Primary
Downsview Community Primary School
Beech Avenue, Swanley, BR8 8AU
Key facts
- Phase
- Primary
- Type
- Community school
- Ages
- 4 to 11
- Intake
- Mixed
- Pupils
- 140 of 210 places
- Pupils per teacher
- 17.6
- Local authority
- Kent
Staffing23/24
- Teachers (FTE)
- 9.6
- All staff (FTE)
- 19.1
- Pupils per adult
- 8.8
- Pupils
- 169
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 December 2025
- AchievementNeeds attention
- Attendance and behaviourNeeds attention
- Curriculum and teachingNeeds attention
- Early yearsExpected standard
- InclusionExpected standard
- Leadership and governanceExpected standard
- Personal development and wellbeingExpected standard
SafeguardingMet
Read the full Ofsted report (opens in a new tab)Earlier inspections2
April 2023
Previous framework
Requires improvement
Safeguarding: met
- Behaviour and attitudesGood
- Early yearsRequires improvement
- Leadership and governanceRequires improvement
- Personal developmentGood
- Quality of educationRequires improvement
January 2020
Ungraded inspection
Good
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SATs results
52%
11 points below the Swanley average (63% across 5 schools)
104.0
1.6 below the Swanley average (105.6 across 5 schools)
5th of 5 by our score, among the primary schools in Swanley we can score - 6 in total, the rest without enough published data. Local and same-phase on purpose: a national table mostly measures who attends.
All published measures2024/2025
| Measure | Result |
|---|---|
| Average maths score | 102 |
| Average reading score | 104 |
| Reading, writing and maths | 52% |
| Working at a higher standard | 11% |
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 | 37% |
| 23/24 | 65% |
| 24/25 | 52% |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 22/23 | 100.0 |
| 23/24 | 104.0 |
| 24/25 | 104.0 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 22/23 | 100.0 |
| 23/24 | 105.0 |
| 24/25 | 102.0 |
Beech Avenue, Swanley, BR8 8AU
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
- Caroline Cain
- Address
- Beech Avenue, Swanley, BR8 8AU
- Telephone
- 01322662594