Malmesbury Park Primary School
Bournemouth, BH8 8LU · Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole local authority
Bournemouth’s School Grade A better than 87% of towns in England
What stands out about Malmesbury Park Primary School
- Its own letter, C: Key Stage 2 results better than 31% of England’s primary schools
- 56% meet the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 6 points below England’s schools
- Over capacity: 693 pupils for 642 places
- Ofsted report card, June 2026: achievement needs attention, safeguarding met (shown, not graded)
- Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026 (58 of 58)
- Homes in its postcode sector (BH8 8) sold for a median £222,250; Bournemouth’s is £308,000
Results
DfE · Key Stage 2Reading, writing and maths 56%
Met the expected standard, DfE’s 3-year average 2023–2025 · higher than 31% of England’s 14,979 graded primaries · Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole avg 63%
Each subject, 2025
Met the expected standard; the mark is England’s schools · average scaled score: reading 104, maths 103 (100 = the expected standard)
Disadvantaged pupils, 2025
Met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths: the 31 disadvantaged pupils and the rest, beside England’s schools
England’s figures are of its graded mainstream state schools, each school counted once; grammar schools are included, which is why the right-hand tail is long. Small cohorts are suppressed.
How hard is it to get a place at Malmesbury Park Primary School?
Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026.
Years when some first choices missed out: 2019 (23), 2020 (21), 2021 (16), 2022 (11), 2023 (7), 2024 (7), 2025 (13). The council runs the coordinated admissions; each school’s rules (siblings, distance, faith) decide who gets in. DfE doesn’t publish the furthest distance offered, so check the council’s admissions booklet for that. Reach South Academy Trust sets the admissions rules. Apply through Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole council’s coordinated admissions.
Outline = places offered · green = families who put it first · striped = more first choices than places · the 10 most in demand
100% got their first choice
Bournemouth and Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, side by side
2023–2025All 52 graded primaries in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole. Schools with more pupils on free school meals usually score lower, so a school above the crowd for its free school meals is doing better than its intake predicts. Bournemouth’s schools are coloured by their letter.
Show as a table
| School | Letter | Free school meals | KS2 expected standard |
|---|---|---|---|
| St. Walburga's Catholic Primary School | A+ | 9% | 93% |
| Winton Primary School | A+ | 14% | 89% |
| Mudeford Junior School | A | 20% | 82% |
| Avonwood Primary School | A | 9% | 81% |
| St Katharine's Church of England Primary School | A | 6% | 78% |
| Corpus Christi Catholic Primary School | A | 14% | 77% |
| Moordown St John's Church of England Primary School | A | 14% | 77% |
| St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Christchurch | A− | 32% | 75% |
| Ocean Academy Poole | A− | 30% | 74% |
| Twynham Primary School | A− | 13% | 74% |
| Queen's Park Academy | A− | 14% | 72% |
| Canford Heath Junior School | A− | 22% | 72% |
| St Mark's Church of England Primary School | A− | 10% | 72% |
| Christchurch Junior School | A− | 16% | 72% |
| Muscliff Primary School | A− | 20% | 71% |
| Baden-Powell and St Peter's Church of England Junior School | B+ | 12% | 70% |
| Stourfield Junior School | B+ | 17% | 70% |
| St Peter's Catholic Comprehensive School | B+ | 14% | 69% |
| The Epiphany School | B+ | 4% | 69% |
| St James' Church of England Primary Academy | B+ | 17% | 68% |
| Haymoor Junior School | B+ | 27% | 68% |
| The Priory Church of England Primary School | B | 6% | 67% |
| St Michael's Church of England Primary School | B | 15% | 65% |
| Talbot Primary School | B | 23% | 65% |
| Elm Academy | B− | 36% | 64% |
| Pokesdown Community Primary School | B− | 17% | 64% |
| Bishop Aldhelm's Church of England Primary School | B− | 15% | 62% |
| St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Poole | B− | 25% | 61% |
| St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Poole | B− | 11% | 61% |
| Hill View Primary Academy | B− | 17% | 61% |
| Longfleet Church of England Primary School | B− | 15% | 61% |
| Hillbourne Primary School | B− | 42% | 61% |
| Jewell Academy Bournemouth | C+ | 26% | 59% |
| Broadstone Middle School | C+ | 19% | 58% |
| Hamworthy Park Junior School | C+ | 29% | 58% |
| Heatherlands Primary School | C+ | 29% | 58% |
| Burton Church of England Primary School | C | 16% | 57% |
| Highcliffe St Mark Primary School | C | 6% | 57% |
| King's Park Academy | C | 29% | 57% |
| Kingsleigh Primary School | C | 37% | 57% |
| Malmesbury Park Primary School | C | 22% | 56% |
| Bearwood Primary and Nursery School | C | 24% | 56% |
| Oakdale Junior School | C | 36% | 55% |
| Kinson Academy | C | 41% | 55% |
| Livingstone Road Junior School | C− | 33% | 51% |
| Manorside Academy | C− | 33% | 50% |
| Bayside Academy | C− | 52% | 48% |
| Somerford Primary School | D | 47% | 40% |
| Bethany Church of England Junior School | D | 46% | 40% |
| St Luke's Church of England Primary School | D | 30% | 40% |
| Heathlands Primary Academy | D− | 70% | 34% |
| Christ The King Catholic Primary School | D− | 18% | 32% |
Who goes here
DfE school census, January 2025688 pupils. SEN support is extra help in school for a special educational need; an EHC plan is the council’s legal plan for pupils who need more.
Girls and boys
Malmesbury Park Primary School’s letter
Its own results against England’s schools, not the town’s School Grade.
How school letters are worked out
Each school’s measure is compared with every graded school in England of the same phase: for primaries, the share of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (DfE’s three-year average); for secondaries, Attainment 8 and the share with grade 5 or above in English and maths, each turned into a z-score against England’s schools and averaged. The letter comes from the share of those schools it beats, in the same bands as every grade on the site. The same method gives U.S. schools their letters, against their own state.
Graded: England’s open mainstream state schools with published results (grammar schools included, which select by test). Not graded: special schools, alternative provision, nurseries, 16–19 colleges, UTCs and studio schools, Welsh schools. Ofsted plays no part.
Ofsted inspections
Shown, not graded: Ofsted is never part of a letter or the School Grade.
Report card, inspection starting June 2026.
Before the report card: Graded inspection: Good, March 2022.
Living near Malmesbury Park Primary School
For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.
Home prices in BH8 8, the school’s postcode sector
Bournemouth property prices →Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025
By type, the 36 months to August 2026
Homes in BH8 8 sell for well under Bournemouth’s typical price. HM Land Registry Price Paid, standard sales. Catchments aren’t published, so the postcode sector stands in for “around the school”.
Schools within 1.6 miles
17 state schoolsLocation
Directions ↗Bournemouth, BH8 8LU
Malmesbury Park Primary School: common questions
Is Malmesbury Park Primary School a good school?
By its published results, below average: its Key Stage 2 results are better than 31% of England’s primary schools (its letter is C), with 56% of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, against 62% for England’s schools. Ofsted: a report card in June 2026.
How hard is it to get into Malmesbury Park Primary School?
For September 2026, 58 families put Malmesbury Park Primary School first and all of them were offered a place; 61 places were offered in all.
What is Malmesbury Park Primary School’s Ofsted rating?
Its latest inspection (June 2026) gave a report card: achievement needs attention, safeguarding met. Ofsted stopped giving one-word overall grades in September 2024.
How much do houses cost near Malmesbury Park Primary School?
Homes in its postcode sector, BH8 8, sold for a median £222,250 over the 36 months to August 2026 (408 sales).
Sources: DfE Get Information about Schools (16 October 2026), Key Stage 2 performance tables (2023–2025, three-year average) and Key Stage 4 (2025/26, provisional); Ofsted state-funded school inspections as at 30 September 2026. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Also: DfE Key Stage 4 performance, schools data (2023/24 and 2024/25 final, 2025/26 provisional) and Key Stage 2 performance tables 2024/25 by subject; DfE school census, January 2025; DfE school-level applications and offers, September 2019 to 2026 entry; HM Land Registry Price Paid by postcode sector, 2010 to August 2026.
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