Wimborne First School and Nursery
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 2–9 · Wimborne, Dorset
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
1.130 miles
Published by Dorset Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2016–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Wimborne First School and Nursery is a primary school in Wimborne, Dorset for ages 2–9 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 2 July 2024. Dorset has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2016 to 2026 entry.
Wimborne First School and Nursery 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 2026 | 1.130 mi |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2016 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- In 2026 for Reception, the last child offered a place lived 1.130 miles away, the 10th shortest of 31 Dorset primary schools with a published last distance.
- For Reception in 2026, there were 71 first-choice applications for 59 offers, with 56 offers to first-choice families and 15 first-choice families not offered a place.
- Reception entry in 2026 had 1.2 first choices per offer, the 5th highest of 116 Dorset primary schools.
- For Reception in 2026, 26 of the 152 applications (17%) came from families living outside Dorset, and 4 offers went to them.
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
- Campanula Way, Wimborne, BH21 4FW
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–9
- Council
- Dorset
- Pupils on roll
- 400 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 12.3% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 21.4
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 2 July 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils flourish at this school.”
- “They thrive academically and emotionally.”
- “This is due to warm and caring relationships throughout.”
To improve
- “However, beyond the subject of reading, systems for checking what pupils have learned need further work.”
- “In some subjects, the assessments are too restrictive for pupils to fully show what they know.”
- “On some occasions teachers do not use the assessment information well enough to plan tasks that take into account what pupils can already do.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 10 September 2024 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 71 first-preference applications, 59 offers in total, 56 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.
- St John's Church of England First School, Wimborne 0.6 mi Good Last distance published
- Pamphill Church of England First School 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Colehill First School 1.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Hayeswood First School 1.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Rushcombe First School 2.6 mi Outstanding Last distance published
- Henbury View First School 2.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Hampreston Church of England Voluntary Aided First School 3.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- St James Church of England First School 3.1 mi Not judged Last distance published