Ryarsh Primary School
Primary · West Malling · ME19 5LS
Graded inspection under the pre-November 2025 system
This is an overall-effectiveness grade from the previous inspection framework. The school has not yet had a report-card inspection.
Inspected 12 March 2024
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209 pupils · 100% of 210 capacity
- School type
- Community school
- Age range
- 4–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Free school meals
- 8.6% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 2.4% of pupils
- SEN support
- 6.2% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 2.9% of pupils
- Website
- www.ryarsh.kent.sch.uk/
- URN
- 118310
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
1.43 first-choice applications per place30 places offered · 43 first-choice applications · oversubscribed
First-choice applications per place, by entry year
Applications and offers on national offer day, DfE. A ratio above 1.00 means more families named this school first choice than there were places.
Key stage 2 results (2024/2025)
30 pupils at the end of key stage 2 in 2024/2025
Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025. “Suppressed” means the DfE withholds figures for very small cohorts.
Attendance (2025/26 autumn term)
Autumn-term absence, DfE pupil absence data. Lower is better.
Staffing
Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.
Teacher retention (2024/25)
100% of teachers stayed at the school the following year
School Workforce Census, DfE. The ratio counts full-time-equivalent qualified teachers; retention follows teachers in post one November to the next. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Spending per pupil
Total expenditure ÷ pupils, council-maintained school finance return (DfE Schools Financial Benchmarking, latest year). Higher spending is not a measure of quality. It often reflects greater pupil need or a smaller school. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Inspection history since 2015
- 12 March 2024: Good
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.
Nearby schools
- The Rosewood School
- Valley Invicta Primary School At Leybourne Chase
- West Malling Church of England Primary School and McGinty Speech and Language Srp
- Leybourne, St Peter and St Paul Church of England Primary Academy
- Offham Primary School
- More Park Catholic Primary School
- Trottiscliffe Church of England Primary School
- St Katherine's School & Nursery