Rushcombe First School
Primary · Community school · Ages 4–9 · Wimborne, Dorset
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.518 miles
Published by Dorset Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2015–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Rushcombe First School is a primary school in Wimborne, Dorset for ages 4–9 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Outstanding, from the inspection on 30 November 2022. Dorset has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2015 to 2026 entry.
Rushcombe First School catchment area: last distance offered
Parents often call this the catchment area: it's how far from the school the last child offered a place lived. It changes every year.
| Entry | Last distance offered |
|---|---|
| Reception 2026 | 0.518 mi |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2023 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2021 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2020 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2019 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2018 | 🔒 With a pass |
And 3 earlier figures.
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- For Reception 2026, the last child offered a place lived 0.518 miles away, the 2nd shortest of 31 Dorset primary schools with a published last distance.
- Reception 2026 had 85 first-choice applications for 60 offers, which is 1.4 first choices per offer, the highest of 116 Dorset primary schools.
- For Reception 2026, 51 offers went to first-choice families, while 34 first-choice families (40%) were not offered a place.
- Of 169 Reception 2026 applications in all, 51 (30%) came from families living outside Dorset, and 1 offer went to them.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Dorset schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Hanham Road, Corfe Mullen, Wimborne, BH21 3PX
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–9
- Council
- Dorset
- Pupils on roll
- 313 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 7.3% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 21.6
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Outstanding Inspected 30 November 2022
Strengths
- “‘This is an exceptional school with the utmost emphasis placed on the child’s need and education’ is a view shared by many parents and shows what it is like to be a pupil at Rushcombe.”
- “Pupils flourish at this school and are proud to be part of it.”
- “Staff create an atmosphere which is calm and productive.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 31 January 2023 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 85 first-preference applications, 60 offers in total, 51 offers to first-preference applicants.
Department for Education, school-level applications and offers, figures on national offer day. Earlier years are in the pass.
Nearby primary schools
Straight-line distance, in Dorset.
- Henbury View First School 0.3 mi Good Last distance published
- Upton Infant School 2.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Upton Junior School 2.3 mi Good
- Pamphill Church of England First School 2.5 mi Good Last distance published
- Wimborne First School and Nursery 2.6 mi Good Last distance published
- St John's Church of England First School, Wimborne 2.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Lytchett Matravers Primary School 3.0 mi Good Last distance published
- Sturminster Marshall First School 3.1 mi Not judged Last distance published