Budmouth Academy Weymouth
Secondary · Academy sponsor led · Ages 11–18 · Weymouth, Dorset
Last distance offered · Year 7 2025
1.733 miles
Published by Dorset Council · offers on 3 March 2025
2015–2024 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Budmouth Academy Weymouth is a secondary school in Weymouth, Dorset for ages 11–18 (academy sponsor led). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Requires improvement, from the inspection on 19 March 2024. Dorset has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2015 to 2025 entry.
Budmouth Academy Weymouth 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 |
|---|---|
| Year 7 2025 | 1.733 mi |
| Year 7 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2023 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2021 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2020 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2019 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2018 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2017 | 🔒 With a pass |
And 2 earlier figures.
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- The last Year 7 child offered a place in 2025 lived 1.733 miles away, nearer the school than in 2024 but further than in 2015.
- Every applicant was offered a Year 7 place in 1 of the 10 years with a published outcome, and the last distance swung sharply between some years.
- For Year 7 in 2026 there were 234 first-choice applications for 235 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
- 40% got grade 5 or above in GCSE English and maths in 2024/25 (England 45%), 5th highest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest secondary 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
- Chickerell Road, Weymouth, DT4 9SY
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–18
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Dorset
- Pupils on roll
- 1,466 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 25.4% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 15.6
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Requires improvement Inspected 19 March 2024
Strengths
- “Budmouth Academy’s extra-curricular offer is a strength of the school.”
- “The majority of pupils take part in the wide range of clubs and activities, including the Combined Cadet Force and the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award.”
- “Many pupils take on leadership roles, for example as anti-bullying ambassadors or academy council representatives.”
To improve
- “The school’s published examination results are below national averages in many areas.”
- “The expectations of what pupils should know and be able to do are not consistent.”
- “Pupils do not learn consistently well across the curriculum.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 13 May 2024 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Exam results
| Measure | School | England |
|---|---|---|
| GCSE English and maths, grade 5 or above (2024/25) | 40% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 42 | 46 |
| A level average grade (2024/25) | C- | B- |
Department for Education school performance data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Year 7 entry: 234 first-preference applications, 235 offers in total, 234 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 secondary schools
Straight-line distance, in Dorset.
- All Saints' Church of England Academy 1.3 mi Requires improvement Last distance published
- Wey Valley Academy 2.4 mi Good Last distance published
- The Thomas Hardye School 6.9 mi Not judged
- Dorset Studio School 8.3 mi Good Last distance published
- The Sir John Colfox Academy 14.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- The Purbeck School 16.9 mi Improved significantly Last distance published
- Beaminster School 17.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Lytchett Minster School 21.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published