Milldown CofE Academy
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 4–11 · Blandford Forum, Dorset
Last distance offered · Reception 2024
0.902 miles
Published by Dorset Council · offers on 16 April 2024
2015–2023 trend 🔒
Milldown CofE Academy is a primary school in Blandford Forum, Dorset for ages 4–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 11 October 2022. Dorset has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2015 to 2024 entry.
Milldown CofE Academy 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 2024 | 0.902 mi |
| Reception 2023 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2022 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2020 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2019 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2018 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2017 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2015 | 🔒 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 in 2024 lived 0.902 miles away, the 3rd shortest of 7 Dorset primary schools with a published last distance (middle figure 0.97 miles).
- The 2024 Reception last distance was further from the school than in 2023 and nearer than in 2015, and it swung sharply between some years.
- For Reception 2026, there were 19 first-choice applications for 19 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 48% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), the 3rd lowest 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
- Milldown Road, Blandford Forum, DT11 7SN
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Council
- Dorset
- Pupils on roll
- 200 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 23% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 19.2
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 11 October 2022
Strengths
- “Milldown Academy has a caring ethos.”
- “Adults teach pupils to be kind and respectful.”
- “Pupils are polite, courteous and well mannered.”
To improve
- “Leaders rightly recognise that some subjects are not yet implemented as effectively as in the more developed subjects.”
- “Where this is the case, teachers do not build on what pupils already know and can do.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 28 November 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) | 48% | 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: 19 first-preference applications, 19 offers in total, 19 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.
- Archbishop Wake Church of England Primary School 0.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Blandford St Mary Church of England Primary School 1.2 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Durweston Church of England Primary School 1.7 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Pimperne Church of England VC Primary School 2.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Downlands Community School 2.4 mi No Ofsted grade
- Spetisbury CofE Primary School 3.3 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Shillingstone Church of England Primary School 3.8 mi Good Last distance published
- St Nicholas Church of England Primary School, Child Okeford 4.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published