The Prince of Wales School

Community school·First school Dorchester, Dorset·DT1 2HH

School type

First school

Ages 2–9

Key Stage 2 performance

The Prince of Wales School is a first school for pupils aged 2–9. Pupils move on to a separate junior or middle school before Year 6, so the school does not enter pupils for the Key Stage 2 SATs and has no KS2 results to publish.

This applies to every first school in England — it does not mean data is missing. Ofsted judgements and school information are shown below.

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first

78%

37 first choices, 29 places

First choices per place

1.28

more first choices than places

Applications naming the school

136

any preference, for 29 places

First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.76

00.511.522.5

1 per place

1.6720221.1720231.4120242.0320251.282026

Red dashed line = one first choice per place. How to read this

We do not have a checked cut-off distance for The Prince of Wales School yet. Dorset does publish allocation figures and we are working through them council by council — we only show a distance once we have found it in the council’s own document.

Application figures: DfE, school level applications and offers (2026 intake).

Ofsted judgements

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Quality of education

Good

Behaviour and attitudes

Outstanding

Personal development

Outstanding

Leadership and management

Good

Safeguarding effective?

Yes

Early years provision

Outstanding

School profile

Age range: 2–9
Pupils on roll: 156
Gender: Mixed
Religious character: None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6

12.2%

Typical primary: 21.5%

% EAL

1.9%

Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support

23.7%

Typical primary: 14.3%

% with an EHC plan

7.7%

Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence

4.9%

Typical primary: 5.3%

Persistently absent

10.1%

Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher

21.7

Typical primary: 20.7

Spend per pupil

£10,234

Typical primary: £6,960

“Typical” = the median primary school in England. What this means

Nearby primary schools

Dorchester Middle School Dorchester · 0.5 mi 37.7 St Osmund's Church of England Middle School Dorchester · 1.0 mi 51.7 Bincombe Valley Primary School Weymouth · 4.0 mi 45.0 St Nicholas and St Laurence Church of England Primary School Weymouth · 4.2 mi 55.2 St Andrew's Church of England Primary School Weymouth · 4.2 mi 39.9 Radipole Primary School Weymouth · 5.0 mi 46.0 Portesham Church of England Primary School Weymouth · 5.2 mi 39.9 St John's Church of England Primary School Weymouth · 5.4 mi 36.1

Location

Official sources

Latest Ofsted report reports.ofsted.gov.uk DfE Compare School Performance compare-school-performance.service.gov.uk GIAS school details get-information-schools.service.gov.uk

About The Prince of Wales School

The Prince of Wales School is a primary school in Dorchester, Dorset, classified by the DfE as a community school. Around 156 pupils aged 2 to 9 attend the school.

The Prince of Wales School is oversubscribed: about 8 in 10 of the families who made it their first choice were offered a Reception place for September 2026, with 37 first choices for 29 places. Overall pupil absence was 4.9%. There are about 21.7 pupils per teacher. Its intake is relatively advantaged, with around 12% of pupils eligible for free school meals in the last six years versus about 24% nationally. The Prince of Wales School does not currently have a recent graded Ofsted judgement on record (often the case for newer or recently converted schools), so it is worth asking when its next inspection is expected. This overview is generated automatically from the latest published DfE performance tables and Ofsted data; figures are rounded, and you can check the originals via the official links above.