riverhead Infants' School first and 80 of them were offered a place; 90 places were offered in all.

What is Riverhead Infants' School’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection outcome is Good (March 2023).

How much do houses cost near Riverhead Infants' School?

Homes in its postcode sector, TN13 2, sold for a median £672,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (358 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; Sevenoaks’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.