Sturminster Marshall First School
State-Funded School
Not published
No overall grade
About the School
Sturminster Marshall First School is a state-funded primary for pupils aged 4–9, located in Dorset, South West.
It currently serves 49 pupils.
Ofsted Rating
Yes
2025
Subject Areas
Leadership &management
Requires improvement
Quality ofeducation
Requires improvement
Personaldevelopment
Good
Behaviour &attitudes
Good
Early yearsprovision
Good
Academic Performance
No DfE attainment data is published for this school — usually because the cohort is too small to report without identifying pupils.
Ethnicity
Pupils
Total Pupils
49%Boys
51%GirlsPupil Characteristics
DfE school census, January 2026.
Key Information
- Phase
- Primary
- Age range
- 4 – 9
- Deprivation band
- Least deprived
- Total pupils
- 49
- IDACI quintile
- 1 (Most deprived)
Inspection history
3 graded inspections published by Ofsted. Ungraded and monitoring visits are not shown.
| Report published | Overall | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 Jul 2025 | Requires improvement | Requires improvement | Good | Good | Not judged |
| 30 Jan 2023 | Requires improvement | Requires improvement | Good | Good | Requires improvement |
| 9 Jul 2007 | Good | Not reported in this inspection | Not reported in this inspection | Not reported in this inspection | Outstanding |
A grey dot means Ofsted did not report that judgement in the inspection of the day — the sub-judgements shown here were introduced with the 2019 framework.
Ofsted data as at 31 December 2024. A school may have been inspected since, or had an ungraded visit that does not change its grade — check Ofsted’s own record.
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