School profile
Dorchester Middle School
Queen's Avenue, Dorchester, Dorset, DT1 2HS
Overview
Dorchester Middle School is a state-funded school (academy converter) in Dorchester, South West, for pupils aged 9–13. This summary is generated only from official structured fields.
School details
- Official establishment type
- Academy converter
- Establishment group
- Academies
- Phase of education
- Middle deemed secondary
- Age range
- Ages 9–13
- Gender of entry
- Mixed
- Boarding
- No boarders
- Sixth form
- No
- School capacity
- 600
- Pupils on roll
- 527
- URN
- 138186
Admissions
- Local authority
- Dorset
- Academy trust or group
- WESSEX MULTI ACADEMY TRUST
Contact the school or your local authority for catchment and application deadlines.
School places
DfE school capacity survey · May 2025 (2024/25)
- Capacity at survey date
- 600
- Pupils on roll
- 542
- Unfilled places at survey date
- 58
A dated snapshot from the Department for Education school capacity survey, separate from the school details above. Unfilled places at the survey date do not mean places are currently available for admission. About this data
Official performance data
School performance
Official Department for Education results for this school. Results are shown for the academic year they relate to.
Primary
2024/25 results
Reading, writing & maths — meeting the expected standard
- School
- 49%
- England
- 62%
Pupils included: 124
Reading, writing & maths — achieving a higher standard
- School
- 5%
- England
- 8%
Pupils included: 124
Source: Department for Education · School performance data.
Official inspection data
Ofsted inspections
Inspection information published by Ofsted, shown in Ofsted's own words.
Ofsted report card
Inspected 2 June 2026 · Published 5 July 2026
Renewed education inspection framework
- Safeguarding standards
- Met
- Inclusion
- Expected standard
- Curriculum and teaching
- Expected standard
- Achievement
- Needs attention
- Attendance and behaviour
- Strong standard
- Personal development and wellbeing
- Expected standard
- Early years (where applicable)
- Not applicable
- Post-16 provision (where applicable)
- Not applicable
- Leadership and governance
- Expected standard
Previous inspection information
Ofsted inspection
Inspected 13 June 2023 · Published 1 August 2023
Overall effectiveness: Requires improvement
Safeguarding was effective: Yes
Ofsted changed how it inspects and reports on schools in November 2025. Judgements from the previous and current frameworks use different systems and should not be directly compared.
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Source: Ofsted · Inspections and outcomes. Official Ofsted page for this school
SEND and additional needs
Types of special educational need recorded in the official dataset. These describe recorded provision, not a judgement of quality.
- PD - Physical Disability
Location
- Address
- Queen's Avenue, Dorchester, Dorset, DT1 2HS
- Local authority
- Dorset
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