Trinity Church of England First School

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

School type

First school

Ages 4–9

Key Stage 2 performance

Trinity Church of England 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

83%

36 first choices, 30 places

First choices per place

1.20

more first choices than places

Applications naming the school

any preference, for 30 places

Applications from another council area

First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.11

00.511.5

1 per place

1.0720221.0020230.9020241.3120251.202026

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

We do not have a checked cut-off distance for Trinity Church of England First 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

Good

Personal development

Outstanding

Leadership and management

Outstanding

Safeguarding effective?

Yes

Early years provision

Good

School profile

Age range: 4–9
Pupils on roll: 117
Gender: Mixed
Religious character: Church of England

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6

12.8%

Typical primary: 21.5%

% EAL

2.6%

Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support

10.3%

Typical primary: 14.3%

% with an EHC plan

0.8%

Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence

3.6%

Typical primary: 5.3%

Persistently absent

6.1%

Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher

20.9

Typical primary: 20.7

Spend per pupil

£6,812

Typical primary: £6,960

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

Nearby primary schools

Emmanuel Church of England Middle School Verwood · 0.9 mi 53.9 Cranborne Middle School Wimborne · 3.1 mi 51.6 St Ives Primary & Nursery School Ringwood · 4.1 mi 73.7 West Moors Middle School Ferndown · 4.5 mi 50.5 Ferndown Middle School Ferndown · 5.8 mi 30.4 St Michael's Church of England Middle School, Colehill Wimborne · 6.5 mi 53.9 Allenbourn Middle School Wimborne · 7.5 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

Trinity Church of England First School at a glance

Located in Verwood, Dorset, Trinity Church of England First School is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a converter academy with a Church of England religious character. The school educates roughly 117 pupils aged 4 to 9.

Trinity Church of England First 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 36 first choices for 30 places. Overall pupil absence was 3.6%. There are about 20.9 pupils per teacher. Trinity Church of England 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.