2023 to 2024 school admissions policies

Dorset Council consulted on the admissions arrangements for the academic year 2023 to 2024. The consultation ran from Monday 29 November 2021 to Sunday 23 January 2021.

Cabinet Report - School Admissions Arrangements 2023 to 2024

Determined policies that will affect all schools

See policies:

• Armed Forces Policy 2023 to 2024
• Co-ordinated Scheme Timetable 2023 to 2024
• Guidance on placement outside chronological age group Policy 2023 to 2024
• In Year Co-ordinated Scheme 2023 to 2024
• Primary Co-ordinated Scheme 2023 to 2024
• Secondary Co-ordinated Scheme 2023 to 2024
• Sixth Form Admissions Policy 2023-2024

Policies that will apply to Dorset Council (DC) schools

Community and voluntary controlled (VC) schools that use the school admissions policies created by DC:

• Admissions Arrangements for Community and VC Schools Policy 2023 to 2024
• Maintained Nursery Units Policy 2023 to 2024

Policies for schools that have their own admissions policies

First

• Colehill First School
• Cranborne CE First School
• Damers First School
• Ferndown First School
• Frome Valley First School
• Hampreston CE First School
• Hayeswood First School
• Henbury View First School
• Hillside First School, Verwood
• Milborne St Andrew First School
• Oakhurst Community First School
• Pamphill CE First School
• Parley First School
• Piddle Valley CE First School
• Puddletown First School
• Sixpenny Handley First School
• St. James CE First School, Wimborne 
• St. James CE First School, Alderholt 
• St. John's CE First School, Wimborne
• St. Mary's RC First School, Dorchester
• St. Mary's First School, West Moors 
• Three Legged Cross First School
• Trinity First School, Verwood
• Verwood CE First School
• Wimborne St Giles CE First School
• Winterbourne Valley CE VA First School
• Witchampton CE First School, Wimborne

Primary 

• Archbishop Wake CE Primary
• Beaminster St. Mary's Academy
• Beechcroft St. Paul's Primary
• Bere Regis Community School
• Blandford St. Mary's Primary School
• Bovington Academy School 
• Bridport Primary School
• Buckland Newton School
• Burton Bradstock CE Primary School
• Chickerell Primary Academy 
• Corfe Castle CE Primary School
• Dunbury CE Academy
• Durweston CE Primary School
• Loaders Primary School
• Lytchett Matravers Primary School
• Marshwood Primary School
• Milldown CE Academy, Blandford
• Milton-On-Stour Primary School
• Motcombe CE Primary School
• Okeford Fitzpaine CE Primary School
• Parrett & Axe CE Primary School
• Portesham Primary School
• Powerstock CE VA Primary School
• Salway Ash Primary School
• Sandford St Martin's Primary School
• Shaftesbury Abbey CE VA Primary School
• Shaftesbury CE Primary School
• Sherborne Abbey CE Primary School
• Sherborne Primary School
• Shillingstone CE Primary School
• Spetisbury CE Primary School
• St. Andrew's CE Primary School, Shaftesbury
• St. Andrew's CE Primary School, Sherborne 
• St. Andrew's CE Primary School, Weymouth
• St. Augustine's Catholic Primary School, Weymouth
• St. Catherine's Catholic Primary School, Bridport
• St. George's CE Primary School, Bourton, Gillingham
• St. George's CE Primary School, Langton Matravers
• St. George's Primary School, Portland 
• St. Gregory's CE Primary School, Marnhull
• St. Ives Primary School, Ringwood
• St. John's CE Primary School, Weymouth
• St. Mark's CE Primary School, Swanage
• St. Mary's CE Primary School, Bradford Abbas 
• St. Mary's CE Primary School, Bridport
• St. Mary's RC Primary School, Marnhull 
• St. Mary and St. Joseph RC Primary School, Wool
• St. Mary the Virgin CE VA Primary School, Gillingham
• St. Michaels CE VA Primary School, Lyme Regis 
• St Nicholas CE VA Primary School, Child Okeford 
• St. Nicholas and St Laurence Primary School
• Stalbridge Primary School
• Sticklands CE VA Primary School
• Stoborough CE Primary School
• Symondsbury CE VA Primary School
• The Atlantic Academy School, Portland
• Thorncombe St. Mary's CE Primary School
• Thorner's CE Primary School
• Thornford CE Primary School
• Trent Young's CE Primary School, Sherborne
• Upton Infants School
• Upton Junior School
• Wareham St. Mary CE Primary School
• Wool CE Primary School

Middle 

• Allenbourn Middle School
• Dorchester Middle School
• Emmanuel CE Middle School
• Ferndown Middle School
• Lockyer's Middle School
• St. Mary's CE Middle School, Puddletown
• St Michael's CE Middle School, Wimborne
• St. Osmund's CE Middle School, Dorchester

Secondary 

• All Saints CE Academy 
• Budmouth Academy
• Lytchett Minster School
• Shaftesbury School
• The Atlantic Academy, Portland 
• The Dorset Studio School
• The Gryphon School 
• The Purbeck School
• The Sir John Colfox School
• The Swanage School
• The Wey Valley Academy
• The Woodroffe School

Upper

• Queen Elizabeth School, Wimborne
• The Thomas Hardye School, Dorchester