Primary schools in Dover
22 primary schools in Dover, sorted by latest Ofsted grade. Grades come from two inspection systems; each school page states which, and the guide explains the difference. A grade shown with a year, like "Good (2019)", is the last one Ofsted published for that school and sorts below current grades. We don't invent rankings.
Dover in figures
For Reception places in September 2026, families named the 20 schools in Dover first 571 times for 559 places: 1.02 first choices per place, against 1.00 across the Kent authority's 429 schools. 7 of the 20 had more first choices than places. For 2026 entry, 8 schools here gave their last places on distance, from 0.31 miles (White Cliffs Primary and Nursery School) to 3.49 miles (Selsted Church of England Primary School).
Totals for the schools listed on this page. Applications and offers on national offer day, DfE; last-offer distances as the council published them.
- Green Park Community Primary School
- Aycliffe Community Primary School
- Barton Junior School
- Charlton Church of England Primary School
- Dover, St Mary's Church of England Primary School
- Guston Church of England Primary School
- Priory Fields School
- River Primary School
- Selsted Church of England Primary School
- St Margaret's-at-Cliffe Primary School
- St Martin's School
- St Richard's Catholic Primary School
- Temple Ewell Church of England Primary School
- Vale View Community School
- White Cliffs Primary and Nursery School
- Whitfield Aspen School
- Shatterlocks Infant and Nursery School
- Langdon Primary School
- Eythorne Elvington Community Primary School
- Shepherdswell Church of England Primary School
- Nonington Church of England Primary School
- Lydden Primary School
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