Graded inspection · Jun 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 | Good | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Good | |||
| Personal development | Good | |||
| Leadership and management | Good | |||
| Early years provision | Good |
Inspection history
- 3 June 2025Graded inspection, no overall grade
- 29 November 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 entry47 applications · 29 places offered · 29 named it first
FaithMay give priority to families of the faith.
- 2026 1.6; Dorset median median 2.1
- 2025 2.1; Dorset median median 2.0
- 2024 1.7; Dorset median median 2.1
- 2023 1.8; Dorset median median 2.0
- 2022 2.2; Dorset median median 2.0
- 2021 2.3; Dorset median median 2.0
- 2020 1.8; Dorset median median 1.9
- 2019 1.8; Dorset median median 2.1
- 2018 2.0; Dorset median median 2.0
- 2017 1.4; Dorset median median 2.0
- 2016 2.1; Dorset median median 2.0
- 2015 1.8; Dorset median median 1.9; as the previous school
- 2014 1.8; Dorset median median 1.8; as the previous school
- This school
- Dorset median
Dashed bars: as Puddletown Church of England First School (URN 113765), 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 | 29 | 47 | 1.6 | 29 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2025 | 21 | 43 | 2.1 | 21 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2024 | 30 | 50 | 1.7 | 33 | 1.10 |
| Sep 2023 | 27 | 48 | 1.8 | 27 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2022 | 19 | 42 | 2.2 | 19 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2021 | 28 | 64 | 2.3 | 35 | 1.25 |
| Sep 2020 | 24 | 44 | 1.8 | 24 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2019 | 28 | 51 | 1.8 | 28 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2018 | 26 | 53 | 2.0 | 26 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2017 | 28 | 40 | 1.4 | 23 | 0.82 |
| Sep 2016 | 30 | 63 | 2.1 | 35 | 1.17 |
| Sep 2015 * | 27 | 49 | 1.8 | 27 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2014 * | 25 | 44 | 1.8 | 25 | 1.00 |
Schools nearby
The 8 nearest primary schools in a straight line, in any local authority
- Puddletown Church of England First SchoolThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20251.6applications per place
- 5.2 km · DorsetGraded · no overall grade20251.3applications per place
- 5.5 km · DorsetRemains Good20233.2applications per place
- 5.9 km · DorsetRemains Good20232.1applications per place
- 7.4 km · DorsetGood20231.4applications per place
- 7.5 km · DorsetGood20232.6applications per place
- 7.5 km · DorsetRemains Good20233.0applications per place
- 7.7 km · DorsetSpecial measures 20262.0applications per place
- 8.3 km · DorsetNot yet inspected1.9applications 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
- 141806 · 838/3026
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Capacity
- 150 pupils · 134 on roll
- Free school meals
- 9.0% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 April 2015
- Replaced
- Puddletown Church of England First School (URN 113765)
- Address
- Dorchester Road, Puddletown, Dorchester, DT2 8FZ
- Local authority
- Dorset
Data last changed 3 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources