Manor Park Church of England First School

Academy sponsor led·First school Dorchester, Dorset·DT1 2BH

School type

First school

Ages 2–9

Key Stage 2 performance

Manor Park Church of England First 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

98%

54 first choices, 57 places

First choices per place

0.95

fewer first choices than places

Applications naming the school

114

any preference, for 57 places

First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.12

00.511.5

1 per place

n/a20220.9320230.7320240.8220250.952026

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

We do not have a checked cut-off distance for Manor Park 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

New framework · Last inspection: 13/01/2026 · Read full report ↗

Achievement

Expected standard

Leadership and governance

Expected standard

Curriculum and teaching

Expected standard

Attendance and behaviour

Expected standard

Personal development and wellbeing

Expected standard

Inclusion

Expected standard

Safeguarding standards

Met

Early years

Expected standard

School profile

Age range: 2–9
Pupils on roll: 422
Gender: Mixed
Religious character: Church of England

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6

17.3%

Typical primary: 21.5%

% EAL

18.5%

Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support

18.7%

Typical primary: 14.3%

% with an EHC plan

3.3%

Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence

5.8%

Typical primary: 5.3%

Persistently absent

18.2%

Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher

26.5

Typical primary: 20.7

Spend per pupil

£5,358

Typical primary: £6,960

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

Nearby primary schools

St Osmund's Church of England Middle School Dorchester · 0.1 mi 51.7 Dorchester Middle School Dorchester · 0.8 mi 37.7 St Andrew's Church of England Primary School Weymouth · 4.1 mi 39.9 Bincombe Valley Primary School Weymouth · 4.1 mi 45.0 St Nicholas and St Laurence Church of England Primary School Weymouth · 4.4 mi 55.2 St Mary's Church of England Middle School, Puddletown Dorchester · 4.6 mi 52.5 Radipole Primary School Weymouth · 5.2 mi 46.0 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

Manor Park Church of England First School at a glance

Located in Dorchester, Dorset, Manor Park Church of England First School is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a sponsor-led academy with a Church of England religious character. The school educates roughly 422 pupils aged 2 to 9. Ofsted judged the school to be 'Inadequate' when it was last inspected in January 2026.

98% of the families who made Manor Park Church of England First School their first choice were offered a Reception place for September 2026, even though the school made at least as many offers as it had first choices - the rest withdrew, moved or fell outside a priority group. Overall pupil absence was 5.8%. There are about 26.5 pupils per teacher. If you are considering Manor Park Church of England First School, it may be worth asking how leaders have responded to Ofsted's findings and what has changed since the inspection. 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.