Graded inspection · Jan 2025 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther primary schools in Dorset
What did Ofsted find?
Ofsted data to 30 September 2026| Area | Outstanding | Good | Requires improvement | Inadequate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality of education | Requires improvement | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Good | |||
| Personal development | Good | |||
| Leadership and management | Requires improvement | |||
| Early years provision | Requires improvement |
Inspection history
- 14 January 2025Graded inspection, no overall grade
- 4 July 2023Ungraded inspection: School remains Good (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 entry20 applications · 16 places offered · 16 named it first
FaithMay give priority to families of the faith.
- 2026 1.3; Dorset median median 2.1
- 2025 1.3; Dorset median median 2.0
- 2024 1.6; Dorset median median 2.1
- 2023 1.7; Dorset median median 2.0
- 2022 1.5; Dorset median median 2.0
- 2021 1.3; Dorset median median 2.0
- 2020 1.5; Dorset median median 1.9
- 2019 1.4; Dorset median median 2.1
- 2018 1.4; Dorset median median 2.0
- 2017 1.6; Dorset median median 2.0
- 2016 1.5; Dorset median median 2.0
- 2015 1.3; Dorset median median 1.9; as the previous school
- 2014 1.1; Dorset median median 1.8; as the previous school
- This school
- Dorset median
Dashed bars: as Frome Valley CofE VA First School (URN 113763), the previous school.
Reception applications for September 2027 close 15 January 2027, through your council
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 | 16 | 20 | 1.3 | 16 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2025 | 29 | 37 | 1.3 | 29 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2024 | 26 | 42 | 1.6 | 25 | 0.96 |
| Sep 2023 | 20 | 34 | 1.7 | 20 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2022 | 19 | 29 | 1.5 | 19 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2021 | 23 | 30 | 1.3 | 23 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2020 | 30 | 44 | 1.5 | 31 | 1.03 |
| Sep 2019 | 23 | 31 | 1.4 | 23 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2018 | 28 | 38 | 1.4 | 28 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2017 | 30 | 48 | 1.6 | 35 | 1.17 |
| Sep 2016 | 26 | 40 | 1.5 | 25 | 0.96 |
| Sep 2015 * | 28 | 35 | 1.3 | 28 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2014 * | 30 | 34 | 1.1 | 29 | 0.97 |
Schools nearby
The 8 nearest primary schools in a straight line, in any local authority
- Frome Valley CofE First SchoolThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20251.3applications per place
- 3.7 km · DorsetGood20231.4applications per place
- 5.2 km · DorsetGraded · no overall grade20251.6applications per place
- 6.2 km · DorsetGood20231.2applications per place 71%met the SATs standard
- 6.8 km · DorsetSpecial measures 20262.0applications per place
- 6.9 km · DorsetRemains Good20233.0applications per place
- 7.9 km · DorsetRequires improvement20242.4applications per place 46%met the SATs standard
- 8.4 km · DorsetGood20232.5applications per place 46%met the SATs standard
- 8.6 km · DorsetGraded · no overall grade20254.7applications per place
- 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
- Primary
- URN · DfE number
- 141777 · 838/3024
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Capacity
- 177 pupils · 141 on roll
- Free school meals
- 21.8% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Nursery
- Has nursery classes
- Opened
- 1 April 2015
- Replaced
- Frome Valley CofE VA First School (URN 113763)
- Address
- School Drive, Crossways, Dorchester, DT2 8WR
- Local authority
- Dorset
Data last changed 3 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources