West Hill Primary Academy
Primary · Dartford · DA1 3DZ
Report-card inspection (current system, from November 2025)
The headline grade shown is the Achievement area of the school's report card.
Inspected 20 January 2026 · report published 22 March 2026
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542 pupils · 100% of 507 capacity
- School type
- Academy converter
- Age range
- 5–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Free school meals
- 17.5% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 49.8% of pupils
- SEN support
- 9.2% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 2.7% of pupils
- Website
- www.west-hill.kent.sch.uk/
- URN
- 144668
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
0.90 first-choice applications per place50 places offered · 45 first-choice applications · roughly balanced
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)
75 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)
84% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 9% moved to another state school · 7% left the state-funded sector
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, academy 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
- 20 January 2026: Expected standard
- 30 September 2021: School remains Good
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.