Primary
Southborough CofE Primary School
Broomhill Park Road, Southborough, Tunbridge Wells, TN4 0JY
Key facts
- Phase
- Primary
- Type
- Voluntary controlled school
- Ages
- 5 to 11
- Intake
- Mixed
- Pupils
- 631 of 630 places
- Pupils per teacher
- 19.3
- Local authority
- Kent
- Religious character
- Yes
- Diocese
- Diocese of Rochester
Staffing23/24
- Teachers (FTE)
- 31.8
- All staff (FTE)
- 63.8
- Pupils per adult
- 9.6
- Pupils
- 614
Staff are counted as full-time equivalents in the November school workforce census, so the pupil figure here is that census’s own and will differ a little from the roll above, which is counted in January.
Ofsted
Last inspected March 2024
Good
An ungraded inspection, which checks whether a school remains at its previous grade rather than re-grading it. Inspected under the previous framework, which used its own four-point scale. Ofsted now publishes a report card grading several areas separately, so these grades are not directly comparable with a recent inspection’s.
Read the full Ofsted report (opens in a new tab)SATs results
73%
6 points above the Tunbridge Wells average (67% across 22 schools)
108.0
0.2 above the Tunbridge Wells average (107.8 across 22 schools)
6th of 22 by our score, among the primary schools in Tunbridge Wells we can score - see them all. Local and same-phase on purpose: a national table mostly measures who attends.
All published measures2024/2025
| Measure | Result |
|---|---|
| Average maths score | 107 |
| Average reading score | 108 |
| Reading, writing and maths | 73% |
| Working at a higher standard | 19% |
From the Department for Education. Measures are published per year and suppressed where a cohort is too small, so some schools show fewer. There are no results for 2019/20 or 2020/21, when exams and assessments were cancelled.
Results over time3 years
Each measure on its own scale, over every year we hold.
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 22/23 | 80% |
| 23/24 | 72% |
| 24/25 | 73% |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 22/23 | 109.0 |
| 23/24 | 108.0 |
| 24/25 | 108.0 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 22/23 | 108.0 |
| 23/24 | 106.0 |
| 24/25 | 107.0 |
Broomhill Park Road, Southborough, Tunbridge Wells, TN4 0JY
Admissions
How to apply (opens in a new tab)
You apply through your council, not the school - even for academies and free schools. Applications close on 15 January, the year before starting.
Kent admissions (opens in a new tab)
The council publishes the oversubscription criteria and last year’s offer distances, which is the closest thing to knowing your chances.
If you are refused a place (opens in a new tab)
You can appeal, and you can join a waiting list at the same time. Accept whatever offer you get first - declining it can leave you with no place at all.
This school’s own admissions (opens in a new tab)
Schools that set their own criteria - faith schools, grammars, academies - publish them on their own site.
Contact
- Headteacher
- Emma Savage
- Address
- Broomhill Park Road, Southborough, Tunbridge Wells, TN4 0JY
- Telephone
- 01892529682
Other primary schools nearby
- St Augustine's Catholic Primary School4.3/10
- St John's Church of England Primary School6.7/10
- St Matthew's High Brooms Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School4.3/10
- Bidborough Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School6.9/10
- Bishops Down Primary and Nursery School5.3/10
- St Barnabas CofE VA Primary School6.4/10