Beaminster School
Secondary · Voluntary controlled school · Ages 11–18 · Beaminster, Dorset
Last distance offered · Year 7 2025
7.005 miles
Published by Dorset Council · offers on 3 March 2025
2022–2024 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Beaminster School is a secondary school in Beaminster, Dorset for ages 11–18 (voluntary controlled school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 26 September 2023. Dorset has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2022 to 2025 entry.
Beaminster 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 2025 | 7.005 mi |
| Year 7 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2022 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- For Year 7 in 2026, there were 119 first-choice applications for 120 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
- For Year 7 in 2026, 58 of the 200 applications (29%) came from families living outside Dorset, and 48 offers went to them.
- For Year 7 in 2025, the last child offered a place lived 7.005 miles from the school, about the same as in 2022.
- In 2024/25, 44% of pupils got grade 5 or above in GCSE English and maths (England 45%); Attainment 8 score 47 (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
- Newtown, Beaminster, DT8 3EP
- Type
- Voluntary controlled school
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–18
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Religious character
- Christian
- Council
- Dorset
- Pupils on roll
- 673 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 22.3% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 15.9
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 26 September 2023
Strengths
- “Beaminster School is a community that pupils, parents, staff and governors are proud to be a part of.”
- “Pupils behave well in lessons and around the school site.”
- “Pupils and students in the sixth form have good relationships with adults, built on mutual respect and trust.”
To improve
- “Assessment is not always used effectively to check what pupils can and cannot do.”
- “Consequently, some teaching is not adapted to help pupils to correct mistakes or fill gaps in their knowledge.”
- “This makes it harder for pupils to then learn new content.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 13 November 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) | 44% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 47 | 46 |
| A level average grade (2024/25) | C- | 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: 119 first-preference applications, 120 offers in total, 119 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 Sir John Colfox Academy 4.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- The Woodroffe School 10.8 mi Good Last distance published
- The Gryphon School 14.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- The Thomas Hardye School 14.5 mi Not judged
- Dorset Studio School 16.1 mi Good Last distance published
- Wey Valley Academy 16.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Budmouth Academy Weymouth 17.8 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
- All Saints' Church of England Academy 19.1 mi Requires improvement Last distance published