Hayeswood First School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 5–9 · Wimborne, Dorset
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
0.811 miles
Published by Dorset Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2016–2025 trend 🔒
Hayeswood First School is a primary school in Wimborne, Dorset for ages 5–9 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 21 November 2023. Dorset has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2016 to 2026 entry.
Hayeswood First 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 2026 | 0.811 mi |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2022 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2021 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2019 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2018 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2017 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2016 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- For Reception 2026, the last child offered a place lived 0.811 miles away, the 3rd shortest of 31 Dorset primary schools with a published last distance (middle figure 1.64 miles).
- The 2026 Reception last distance was nearer the school than in 2025 and 2016, and it swung sharply between some years, most of all from 2018 to 2019.
- Reception 2026 drew 34 first-choice applications for 30 offers; 29 offers went to first-choice families, and 5 first-choice families (15%) were not offered a place.
- There were 28.1 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 20.5 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
- Cutlers Place, Colehill, Wimborne, BH21 2HN
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 5–9
- Council
- Dorset
- Pupils on roll
- 148 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 7.4% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 28.1
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 21 November 2023
Strengths
- “Hayeswood First School is a place where pupils feel safe and happy.”
- “These are well understood by pupils and provide clear expectations of how pupils should behave.”
- “Consequently, pupils are committed to their learning.”
To improve
- “However, in a minority of wider curriculum subjects, gaps in pupils’ learning are not always clear because assessment is not precise enough for each concept.”
- “This means that in these subjects, the school does not have accurate oversight of pupils’ knowledge.”
- “However, in some cases, inaccurate number formation within mathematics learning sometimes goes unaddressed.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 19 January 2024 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 34 first-preference applications, 30 offers in total, 29 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.
- Colehill First School 0.2 mi Good Last distance published
- St John's Church of England First School, Wimborne 1.3 mi Good Last distance published
- Hampreston Church of England Voluntary Aided First School 1.6 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Wimborne First School and Nursery 1.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Ferndown First School 2.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Pamphill Church of England First School 2.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Parley First School 2.7 mi Good Last distance published
- St James Church of England First School 2.9 mi Not judged Last distance published