Graded inspection · May 2025 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther secondary schools in Bournemouth, Christchurch and PooleSelective
What did Ofsted find?
Ofsted data to 30 September 2026| Area | Outstanding | Good | Requires improvement | Inadequate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality of education | Good | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Outstanding | |||
| Personal development | Good | |||
| Leadership and management | Good | |||
| Sixth form provision | Good |
Inspection history
- 20 May 2025Graded inspection, no overall grade
- 18 April 2024Ungraded inspection: School remains Outstanding (Concerns)
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About these grades
Ofsted's report cards (from November 2025) grade each area on five steps and give no overall grade. Earlier grades come from a different framework; Ofsted says the two cannot be compared, so they are never converted here. Ofsted: "We normally inspect schools every 4 years or at any time if we have concerns." Methodology.
How hard is it to get a place?
DfE · Sept 2026 entry350 applications · 192 places offered · 213 named it first
SelectiveApplications include children who did not pass the entrance test.
- 2026 1.8; Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole median median 2.7
- 2025 2.0; Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole median median 2.3
- 2024 1.9; Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole median median 2.2
- 2023 2.0; Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole median median 2.2
- 2022 1.8; Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole median median 2.2
- 2021 2.1; Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole median median 2.6
- 2020 1.8; Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole median median 2.0
- 2019 1.8; Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole median median 2.1
- 2018 1.8; Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole median median 2.2
- 2017 1.7; Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole median median 2.2
- 2016 1.9; Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole median median 2.3
- 2015 1.8; Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole median median 2.1
- 2014 1.9; Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole median median 2.2
- This school
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole median
Year 7 applications for September 2027 close 31 October 2026, through your council
Selective: register for the entrance test with the school first, usually by the summer before (dates vary). Dates
How this is measured
Applications per place: every application naming the school at any preference, divided by places offered on National Offer Day. It is not your chance of a place. Methodology.
| Entry | Places | Applications | Per place | First preferences | First-pref. ratio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2026 | 192 | 350 | 1.8 | 213 | 1.11 |
| Sep 2025 | 192 | 375 | 2.0 | 239 | 1.24 |
| Sep 2024 | 191 | 358 | 1.9 | 227 | 1.19 |
| Sep 2023 | 192 | 378 | 2.0 | 238 | 1.24 |
| Sep 2022 | 191 | 349 | 1.8 | 227 | 1.19 |
| Sep 2021 | 193 | 410 | 2.1 | 266 | 1.38 |
| Sep 2020 | 194 | 340 | 1.8 | 240 | 1.24 |
| Sep 2019 | 180 | 318 | 1.8 | 242 | 1.34 |
| Sep 2018 | 179 | 313 | 1.8 | 220 | 1.23 |
| Sep 2017 | 181 | 312 | 1.7 | 212 | 1.17 |
| Sep 2016 | 180 | 339 | 1.9 | 241 | 1.34 |
| Sep 2015 | 168 | 304 | 1.8 | 231 | 1.38 |
| Sep 2014 | 165 | 315 | 1.9 | 250 | 1.52 |
How did pupils do at GCSE?
DfE KS4 · 2025/26 provisionalEvery year as a table
| Year | Pupils | Attainment 8 | 5+ Eng & maths | 4+ Eng & maths | Progress 8 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 (prov.) | 186 | 67.6 | 91% | 99% | – |
| 2024/25 | 186 | 68.5 | 90% | 98% | – |
| 2023/24 | 176 | 67.8 | 93% | 100% | +0.43 |
| 2022/23 | 176 | 69.5 | 90% | 98% | +0.26 |
Progress 8 is not published for 2024/25 or 2025/26: those pupils had no key stage 2 tests in 2020 and 2021.
Schools nearby
The 8 nearest secondary schools in a straight line, in any local authority
- Parkstone Grammar SchoolThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20251.8applications per place 67.6Attainment 8 Selective
- 1.1 km · Bournemouth, Christchurch and PooleGraded · no overall grade20252.3applications per place 70.2Attainment 8 Selective
- 1.5 km · Bournemouth, Christchurch and PooleGood20233.5applications per place 45.2Attainment 8
- 2.0 km · Bournemouth, Christchurch and PooleStandards maintained2025
- 2.1 km · Bournemouth, Christchurch and PooleRemains Good20224.1applications per place 46.7Attainment 8
- 2.4 km · Bournemouth, Christchurch and PooleRemains Good20222.7applications per place 48.1Attainment 8
- 3.0 km · Bournemouth, Christchurch and PooleGood202144.0Attainment 8
- 3.6 km · Bournemouth, Christchurch and PooleRemains Good20221.7applications per place 46.7Attainment 8
- 3.8 km · Bournemouth, Christchurch and PooleRequires significant improvement 20261.2applications per place 35.6Attainment 8
- Exceptional
- Strong standard
- Expected standard
- Needs attention
- Urgent improvement
- Does not apply
Eight dots, one per area: inclusion, curriculum, achievement, attendance, personal development, early years, post-16, leadership. Colours follow Ofsted's report card scale; Schoolfile is independent of Ofsted.
School details
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- URN · DfE number
- 136368 · 839/5403
- Trust
- Parkstone Grammar School Trust
- Admissions policy
- Selective
- Capacity
- 1,300 pupils · 1,241 on roll
- Free school meals
- 7.2% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 January 2011
- Replaced
- Parkstone Grammar School (URN 113903)
- Address
- Sopers Lane, Poole, BH17 7EP
- Local authority
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources