Three Legged Cross First and Nursery School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 2–9 · Wimborne, Dorset
Last distance offered · Reception 2023
2.174 miles
Published by Dorset Council · offers on 17 April 2023
2017 figure 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Three Legged Cross First and Nursery School is a primary school in Wimborne, Dorset for ages 2–9 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 21 February 2023. Dorset has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2017 to 2023 entry.
Three Legged Cross First and Nursery 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 2023 | 2.174 mi |
| Reception 2017 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- For Reception 2023, the last child offered a place lived 2.174 miles away, the 2nd shortest of the 4 Dorset primary schools with a published last distance, and about the same as in 2017.
- Reception 2026 had 9 first-choice applications for 12 offers, 0.8 first choices per offer, the 4th lowest of 116 Dorset primary schools.
- Every first-choice family was offered a Reception place in 2026, and 3 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
- The school has 28 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 22.5 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
- Church Road, Three Legged Cross, Wimborne, BH21 6RF
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–9
- Council
- Dorset
- Pupils on roll
- 84 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 19% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 28
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 21 February 2023
Strengths
- “Pupils are polite and well-mannered.”
- “Pupils are proud of their own and each other’s achievements.”
- “They know the school’s routines and leaders’ expectations.”
To improve
- “Subject leadership is less well developed in some subjects.”
- “Where this occurs, subject leaders do not help teachers to assess the impact of and revise the subject’s curriculum as intended.”
- “This means that, sometimes, gaps in pupils’ knowledge are not spotted and closed quickly enough.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 27 April 2023 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 9 first-preference applications, 12 offers in total, 9 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.
- Verwood Church of England First School 1.2 mi Good Last distance published
- St Mary's CofE First School & Nursery 1.8 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Hillside Community First School 2.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Trinity Church of England First School 2.2 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Oakhurst Community First School 2.2 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St Ives Primary & Nursery School 2.9 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Ferndown First School 3.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- St James Church of England First School 3.7 mi Not judged Last distance published