Kent School Catchment Areas

Kent runs one of the larger school estates in England — 459 primary and 100 secondary schools, spread across market towns, villages and denser urban centres.

The largest concentrations sit around Maidstone, Canterbury, Ashford, which together account for a meaningful share of the council's pupil places.

Selective schools are part of the mix in Kent — for those, passing the admissions test comes first and catchment distance only applies as a tiebreaker.

The catchment boundary for any given school is defined in the council's annual admissions booklet — we link to that search for every Kent school below.