Wyke Regis Infant School and Nursery
Primary · Community school · Ages 3–7 · Weymouth, Dorset
Last distance offered · Reception 2024
0.621 miles
Published by Dorset Council · offers on 16 April 2024
2015–2020 trend 🔒
Wyke Regis Infant School and Nursery is a primary school in Weymouth, Dorset for ages 3–7 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Standards maintained, from the inspection on 14 May 2025. Dorset has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2015 to 2024 entry.
Wyke Regis Infant School and Nursery 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 2024 | 0.621 mi |
| Reception 2020 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2019 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2017 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2016 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2015 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- In 2024 the last child offered a Reception place lived 0.621 miles away, the 2nd shortest of the 7 Dorset primary schools with a published Reception 2024 last distance.
- That 2024 Reception distance was nearer the school than in 2016, and the 2024 figure was the shortest of the 4 years with a published distance.
- Reception 2026 drew 50 first-choice applications for 52 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place and 2 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- Of its pupils, 22.3% are eligible for free school meals, against a middle figure of 31.8% across the 8 nearest primary schools in Dorset.
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
- Shrubbery Lane, Wyke Regis, Weymouth, DT4 9LU
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 3–7
- Council
- Dorset
- Pupils on roll
- 220 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 22.3% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 16.5
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Standards maintained Inspected 14 May 2025
Strengths
- “A calm and welcoming atmosphere pervades this school.”
- “Staff greet pupils warmly each morning.”
- “Pupils arrive smiling and happy.”
To improve
- “However, sometimes the checks made on pupils’ learning do not identify where some pupils require support to further secure their learning.”
- “This means that, at times, pupils do not achieve all that they could.”
- “Published phonics outcomes for 2024 were below national average.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 19 June 2025 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 50 first-preference applications, 52 offers in total, 50 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.
- Wyke Regis Church of England Junior School 0.1 mi Good
- Holy Trinity Church of England VC Primary School & Community Nursery 0.6 mi Good Last distance published
- St Augustine's Catholic Primary School, Weymouth 0.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Conifers Primary School 1.2 mi Good Last distance published
- Beechcroft St Paul's CofE Primary School 1.3 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
- Chickerell Primary Academy 2.1 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Southill Primary School 2.2 mi Good Last distance published
- St John's Church of England Primary School 2.4 mi Good Last distance published