What schools serve Ashford?

There are 62 schools in Ashford, Surrey, including St James Senior Boys' School, Aldington Primary School, Victoria Road Primary School, Willesborough Infant School, Willesborough Junior School and more. You can view each school's catchment area guidance and admissions policy on catchment.school.

How many primary and secondary schools are in Ashford?

Ashford has 46 primary schools and 5 secondary schools. There are also 11 other schools (such as all-through or special schools) in the area. All data is sourced from the Department for Education's GIAS register.

How do I find out if my address is in a school's catchment area in Ashford?

To check whether your address falls within a school's catchment area in Ashford, use the postcode search tool at catchment.school. Catchment area boundaries for Ashford schools are set by Surrey and reviewed each year. You can also consult the school's admissions policy or contact the Surrey admissions team directly for the most up-to-date boundary maps.

Who sets catchment area boundaries for schools in Ashford?

Catchment area boundaries for schools in Ashford are set by Surrey as the admissions authority. Community and voluntary-controlled schools follow the council's published admissions policy, while academies and voluntary-aided schools may set their own. Boundaries are reviewed annually and published each September for the following academic year.

Schools in Ashford

Reviewed by the catchment.school editorial team · Last updated 15 March 2026

Ashford in Surrey has 62 schools in the catchment.school database, with 46 primaries and 5 secondaries. Admissions are administered by Surrey County Council, which publishes annual catchment maps and oversubscription criteria through the Surrey Schools Admissions team. Nineteen schools in the Ashford area are faith schools, the majority Church of England, each with supplementary information forms and separate criteria that sit alongside Surrey's distance-based policy.

Surrey uses straight-line distance as the main oversubscription criterion at community schools once sibling and looked-after children are prioritised. For the Ashford area, secondary catchments include Halliford School and Spelthorne schools in the Staines-upon-Thames cluster. Families moving into the area should request Surrey's Composite Prospectus in September and note that popular schools can close their catchment within 0.8 miles in high-demand years.

School demand in Ashford

Across the 61 schools in Ashford with published capacity data, the average fill rate is 91%. 17 of them are currently at or above their published admission number, and at those schools catchment distance is likely to decide places at the next intake.

19 schools in Ashford have a religious character, so faith criteria sit alongside catchment distance in their admissions policies.

24 of the schools in Ashford are academies that set their own admissions criteria independently of Surrey, so check each school's policy directly rather than assuming the council default applies.

27 of the schools in Ashford have a current Ofsted rating, of which 26 are rated Good or Outstanding. Demand and catchment distance tend to be tightest at the highest-rated schools.

Primary schools in Ashford: 14 oversubscribed (46)

Aldington Primary School

Primary · Foundation school

Ashford · TN25 7EE

Ages 4-11 198 pupils Capacity 210

Victoria Road Primary School

Primary · Community school

Ashford · TN23 7HQ

Ages 5-11 210 pupils Capacity 206

Willesborough Infant School

Primary · Foundation school

Ashford · TN24 0JZ

Ages 4-7 353 pupils Capacity 390

Willesborough Junior School

Primary · Foundation school

Ashford · TN24 0JU

Ages 7-11 480 pupils Capacity 510

Bethersden Primary School

Primary · Community school

Ashford · TN26 3AH

Ages 4-11 115 pupils Capacity 140

Brook Community Primary School

Primary · Foundation school

Ashford · TN25 5PB

Ages 4-11 71 pupils Capacity 105

Challock Primary School

Primary · Foundation school

Ashford · TN25 4BU

Ages 4-11 209 pupils Capacity 210

Great Chart Primary School

Primary · Community school

ASHFORD · TN23 5LB

Ages 4-11 422 pupils Capacity 420

Mersham Primary School

Primary · Foundation school

Ashford · TN25 6NU

Ages 4-11 171 pupils Capacity 210

Smeeth Community Primary School

Primary · Foundation school

Ashford · TN25 6RX

Ages 4-11 107 pupils Capacity 140

Sellindge Primary School

Primary · Community school

Ashford · TN25 6JY

Ages 4-11 192 pupils Capacity 210

Downs View Infant School

Primary · Community school

Ashford · TN25 4PJ

Ages 4-7 215 pupils Capacity 210