Academy · Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
Parkstone Grammar School
- Secondary
- Ages 11–18
- Girls
- Selective (11+)
- Sixth form
- Term dates checked
Term dates
This school's own term dates broadly match Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole council's, so the council's dates are shown here. INSET days can differ, so check the school's calendar for those.
2026/27
2027/28
Admissions
Places for Year 7 are applied for through your home council, not the school.
Apply for a secondary school place on GOV.UK
Selective school: Year 7 entry is by an entrance test (the 11+). Registration for the test usually closes in the summer of Year 5.
For the sixth form, apply to the school directly.
How many families applied: Year 7
For September 2026, 213 families put this school as their first choice, and 192 places were offered. 179 of the families who put it first got a place (84%). More families put it first than there were places.
| Entry | Places offered | Put it first | Got their first choice |
|---|---|---|---|
| September 2026 | 192 | 213 | 84% |
| September 2025 | 192 | 239 | 76% |
| September 2024 | 191 | 227 | 81% |
Offers made on national offer day, from the Department for Education. Waiting lists and appeals can change things later. The hardest schools to get into.
11+ entrance test
This school uses Bournemouth and Poole Grammar Schools Consortium Test (Dorset Consortium), a shared test used by 3 other schools. Your child sits one test, and the result is shared with every school in the group that you apply to.
Ofsted inspection
Latest graded inspection, 20 May 2025. No overall grade was given (Ofsted stopped giving one in September 2024).
- Quality of education
- Good
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Outstanding
- Personal development
- Good
- Leadership and management
- Good
- Sixth form
- Good
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
- Academy
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–18
- Pupils
- 1241 (capacity 1300)
- Gender
- Girls
- Academy trust
- PARKSTONE GRAMMAR SCHOOL TRUST
- Admissions
- Selective (entrance test)
- Phone
- 01202605605
- Address
- Sopers Lane, Poole, BH17 7EP
- Website
- parkstone.poole.sch.uk
School details from the Department for Education's register of schools (Open Government Licence). Report a correction.