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Not available for this school

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Results Inclusion

Ofsted

No overall gradeInspected 24/06/2025

Since September 2024 Ofsted has not given an overall effectiveness grade at new inspections. This inspection graded the key judgements below instead (Outstanding, Good, Requires improvement or Inadequate); safeguarding is effective or not effective. No overall grade is worked out here.

Judgement	Grade
Safeguarding	Effective
Quality of education	Good
Behaviour and attitudes	Good
Personal development	Good
Leadership and management	Good
Early years provision	Good

Inspection history

Date	Outcome
24/06/2025	No overall grade: Good in all four key judgements; early years provision Good; safeguarding effective
18/04/2023	Requires improvement
05/04/2017	Inadequate

Ofsted management information, as at 30 September 2026, via WhatSchool: Ofsted may have published a newer report since. Since September 2024 Ofsted no longer gives a single overall grade at new inspections, so a one-word grade, where shown, belongs to the inspection date beside it. Ungraded inspections give no grade and are dated by month only. Inspections from September 2024 to November 2025 grade key judgements; report cards (from November 2025) grade evaluation areas.

Ofsted reports for this school

Academy trust

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Wessex Multi Academy Trust runs 12 schools, including this one.

The Purbeck SchoolSecondary · Wareham · Ofsted: Ungraded inspection Apr 2025; last graded Good (Dec 2014, previous school)
Milborne St Andrew First SchoolPrimary · Blandford Forum · Ofsted: Ungraded inspection May 2023; last graded Good (Sep 2013, previous school)
Frome Valley CofE First SchoolPrimary · Dorchester · Ofsted: No overall grade (Jan 2025): Good in 2 key judgements, Requires improvement in 2; early years provision Requires improvement; safeguarding effective
St Mary's Church of England Middle School, PuddletownMiddle deemed secondary · Dorchester · Ofsted: Good (graded Sep 2019; ungraded inspection Jan 2025)
Puddletown Church of England First SchoolPrimary · Dorchester · Ofsted: No overall grade (Jun 2025): Good in all four key judgements; early years provision Good; safeguarding effective
Manor Park Church of England First SchoolPrimary · Dorchester · Ofsted: Report card (Jan 2026): Expected standard in all seven areas; safeguarding standards met

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