Maiden Newton, Greenford Church of England Primary School
Voluntary controlled school · Dorchester · DT2 0AX
Ages 4–11 · 137 pupils · Dorset
Ofsted
Good
KS2 expected (RWM)
60%
Overall absence
5.9%
Admissions demand
1.00 · Balanced demand
Ofsted
Latest published inspection outcomes — not a ranking.
Headline
Good
Inspection date
2024-03-20
- Overall effectiveness
- Good
- Quality of education
- Good
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Good
- Personal development
- Good
- Leadership and management
- Good
- Safeguarding effective
- Yes
Performance
Official school-level results. Figures are not rankings — suppressed values are omitted.
Key stage 2 (2023/24)
- Avg scaled score — reading
- 106.0
- Avg scaled score — maths
- 102.0
- Avg scaled score — GPS
- 107.0
Absence
Academic year 2023/24. Persistent absence means 10%+ of sessions missed. Lower figures are better.
- Authorised absence
- 4.8%
- Severe absence (50%+)
- 2.3%
- Enrolments in measure
- 132
Absence trend
2021/22
2022/23
2023/24
- Overall
- Persistent (10%+)
Admissions demand
Coordinated admissions for primary entry (2024/25 cycle, national offer day). Demand ratio compares families who listed this school 1st with total offers made — not a catchment or distance guarantee.
Demand ratio
1.00 · Balanced demand
1st preferences
18
Places offered
18
1st-preference offers
18
- Total preferences (any rank)
- 26
- Preferred offers (top 3)
- 18
- Applications from outside LA
- 0
- Offers to outside-LA applicants
- 0
Source: DfE primary and secondary school applications and offers. Figures reflect offers on national offer day; late applications, appeals and waiting lists are not included.
Size & intake
From the GIAS school census (15 Jan 2026).
137 pupils · 150 places
- Pupils on roll
- 137
- Boys / girls
- 72 / 65
- School capacity
- 150
- Capacity fill
- 137 / 150 (91%)
- Free school meals
- 19.7%
- FSM pupils
- 27
- Gender
- Mixed
- School type
- Voluntary controlled school
Age range
Ages 4–11
Provision
Official GIAS characteristics
0 / 6
- Nursery
- Sixth form
- Boarding
- Special school
- Independent
- Academy
School characteristics
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Diocese
- Diocese of Salisbury
- Special classes
- No Special Classes
- Governance
- Voluntary controlled school
- Headteacher
- Miss Julie Attwell
Location
- Address
- Chilfrome Lane, Maiden Newton
- Postcode
- DT2 0AX
- Town
- Dorchester
- County
- Dorset
- Local authority
- Dorset
- District
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset
- Urban/rural
- Larger rural: Further from a major town or city
Local context
How this school sits among open establishments in its area, using official GIAS records. These are counts, not rankings.
Mixed voluntary controlled school (primary), Ages 4–11, in Dorchester, Dorset, 137 pupils on roll. Free school meals: 19.7%. Religious character: Church of England. Diocese: Diocese of Salisbury.
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Contact
- Headteacher
- Miss Julie Attwell
- Telephone
- 01300320644