Sturminster Marshall First School
Primary school · Community school · ages 4 to 9 · Mixed
78 High Street, Sturminster Marshall, Wimborne, BH21 4AY
- Pupils49
- Ages4 to 9
- Latest Ofsted17 Jun 2025
- FundingState-funded
Ofsted inspections
Shown exactly as Ofsted published them, each with its own date.
Graded inspection (no overall grade) · 17 Jun 2025
No overall grade: from September 2024 to November 2025 Ofsted gave sub-grades only (recorded as “Not judged”).
- Quality of educationRequires improvement
- Behaviour and attitudesGood
- Personal developmentGood
- Leadership and managementRequires improvement
- Early years provisionGood
- Safeguarding is effectiveYes
Grades run from Outstanding to Inadequate (four steps, left to right).
Requires Improvement S5 Reinspection Visit 1 · report published 16 Jul 2025
Read the full reports on Ofsted’s website (opens in a new tab) — they explain the reasons behind each grade.
Source: Ofsted, state-funded school inspections and outcomes: management information (latest inspections as at 30 September 2026). Newer inspections may be on Ofsted’s website. How Ofsted inspections work.
Results
No results for this school are in the performance tables we use. Results are published for schools with pupils at the end of Year 6, Year 11 or 16 to 18 study, and figures are hidden when very few pupils are involved.
Source: Department for Education, school performance tables. England and local authority figures are the DfE’s own, for the same year.
Pupils and attendance
- Pupils
- 49 (capacity 148)
25 girls, 24 boys - Eligible for free school meals
- 12.2% (currently eligible, census of January 2026)
Pupils with SEN support
Special educational needs, without an education, health and care (EHC) plan.
2024/25
Pupils with an EHC plan
An education, health and care plan sets out the support a child must get.
2024/25
Eligible for free school meals at any time in the last 6 years
2024/25
First language not English
This is not a measure of how well pupils speak English.
2024/25
Attendance
Overall absence
The share of possible mornings and afternoons missed, for any reason (authorised or not).
2024/25
Persistent absence
Pupils who missed 10% or more of their possible sessions.
2024/25
Sources: Get Information about Schools; DfE school census and absence statistics via the performance tables. What these figures mean.
About the school
- Type
- Community school (Local authority maintained schools)
- Phase
- Primary
- Boys, girls or mixed
- Mixed
- Religious character
- Does not apply
- Nursery
- No Nursery Classes
- Sixth form
- Does not have a sixth form
- Local authority
- Dorset
- Parliamentary constituency
- Mid Dorset and North Poole
- URN
- 113675 (the DfE’s reference number for the school)
Source: Get Information about Schools (Department for Education). See the full record (opens in a new tab).
Admissions
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Apply for a primary place (GOV.UK)
How school admissions work: deadlines, oversubscription and appeals.