Damers First School
Primary · Dorchester · DT1 3DF
Ungraded inspection: no current grade
Ofsted's most recent visit was an ungraded inspection; its outcome was “Standards maintained”. 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 12 February 2025
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475 pupils · 79% of 600 capacity
- School type
- Academy converter
- Age range
- 4–9
- Gender
- Mixed
- Free school meals
- 19.2% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 14% of pupils
- SEN support
- 17.4% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 5.7% of pupils
- URN
- 147559
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
0.91 first-choice applications per place75 places offered · 68 first-choice applications · roughly balanced
First-choice applications per place, by entry year
Applications and offers on national offer day, DfE. A ratio above 1.00 means more families named this school first choice than there were places.
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)
97% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 3% 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, academy 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
- 11 February 2025: Standards maintained
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.