School profile
The Forum School
Shillingstone, Blandford Forum, Dorset, DT11 0QS
Overview
The Forum School is an independent school (other independent special school) in Blandford Forum, South West, for pupils aged 7–19. This summary is generated only from official structured fields.
School details
- Official establishment type
- Other independent special school
- Establishment group
- Special schools
- Age range
- Ages 7–19
- Gender of entry
- Mixed
- Boarding
- Boarding school
- Sixth form
- Yes
- School capacity
- 66
- Pupils on roll
- 31
- URN
- 116593
Admissions
- Local authority
- Dorset
Fees, scholarships and bursaries are not part of the official dataset. They will appear here once the school adds them.
Official inspection data
Ofsted inspections
Inspection information published by Ofsted, shown in Ofsted's own words.
Ofsted inspection
Inspected 22 October 2024 · Published 20 November 2024
Original education inspection framework (non-association independent schools)
Overall effectiveness
Requires improvement
This is a historical Ofsted judgement given under the previous inspection framework. It is not a School Nest rating.
- Quality of education
- Requires improvement
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Good
- Personal development
- Requires improvement
- Effectiveness of leadership and management
- Requires improvement
- Safeguarding was effective
- Yes
- Sixth form provision (where applicable)
- Requires improvement
Independent school standards
A regulatory check against the standards independent schools must meet. It is separate from Ofsted's inspection judgements and is not a rating.
Overall compliance
All standards met
Complies with its registration agreement.
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
Location
- Address
- Shillingstone, Blandford Forum, Dorset, DT11 0QS
- Local authority
- Dorset
Inspection
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- Inspectorate
- Ofsted
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