All Saints Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 4–11 · Sherborne, Dorset
Last distance offered · Reception 2025
3.813 miles
Published by Dorset Council · offers on 16 April 2025
2019–2024 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
All Saints Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School is a primary school in Sherborne, Dorset for ages 4–11 (academy converter). Dorset has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2019 to 2025 entry.
All Saints Church of England Voluntary Controlled 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 | 3.813 mi |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2023 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2022 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2019 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- The 2025 Reception last distance offered was 3.813 miles, 5th longest of the 14 Dorset primary schools with a published Reception 2025 last distance (middle figure 3.27 miles).
- That 2025 distance was further from the school than in 2024 and in 2019, and the figure has swung sharply, with the biggest move from 2024 to 2025.
- For Reception 2026 there were 13 first-choice applications for 13 offers, every first-choice family was offered a place, and 3 of the 22 applications came from families living outside Dorset.
- There are 25.5 pupils per teacher, against a middle figure of 21 across 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
- Giles Lane, Bishops Caundle, Sherborne, DT9 5NQ
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Council
- Dorset
- Pupils on roll
- 130 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 22.3% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 25.5
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
No Ofsted grade
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 13 first-preference applications, 13 offers in total, 13 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.
- Stalbridge Church of England Primary School 4.1 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Sherborne Primary School 4.3 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Sherborne Abbey Church of England Primary School 4.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Hazelbury Bryan Primary School 4.6 mi Good Last distance published
- Buckland Newton Church of England Primary School 4.8 mi No Ofsted grade
- Thornford CofE Primary School 5.6 mi Not judged Last distance published
- William Barnes Primary School 5.6 mi School remains Good
- St Gregory's Church of England Primary School, Marnhull 6.4 mi No Ofsted grade