Hillside Community First School

Academy converter·First school Verwood, Dorset·BH31 7HE

School type

First school

Ages 4–9

Key Stage 2 performance

Hillside Community First School is a first school for pupils aged 4–9. 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

100%

40 first choices, 43 places

First choices per place

0.93

fewer first choices than places

Applications naming the school

any preference, for 43 places

Applications from another council area

First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.05

00.511.5

1 per place

0.8520220.8920231.0020240.9820250.932026

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

Every child who put Hillside Community First School first was offered a place in 2026, so no distance cut-off applied: living further away did not cost a place that year.

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

School profile

Age range: 4–9
Pupils on roll: 206
Gender: Mixed
Religious character: None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6

17.5%

Typical primary: 21.5%

% EAL

1.0%

Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support

14.6%

Typical primary: 14.3%

% with an EHC plan

2.4%

Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence

5.3%

Typical primary: 5.3%

Persistently absent

13.9%

Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher

27.8

Typical primary: 20.7

Spend per pupil

£5,879

Typical primary: £6,960

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

Nearby primary schools

Emmanuel Church of England Middle School Verwood · 0.7 mi 53.9 Cranborne Middle School Wimborne · 3.4 mi 51.6 St Ives Primary & Nursery School Ringwood · 3.7 mi 73.7 West Moors Middle School Ferndown · 4.2 mi 50.5 Ferndown Middle School Ferndown · 5.6 mi 30.4 St Michael's Church of England Middle School, Colehill Wimborne · 6.4 mi 53.9 Allenbourn Middle School Wimborne · 7.4 mi 53.5

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 Hillside Community First School

Hillside Community First School is a primary school in Verwood, Dorset, classified by the DfE as a converter academy. Around 206 pupils aged 4 to 9 attend the school.

Hillside Community First School was not oversubscribed for September 2026: all 40 families who put it first were offered a place. Overall pupil absence was 5.3%. There are about 27.8 pupils per teacher. Hillside Community First 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.