Graded inspection · Mar 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 | Outstanding | |||
| Leadership and management | Outstanding | |||
| Early years provision | Good |
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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 entry81 applications · 30 places offered · 36 named it first
FaithMay give priority to families of the faith.
- 2026 2.7; Dorset median median 2.1
- 2025 3.2; Dorset median median 2.0
- 2024 4.2; Dorset median median 2.1
- 2023 4.3; Dorset median median 2.0
- 2022 2.9; Dorset median median 2.0
- 2021 2.6; Dorset median median 2.0
- 2020 3.6; Dorset median median 1.9; as the previous school
- 2019 2.7; Dorset median median 2.1; as the previous school
- 2018 2.9; Dorset median median 2.0; as the previous school
- 2017 3.1; Dorset median median 2.0; as the previous school
- 2016 3.8; Dorset median median 2.0; as the previous school
- 2015 3.5; Dorset median median 1.9; as the previous school
- 2014 3.5; Dorset median median 1.8; as the previous school
- This school
- Dorset median
Dashed bars: as Trinity CofE VA First School (URN 132767), 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 | 30 | 81 | 2.7 | 36 | 1.20 |
| Sep 2025 | 29 | 92 | 3.2 | 38 | 1.31 |
| Sep 2024 | 10 | 42 | 4.2 | 9 | 0.90 |
| Sep 2023 | 15 | 65 | 4.3 | 15 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2022 | 30 | 86 | 2.9 | 32 | 1.07 |
| Sep 2021 | 28 | 74 | 2.6 | 26 | 0.93 |
| Sep 2020 * | 18 | 65 | 3.6 | 17 | 0.94 |
| Sep 2019 * | 30 | 82 | 2.7 | 31 | 1.03 |
| Sep 2018 * | 30 | 86 | 2.9 | 34 | 1.13 |
| Sep 2017 * | 30 | 92 | 3.1 | 38 | 1.27 |
| Sep 2016 * | 30 | 115 | 3.8 | 41 | 1.37 |
| Sep 2015 * | 30 | 106 | 3.5 | 35 | 1.17 |
| Sep 2014 * | 30 | 105 | 3.5 | 39 | 1.30 |
Schools nearby
The 8 nearest primary schools in a straight line, in any local authority
- Trinity Church of England First SchoolThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20252.7applications per place
- 0.6 km · DorsetRemains Good20232.1applications per place
- 1.6 km · DorsetGood20232.6applications per place
- 3.5 km · DorsetGood20231.9applications per place
- Remains Good20231.3applications per place
- 4.7 km · DorsetGood20232.1applications per place
- 6.0 km · DorsetRemains Good20232.3applications per place
- 6.4 km · DorsetGraded · no overall grade20252.6applications per place
- 6.6 km · DorsetOutstanding20232.5applications per place 90%met the SATs standard
School details
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- URN · DfE number
- 148323 · 838/2000
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Capacity
- 150 pupils · 128 on roll
- Free school meals
- 12.5% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 1 January 2021
- Replaced
- Trinity CofE VA First School (URN 132767)
- Address
- Coopers Lane, Verwood, BH31 7PG
- Local authority
- Dorset
Data last changed 3 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources