Graded inspection · May 2024 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther primary schools in Somerset
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
- 1 May 2024Graded inspection: Good · as Milborne Port Primary School, URN 123655
- 18 January 2023Ungraded inspection: School remains Good (Concerns) · as Milborne Port Primary School, URN 123655
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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 entry31 applications · 20 places offered · 19 named it first
- 2026 1.6; Somerset median median 1.8
- 2025 1.3; Somerset median median 1.7; as the previous school
- 2024 1.7; Somerset median median 1.7; as the previous school
- 2023 1.4; Somerset median median 1.8; as the previous school
- 2022 1.5; Somerset median median 1.8; as the previous school
- 2021 1.2; Somerset median median 1.7; as the previous school
- 2020 1.7; Somerset median median 1.8; as the previous school
- 2019 1.3; Somerset median median 1.8; as the previous school
- 2018 1.2; Somerset median median 1.8; as the previous school
- 2017 1.2; Somerset median median 1.9; as the previous school
- 2016 1.3; Somerset median median 1.9; as the previous school
- 2015 1.1; Somerset median median 1.9; as the previous school
- 2014 1.2; Somerset median median 1.8; as the previous school
- This school
- Somerset median
Dashed bars: as Milborne Port Primary School (URN 123655), 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 | 20 | 31 | 1.6 | 19 | 0.95 |
| Sep 2025 * | 21 | 28 | 1.3 | 21 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2024 * | 10 | 17 | 1.7 | 10 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2023 * | 24 | 33 | 1.4 | 26 | 1.08 |
| Sep 2022 * | 23 | 34 | 1.5 | 23 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2021 * | 24 | 29 | 1.2 | 24 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2020 * | 18 | 30 | 1.7 | 18 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2019 * | 23 | 30 | 1.3 | 23 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2018 * | 21 | 26 | 1.2 | 21 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2017 * | 24 | 29 | 1.2 | 23 | 0.96 |
| Sep 2016 * | 21 | 28 | 1.3 | 21 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2015 * | 26 | 29 | 1.1 | 24 | 0.92 |
| Sep 2014 * | 25 | 30 | 1.2 | 26 | 1.04 |
Schools nearby
The 8 nearest primary schools in a straight line, in any local authority
- Milborne Port Primary SchoolThis schoolThis schoolGood20241.6applications per place
- 4.0 km · Dorset20261.7applications per place 47%met the SATs standard
- 4.4 km · SomersetGood20231.4applications per place
- 4.6 km · SomersetGraded · no overall grade20251.5applications per place 57%met the SATs standard
- 4.9 km · SomersetNot yet inspected1.3applications per place 64%met the SATs standard
- 5.8 km · DorsetRemains Good20231.5applications per place 65%met the SATs standard
- 5.9 km · Dorset20261.6applications per place 48%met the SATs standard
- 5.9 km · SomersetStandards maintained20241.7applications per place 50%met the SATs standard
- Remains Good20231.7applications 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
- 151281 · 933/2047
- Capacity
- 180 pupils · 169 on roll
- Free school meals
- 21.4% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Nursery
- Has nursery classes
- Opened
- 1 March 2025
- Replaced
- Milborne Port Primary School (URN 123655)
- Address
- North Street, Sherborne, DT9 5EP
- Local authority
- Somerset
Data last changed 3 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources