Bridport, St Mary's Church of England Primary School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 4–11 · Bridport, Dorset
Last distance offered · Reception 2025
0.979 miles
Published by Dorset Council · offers on 16 April 2025
2020–2023 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Bridport, St Mary's Church of England Primary School is a primary school in Bridport, Dorset for ages 4–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 25 June 2024. Dorset has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2020 to 2025 entry.
Bridport, St Mary's Church of England 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 | 0.979 mi |
| Reception 2023 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2021 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2020 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- The last child offered a Reception place for 2025 lived 0.979 miles away, the shortest of 14 Dorset primary schools with a published last distance.
- The 2025 Reception last distance was the longest of the 4 years with a published distance, further than in 2023 and 2020, and it swung between years.
- For 2026 Reception entry there were 16 first-choice applications for 16 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 52% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), 5th highest of 9 schools: this one and 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
- Skilling Hill Road, Bridport, DT6 5LA
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Council
- Dorset
- Pupils on roll
- 194 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 29.9% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 16.7
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 25 June 2024
Strengths
- “St Mary’s Church of England Primary School is a ‘caring community where all can learn and shine’.”
- “Pupils are proud of their school and feel well looked after by adults.”
- “The school is ambitious for all pupils.”
To improve
- “However, when the planned curriculum is not followed as closely pupils do not revisit important knowledge or make links between topics covered.”
- “Consequently, pupils do not recall their previous learning as well as they might.”
- “However, opportunities for checking understanding between these assessments are less well established.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 19 July 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) | 52% | 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: 16 first-preference applications, 16 offers in total, 16 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.
- Bridport Primary School 1.0 mi Good Last distance published
- St Catherine's Roman Catholic School 1.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Symondsbury Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School 1.3 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Loders CofE Primary Academy 2.4 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Burton Bradstock Church of England Voluntary Controlled School 2.4 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Salway Ash Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School 3.5 mi Good Last distance published
- Powerstock Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School 4.2 mi Requires improvement
- Thorner's Church of England School, Litton Cheney 5.7 mi Not judged Last distance published