School profile
St Mary's Church of England Middle School, Puddletown
Coombe Road, Puddletown, Dorchester, Dorset, DT2 8SA
Overview
St Mary's Church of England Middle School, Puddletown 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
- Religious character
- Church of England
- School capacity
- 480
- Pupils on roll
- 441
- URN
- 138189
Admissions
- Local authority
- Dorset
- Academy trust or group
- WESSEX MULTI ACADEMY TRUST
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School places
DfE school capacity survey · May 2025 (2024/25)
- Capacity at survey date
- 480
- Pupils on roll
- 444
- Unfilled places at survey date
- 36
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
- 61%
- England
- 62%
Pupils included: 109
Reading, writing & maths — achieving a higher standard
- School
- 11%
- England
- 8%
Pupils included: 109
Source: Department for Education · School performance data.
Official inspection data
Ofsted inspections
Inspection information published by Ofsted, shown in Ofsted's own words.
Ofsted inspection
Inspected 18 September 2019 · Published 8 October 2019
Original education inspection framework (September 2019 to August 2024)
Overall effectiveness
Good
This is a historical Ofsted judgement given under the previous inspection framework. It is not a School Nest rating.
- Quality of education
- Good
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Good
- Personal development
- Good
- Effectiveness of leadership and management
- Good
- Safeguarding was effective
- Yes
Other recent inspection activity
These visits do not carry a graded judgement and do not replace the inspection above.
Ungraded inspection
Inspected 22 January 2025 · Published 4 March 2025
Outcome: Some aspects not as strong
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.
School Nest shows the inspection information Ofsted currently publishes for this school. It is not a complete record of every inspection the school has ever had.
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.
- OTH - Other Difficulty/Disability
- SLCN - Speech, language and Communication
- ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder
Location
- Address
- Coombe Road, Puddletown, Dorchester, Dorset, DT2 8SA
- Local authority
- Dorset
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