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Ferndown First School
Primary · Mixed · Ages 4–9 · Academy
Mountbatten Drive, Ferndown BH22 9FB · fernfirst.dorset.sch.uk · 01202 873747
On the mapSearch near BH22 9FB
Overview
- Ofsted
- Remains Good
- Ungraded inspection · Nov 2023
- Demand for places
- 0.9
- first choices for each place · Reception, September 2026
- Pupils
- 348
- 6 over 342 places · 102%
- Local authority
- Dorset
- Nursery class
- No
- Free school meals
- 18.5%
- First language not English
- 3.7%
- School census 2025/26
The official school record (Department for Education)
Admissions
For Reception in September 2026, 76 families put the school first and 89 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 | 89 | 76 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2025Sept 2025 | 69 | 60 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2024Sept 2024 | 76 | 58 | 0.8 | 100% |
| September 2023Sept 2023 | 64 | 58 | 0.9 | 100% |
| September 2022Sept 2022 | 58 | 50 | 0.9 | 100% |
Ofsted
At an ungraded inspection on 10 November 2023, Ofsted’s outcome for Ferndown First School was: School remains Good.
- Outcome
- Remains Good
- Inspected
- 9 Nov 2023
- Ungraded inspection
Safeguarding effectiveInspection reports
Previously: Good, graded inspection, Sept 2010
Earlier inspections
Including inspections of the predecessor school (URN 113667), which Ofsted links to this one.
Before September 2019
Sept 2010Good
Outcomes for pupils Good Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good Leadership and management Good Early years Good Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 113667)
Feb 2008Requires improvement
Outcomes for pupils Requires improvement Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Requires improvement Leadership and management Requires improvement Early years Good Inspection of the predecessor school (URN 113667)
What parents said
97% of the parents who answered Ofsted’s Parent View survey would recommend the school (72 replies, to 2 September 2024).
- Recommend
- 97%
- Replies
- 72
- 2 Sept 2024
based on the 65% who raised concerns
based on the 26% who had a child bullied