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Sturminster Marshall First School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 4–9 · Community school
78 High Street, Sturminster Marshall, Wimborne BH21 4AY · sturminstermarshall.dorset.sch.uk · 01258 857348
On the mapSearch near BH21 4AY
Overview
- Ofsted
- No overall grade
- 2019 framework · inspected Jun 2025
- Demand for places
- 0.5
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 49
- 33% of 148 places
- Local authority
- Dorset
- Nursery class
- No
- Free school meals
- 12.2%
- First language not English
- 2%
- School census 2025/26
The official school record (Department for Education)
Admissions
For Reception in September 2026, 8 families put the school first and 15 places were offered; 100% of those families were offered a place there. Admission depends on the school’s own rules.
First choices against places
| Reception | Places | First choices | Per place | % offered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2026Sept 2026 | 15 | 8 | 0.5 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 5 | 4 | 0.8 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 12 | 12 | 1 | 92% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 12 | 12 | 1 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 16 | 15 | 0.9 | 100% |
Ofsted
Ofsted inspected Sturminster Marshall First School on 17 June 2025 under its 2019 framework. Inspections from September 2024 give no overall grade.
- Overall
- No overall grade
- Inspected
- 17 Jun 2025
- Graded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Graded areas
| Quality of education | Requires improvement |
|---|---|
| Behaviour and attitudes | Good |
| Personal development | Good |
| Leadership and management | Requires improvement |
| Early years | Good |
Previously: Requires improvement, graded inspection, Nov 2022
Earlier inspections
September 2019 to November 2025
Nov 2022Requires improvement
Quality of education Requires improvement Behaviour and attitudes Good Personal development Good Leadership and management Requires improvement Early years Good Safeguarding Effective
Before September 2019
Jun 2007Outstanding
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good Early years Good
What parents said
92% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (38 replies, to 1 September 2025).
- Recommend
- 92%
- Replies
- 38
- 56% · 1 Sept 2025
based on the 79% who raised concerns
based on the 29% who had a child bullied