Lytchett Minster School
Secondary · Foundation school · Ages 11–19 · Poole, Dorset
Last distance offered · Year 7 2026
5.246 miles
Published by Dorset Council · offers on 2 March 2026
2015–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Lytchett Minster School is a secondary school in Poole, Dorset for ages 11–19 (foundation school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 22 February 2023. Dorset has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2015 to 2026 entry.
Lytchett Minster 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 |
|---|---|
| Year 7 2026 | 5.246 mi |
| Year 7 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2023 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2022 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2021 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2020 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2019 | 🔒 With a pass |
And 4 earlier figures.
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- There were 253 first-choice applications for 257 offers for Year 7 in 2026; 248 offers went to first-choice families, and 5 first-choice families were not offered a place.
- For Year 7 in 2026 the last child offered a place lived 5.246 miles away, further out than in 2025 and about the same as in 2015.
- In 2024/25, 47% of pupils got grade 5 or above in GCSE English and maths (England 45%), and the Attainment 8 score was 46.8 (England 46).
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
- Post Green Road, Purbeck, Lytchett Minster, Poole, BH16 6JD
- Type
- Foundation school
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–19
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Dorset
- Pupils on roll
- 1,624 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 16.6% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 17.3
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 22 February 2023
Strengths
- “They behave well in lessons, so learn without disruption.”
- “Leaders have high expectations of pupils’ attitudes to learning.”
- “Pupils live up to these expectations and appreciate their teachers’ subject expertise.”
To improve
- “Leaders usually challenge disrespectful behaviour, but a minority of pupils and parents say that some pupils are not as respectful as they should be.”
- “However, they do not identify the needs of some pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) precisely enough.”
- “As a result, adaptations to the curriculum for some pupils with SEND are not effective enough.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 27 April 2023 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Exam results
| Measure | School | England |
|---|---|---|
| GCSE English and maths, grade 5 or above (2024/25) | 47% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 46.8 | 46 |
| A level average grade (2024/25) | B- | B- |
Department for Education school performance data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Year 7 entry: 253 first-preference applications, 257 offers in total, 248 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 secondary schools
Straight-line distance, in Dorset.
- The Purbeck School 4.9 mi Improved significantly Last distance published
- Queen Elizabeth's School 5.1 mi Requires improvement
- Ferndown Upper School 8.2 mi No Ofsted grade
- The Swanage School 9.6 mi Good Last distance published
- The Blandford School 9.6 mi Good Last distance published
- Dorset Studio School 15.2 mi Good Last distance published
- Sturminster Newton High School 17.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- The Thomas Hardye School 17.4 mi Not judged