Heatherlands Primary School

Primary · Academy converter · Ages 4–11 · Poole, 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

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Heatherlands Primary School is a primary school in Poole, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole for ages 4–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 30 March 2022. Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2023 to 2025 entry.

Heatherlands 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 applicant was offered a Reception place in 2025, but places ran out, with a last distance published, in both earlier years, 2023 and 2024.
Reception last distances swung sharply between some years, the biggest move being from 2023 to 2024.
Reception 2026 had 92 first-choice applications for 89 offers; 86 offers went to first-choice families, and 6 first-choice families were not offered a place.
In 2024/25, 58% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), and 6% 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: Library Road, Parkstone, Poole, BH12 2BG
Type: Academy converter
Phase: Primary
Ages: 4–11
Council: Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
Pupils on roll: 616 January 2026 school census
Free school meals: 28.9% of pupils eligible
Pupils per teacher: 22.3

Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026

Ofsted

School remains Good Inspected 30 March 2022

Strengths

“Right from the early years, staff ensure that children understand why routines and being kind and polite are important.”
“They encourage and guide pupils to grow into responsible and caring young people.”
“Pupils have positive attitudes to learning and try hard in lessons.”

To improve

“However, some assessment practices are not consistently strong.”
“For example, teaching is not ensuring that a minority of pupils in Year 3 use their phonics to help them spell accurately.”
“Nonetheless, on occasions, some teaching is not adjusted astutely.”

Safeguarding: Effective

Quoted from the Ofsted report published 23 May 2022 (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: 92 first-preference applications, 89 offers in total, 86 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 Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Poole 0.4 mi Good Last distance published
Courthill Infant School 0.5 mi Good Last distance published
Livingstone Road Infant School 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
Bishop Aldhelm's Church of England Primary School 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
Livingstone Road Junior School 0.8 mi No Ofsted grade
Manorside Academy 1.0 mi Not judged Last distance published
Talbot Primary School 1.2 mi School remains Good Last distance published
Baden-Powell and St Peter's Church of England Junior School 1.2 mi Standards maintained