Private schools in Dorset

Dorset has 14 private schools, also called independent schools. They are not ranked: the government leaves most private schools out of its results tables because they sit IGCSEs, and most are inspected by the Independent Schools Inspectorate rather than Ofsted, so there is nothing to rank them on that would be fair. The list shows what is published: the ages they take, how many pupils they have and who inspects them.

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Private schools (14)

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School	Type	Ages	Pupils	Low income	Ofsted
Bryanston SchoolBlandford Forum	Independent school	3-18	776	–	Not inspected
Castle Court School	Independent school	2-13	227	–	Not inspected
Clayesmore SchoolBlandford Forum	Independent school	2-19	414	–	Not inspected
Dumpton SchoolWimborne	Independent school	2-13	338	–	Not inspected
Hanford SchoolBlandford Forum	Independent school	7-13	69	–	Not inspected
Leweston SchoolSherborne	Independent school	2-19	577	–	Not inspected
Milton Abbey SchoolBlandford Forum	Independent school	13-19	190	–	Not inspected
Port Regis Preparatory SchoolShaftesbury	Independent school	2-13	305	–	Not inspected
Ringwood Waldorf SchoolRingwood	Independent school	2-19	248	–	Not inspected
Sherborne Preparatory SchoolSherborne	Independent school	3-14	204	–	Not inspected
Sherborne SchoolSherborne	Independent school	13-19	538	–	Not inspected
Sherborne School for GirlsSherborne	Independent school	11-19	456	–	Not inspected
Sunninghill Preparatory SchoolDorchester	Independent school	0-13	167	–	Not inspected
Yarrells Preparatory SchoolPoole	Independent school	0-11	238	–	Not inspected

Private schools by town in Dorset

Beaminster5 schools Blandford Forum18 schools Bridport11 schools Dorchester24 schools Ferndown7 schools Gillingham7 schools Poole5 schools Shaftesbury6 schools Sherborne13 schools Sturminster Newton6 schools Swanage5 schools Verwood4 schools Wareham10 schools Weymouth22 schools Wimborne23 schools

Private schools in nearby areas

Devon426 schools Gloucestershire338 schools Somerset307 schools Cornwall299 schools Wiltshire265 schools Bristol, City of174 schools South Gloucestershire126 schools Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole117 schools Plymouth107 schools Bath and North East Somerset94 schools Swindon92 schools North Somerset85 schools

About this list

Private schools charge fees and set their own admissions. The list comes from the Department for Education's register of schools, which records every registered independent school whether or not it publishes results. Most are inspected by the Independent Schools Inspectorate rather than Ofsted, and most sit IGCSEs, which the government leaves out of its performance tables. That is why they carry no School Chooser Score and are listed alphabetically rather than ranked. Fees are not published in any national dataset, so they are not shown here; ask the school. How the score works.