Graded inspection · Apr 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
- 23 April 2025Graded inspection, no overall grade
- 19 October 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 entry75 applications · 29 places offered · 32 named it first
FaithMay give priority to families of the faith.
- 2026 2.6; Dorset median median 2.1
- 2025 2.5; Dorset median median 2.0
- 2024 2.4; Dorset median median 2.1
- 2023 1.8; Dorset median median 2.0
- 2022 2.3; Dorset median median 2.0
- 2021 2.1; Dorset median median 2.0
- 2020 2.5; Dorset median median 1.9
- 2019 2.2; Dorset median median 2.1
- 2018 1.8; Dorset median median 2.0
- 2017 2.0; Dorset median median 2.0
- 2016 1.9; Dorset median median 2.0
- 2015 1.9; Dorset median median 1.9; as the previous school
- 2014 2.7; Dorset median median 1.8; as the previous school
- This school
- Dorset median
Dashed bars: as West Moors, St Mary's Church of England Voluntary Controlled First School (URN 113780), 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 | 75 | 2.6 | 32 | 1.10 |
| Sep 2025 | 21 | 52 | 2.5 | 16 | 0.76 |
| Sep 2024 | 22 | 53 | 2.4 | 21 | 0.95 |
| Sep 2023 | 27 | 48 | 1.8 | 19 | 0.70 |
| Sep 2022 | 30 | 69 | 2.3 | 37 | 1.23 |
| Sep 2021 | 30 | 63 | 2.1 | 32 | 1.07 |
| Sep 2020 | 19 | 48 | 2.5 | 15 | 0.79 |
| Sep 2019 | 30 | 67 | 2.2 | 31 | 1.03 |
| Sep 2018 | 24 | 42 | 1.8 | 21 | 0.88 |
| Sep 2017 | 28 | 57 | 2.0 | 25 | 0.89 |
| Sep 2016 | 30 | 56 | 1.9 | 22 | 0.73 |
| Sep 2015 * | 30 | 58 | 1.9 | 26 | 0.87 |
| Sep 2014 * | 14 | 38 | 2.7 | 14 | 1.00 |
Schools nearby
The 8 nearest primary schools in a straight line, in any local authority
- St Mary's CofE First School & NurseryThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20252.6applications per place
- 1.0 km · Dorset20262.0applications per place
- 2.9 km · DorsetGood20231.9applications per place
- 3.1 km · DorsetRemains Good20231.7applications per place
- 4.0 km · DorsetGood20232.3applications per place
- 4.8 km · DorsetOutstanding20232.5applications per place 90%met the SATs standard
- 4.8 km · DorsetGood20232.6applications per place
- 4.9 km · DorsetGood20234.0applications per place
- 5.0 km · DorsetNot yet inspected3.4applications 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
- 142514 · 838/3055
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Capacity
- 184 pupils · 148 on roll
- Free school meals
- 16.6% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Nursery
- Has nursery classes
- Opened
- 1 December 2015
- Replaced
- West Moors, St Mary's Church of England Voluntary Controlled First School (URN 113780)
- Address
- Station Road, West Moors, Ferndown, BH22 0JF
- Local authority
- Dorset
Data last changed 3 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources