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We consulted on the admissions arrangements for the academic year 2024 to 2025. The consultation ran from Monday 7 November 2022 to Sunday 18 December 2022.
Policies that will affect all schools
See policies:
- Armed Forces Policy 2024 to 2025
- Coordinated Scheme Timetable 2024 to 2025
- Guidance on placement outside chronological age group 2024 to 2025
- In Year Coordinated Scheme 2024 to 2025
- Primary Coordinated Scheme 2024 to 2025
- Secondary Coordinated Scheme 2024 to 2025
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 Voluntary Controlled Schools 2024 to 2025
- Maintained Nursery Units Policy 2024 to 2025
- Sixth Form Admission Policy 2024 to 2025
Policies for schools that have their own admissions policies
First schools:
- 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 Ives First School
- St James CE First School, Alderholt
- St James CE First School, Wimborne
- 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 schools:
- Archbishop Wake CE Primary School
- Beaminster St Mary's Academy
- Beechcroft St Paul's Primary
- Bere Regis Primary School
- Blandford St Mary Primary School
- Bovington Academy School
- Bridport Primary School
- Buckland Newton Primary School
- Burton Bradstock CE Primary School
- Chickerell Primary Academy
- Corfe Castle CE Primary School
- Dunbury CE Academy
- Durweston CE Primary School
- Loders Primary School
- Lytchett Matravers Primary School
- Marshwood Primary School
- Milldown CE Academy, Blandford
- Milton-On-Stour Primary School
- Motcombe CE Primary School
- Parrett & Axe CE VA 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 Augustine's Catholic Primary School, Weymouth
- St Catherine's Catholic Primary School, Bridport
- St George's CE Primary School, Bourton
- St George's CE Primary School, Langton Matravers
- St. Gregory's CE Primary School, Marnhull
- St. George's Primary School, Portland
- 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 Catholic Primary School, Swanage
- St Mary's RC Primary School, Marnhull
- St Mary and St Joseph's Catholic Primary School
- St. Mary the Virgin CE VA Primary School, Gillingham
- St Michael's CE VA Primary School, Lyme Regis
- St Nicholas CE VA Primary School, Child Okeford
- St Nicholas & St Laurence CE Primary School
- Stoborough CE Primary School
- Symondsbury CE Primary School
- 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 schools:
- Allenbourn Middle School
- Emmanuel CE Middle School
- Ferndown Middle School
- Lockyer's Middle School
- St Michael's CE Middle School, Wimborne
- St. Osmund's CE Middle School, Dorchester
Secondary schools:
- 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 Woodroffe School
Upper schools: