How far do you need to live from a school in Kensington and Chelsea to get a place?

It depends on the school. Across the 12 Kensington and Chelsea schools with a published figure, the last child admitted lived a median of 0.72 miles away; the tightest was Thomas Jones Primary School at 0.15 miles. The distance moves every year with demand.

Do Kensington and Chelsea schools have catchment areas?

Most English schools do not. When a school is oversubscribed, places are offered outward from the school until they run out, so what exists is how far the last admitted child lived, which the council publishes after each round. That is the figure on this page.

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How far Kensington and Chelsea schools admitted from

For every oversubscribed school, Kensington and Chelsea publishes how far away the last child offered a place lived. This is that figure for 12 schools, tightest first. A short distance means a school that fills up close to its gates; a long one means places went further afield.

12schools with a published figure

0.72 mithe middle school's distance

8filled within a mile

The tightest is Thomas Jones Primary School at 0.15 miles in 2025/26; the most far-reaching, Marlborough Primary School, admitted from 2.97 miles.

Primary schools

School	Ofsted	Admitted from	Round	How full
Thomas Jones Primary School London	Outstanding	0.15 mi	2025/26	113%
Colville Primary School London	No current grade	0.29 mi	2025/26	99%
Bousfield Primary School London	Good	0.34 mi	2025/26	96%
Kensington Primary Academy London	No current grade	0.34 mi	2025/26	92%
Holy Trinity CofE Primary School London	No current grade	0.39 mi	2025/26	97%
Christ Church CofE Primary School London	Outstanding	0.44 mi	2025/26	97%
Oratory Roman Catholic Primary School London	Outstanding	0.72 mi	2025/26	100%
St Mary Abbots CofE Primary School London	No current grade	0.94 mi	2025/26	76%
Park Walk Primary School London	No current grade	1.13 mi	2025/26	81%
St Barnabas and St Philip's CofE Primary School London	Good	1.56 mi	2025/26	105%
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School London	Outstanding	1.67 mi	2025/26	95%
Marlborough Primary School London	No current grade	2.97 mi	2025/26	92%

Reading the numbers

These are not catchment areas: most English schools have none. Each figure is the distance from the school to the home of the furthest child who was offered a place under the distance criterion in that round, as Kensington and Chelsea measures it, which is usually a straight line from a fixed point at the home to one at the school. Looked-after children, siblings and, at faith schools, faith criteria come before distance, so a school can fill before distance is reached at all. The figure moves every year with the number of applications. How the whole process works →

Checking an address against these

Each school's page has a checker that measures a postcode against that school's distance. The full property report measures every nearby school at once, alongside sold prices, flood risk and the rest of the house.

Admission distances published by Kensington and Chelsea. School details and grades from the Department for Education's register and Ofsted. If a figure looks wrong, tell us and it goes on the accuracy log.