Community school · Dorset
Ferndown Upper School
- Secondary
- Ages 13–19
- Sixth form
- Term dates set by the council
Term dates
Dorset council sets the term dates for this school. See all Dorset dates, taken from the council's own page.
2026/27
2027/28
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Admissions
Places for Year 7 are applied for through your home council, not the school.
Apply for a secondary school place on GOV.UK
How places are given: there's no entrance test. When there are more applicants than places, places usually go by criteria such as siblings, distance or catchment area. Check the council's or school's admissions policy for the exact rules.
For the sixth form, apply to the school directly.
Ofsted inspection
Report card, 3 March 2026. Ofsted now grades each area separately, from exceptional to urgent improvement, with no single overall grade.
- Inclusion
- Strong standard
- Curriculum and teaching
- Expected standard
- Achievement
- Strong standard
- Attendance and behaviour
- Strong standard
- Personal development and wellbeing
- Strong standard
- Sixth form
- Expected standard
- Leadership and governance
- Strong standard
Safeguarding standards: met.
From Ofsted's published inspection data (Open Government Licence). Report cards and older grades use different scales, so they can't be compared directly.
About and location
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 13–19
- Pupils
- 1134 (capacity 1146)
- Gender
- Mixed
- Phone
- 01202871243
- Address
- Cherry Grove, Ferndown, BH22 9EY
- Website
- fernup.dorset.sch.uk
School details from the Department for Education's register of schools (Open Government Licence). Report a correction.