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These top schools near Dorchester are ranked by their School Guide Star Rating, which is 100% based on official performance data including exam results and Ofsted inspections. Visit each school’s page to see catchment area maps, parent reviews and exam results in full.
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These are the top 50 primary and secondary schools near Dorchester ordered by their Ofsted inspection rating then name. To compare all schools near Dorchester in more detail use our intuitive schools map, where you can see parent reviews, catchment areas, exam results, league tables and much more.
Most of Dorchester's secondary schools have been rated Good by Ofsted, amounting to 2 schools or 50% of the total. Attainment is mostly split between high and very low - about 50% and 0% of secondary schools respectively - though we don't have data for approximately 50% of schools.
Total 8 primary, secondary and sixth form schools in Dorchester, Dorset. Explore best school by parent reviews, Ofsted ratings and exam results.
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Girls head to Bournemouth School for Girls and Parkstone Grammar School, while boys apply to Bournemouth School and Poole Grammar School. The Good Schools Guide has detailed reviews of all four. Bournemouth School offers 180 places a year to boys joining year 7. Girls can join in the sixth form and parents describe pupils as ‘driven' and 'all-round...
Top secondary schools include Glenmoor Academy and Winton Academy, two single-sex academies with a shared campus north of the centre of Bournemouth. Places at both are keenly sought-after by parents. Co-ed Magna Academy Poolein Canford Heath tends to be over-subscribed too – and is also excellent. At Avonbourne Boys’ Academy and Avonbourne Girls’ A...
Nine miles east of Blandford is Queen Elizabeth’s Schoolin Wimborne. Known locally as QE, the school achieves good results and has the benefit of an ultra-modern campus. GCSE grades tend to be well above the local average and sixth formers can choose from 30 A levels and 13 vocational options. Shaftesbury School in North Dorset is 11 miles north of...
Families opting for state education in Sherborne put The Gryphon Schoolat the top of their list. A large 11-18 school, with 1,500 pupils, it’s always over-subscribed. The head describes it as ‘a big school with a small school feel,’ and our reviewer wholeheartedly agreed. Best primary schools in Dorchester and West Dorset Best private schools in Do...
There aren’t any grammar schools in this area but just over the border into Devon is Colyton Grammar School, a co-ed selective academy serving students from East Devon, West Dorset and South Somerset. The school’s results are stellar – our reviewer described it as, ‘The school that most parents locally would cheerily saw off an arm and a leg to get...
The mighty The Thomas Hardye School (it has 2,000 pupils, including 780 in the sixth form) on the edge of Dorchester admits children from the age of 13 and achieves good results. Most pupils come from three middle schools, two in Dorchester and one in nearby Puddletown, plus a few from Weymouth and a handful from Sunninghill Preparatory School. At ...
Information on secondary school provision for children with special educational needs can be found on the websites of Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council and Dorset Council. Special schools with secondary provision include Beaucroft Foundation School in Wimborne, a 4 to 19 school for pupils with learning difficulties, complex needs and auti...
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