Pokesdown Community Primary School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 4–11 · Bournemouth, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
Last distance offered · Reception 2025
Every applicant was offered a place
From Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council · offers on 16 April 2025
2023–2024 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Pokesdown Community Primary School is a primary school in Bournemouth, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole for ages 4–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 9 July 2024. Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2023 to 2025 entry.
Pokesdown Community Primary 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 2025 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2023 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- Every Reception applicant was offered a place in 2025, after places ran out in both 2023 and 2024; the last distance swung sharply, most of all between 2023 and 2024.
- Reception 2026 had 66 first-choice applications for 60 offers; 55 offers went to first-choice families and 11 first-choice families (17%) were not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 58% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), while 15% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Livingstone Road, Bournemouth, BH5 2AS
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
- Pupils on roll
- 417 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 16.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 18.1
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 9 July 2024
Strengths
- “At Pokesdown Community Primary School, each day gets off to a positive start.”
- “Dedicated leaders greet pupils as they arrive.”
- “This caring and welcoming start sets the tone for the rest of the school day.”
To improve
- “A small minority of younger pupils do not read with the fluency expected.”
- “However, in some wider curriculum subjects, assessment is not used with the same precision.”
- “As a result, some pupils struggle to recall the essential knowledge they have learned before.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 18 September 2024 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Exam results
| Measure | School | England |
|---|---|---|
| Key stage 2 · reading, writing and maths, expected standard (2024/25) | 58% | 62% |
Department for Education school performance data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 66 first-preference applications, 60 offers in total, 55 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 Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole.
- St James' Church of England Primary Academy 0.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Corpus Christi Catholic Primary School 0.3 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Avonwood Primary School 0.7 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Stourfield Infant School 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Stourfield Junior School 0.8 mi Standards maintained
- King's Park Academy 0.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St Clement's and St John's Church of England Infant School 1.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Bethany Church of England Junior School 1.2 mi Good
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