Cranborne Middle School
Middle deemed secondary · Wimborne · BH21 5RP
Ungraded inspection: no current grade
Ofsted's most recent visit was an ungraded inspection; its outcome was “Some aspects not as strong”. Since September 2024 these outcomes no longer confirm a named grade, and the school's last graded inspection is too old to appear in Ofsted's current data file, so SchoolFacts shows no grade rather than guessing. Earlier grades are on the school's Ofsted report page.
Inspected 15 January 2025
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265 pupils · 100% of 256 capacity
- School type
- Community school
- Age range
- 9–13
- Gender
- Mixed
- Free school meals
- 18.5% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 0.3% of pupils
- SEN support
- 4.9% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 3.6% of pupils
- URN
- 113853
Key stage 2 results (2024/2025)
74 pupils at the end of key stage 2 in 2024/2025
Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025. “Suppressed” means the DfE withholds figures for very small cohorts.
Attendance (2025/26 autumn term)
Autumn-term absence, DfE pupil absence data. Lower is better.
Staffing
Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.
Teacher retention (2024/25)
77% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 23% left the state-funded sector
School Workforce Census, DfE. The ratio counts full-time-equivalent qualified teachers; retention follows teachers in post one November to the next. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Spending per pupil
Total expenditure ÷ pupils, council-maintained school finance return (DfE Schools Financial Benchmarking, latest year). Higher spending is not a measure of quality. It often reflects greater pupil need or a smaller school. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Inspection history since 2015
- 14 January 2025: Some aspects not as strong
- 11 June 2019: Good
- 15 November 2016: Requires improvement
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.
Nearby schools
- Cranborne Church of England First School
- Aurora Beeches School
- Wimborne St Giles Church of England First School and Nursery
- Trinity Church of England First School
- Hillside Community First School
- Emmanuel Church of England Middle School
- Verwood Church of England First School
- St James' Church of England First School and Nursery, Alderholt