The Gryphon School
Secondary · Academy converter · Ages 11–18 · Sherborne, Dorset
Last distance offered · Year 7 2026
4.053 miles
Published by Dorset Council · offers on 2 March 2026
2015–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
The Gryphon School is a secondary school in Sherborne, Dorset for ages 11–18 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 21 June 2023. Dorset has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2015 to 2026 entry.
The Gryphon 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 | 4.053 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
- For Year 7 2026, the last child offered a place lived 4.053 miles away, about the same as in 2025 and nearer than in 2015.
- Year 7 2026 drew 265 first-choice applications for 234 offers, 1.1 first choices per offer, the highest of 13 Dorset secondary schools.
- Of the Year 7 2026 offers, 231 went to first-choice families and 34 first-choice families (13%) were not offered a place; 90 offers went to families living outside Dorset.
- In 2024/25, 44% of pupils got grade 5 or above in GCSE English and maths (England 45%), and the A level average grade was B- (England B-).
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
- Bristol Road, Sherborne, DT9 4EQ
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–18
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Council
- Dorset
- Pupils on roll
- 1,569 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 18% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 16.4
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
School remains Good Inspected 21 June 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils enjoy learning at the Gryphon School.”
- “Most enjoy positive relationships with each other and with staff.”
- “Pupils know the school’s mantra, ‘respect me, respect you’, well.”
To improve
- “However, this early reading curriculum is in its infancy.”
- “As a result, some pupils are not gaining the strong foundation in reading they need to succeed across the curriculum.”
- “For those pupils who can read fluently, too many do not extend their confidence and enjoyment of reading.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 18 September 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) | 46.7 | 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: 265 first-preference applications, 234 offers in total, 231 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.
- Sturminster Newton High School 9.3 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Gillingham School 12.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Beaminster School 14.0 mi Good Last distance published
- Shaftesbury School 14.5 mi Good
- The Blandford School 16.5 mi Good Last distance published
- Dorset Studio School 17.3 mi Good Last distance published
- The Thomas Hardye School 17.5 mi Not judged
- The Sir John Colfox Academy 17.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published