Dorchester Primary School, Hull

Ofsted's report card from its 6 May 2026 inspection grades Dorchester Primary School on 7 areas: 1 strong standard and 6 expected standard. Report cards replaced single-word judgements in November 2025, on a five-point scale from exceptional to urgent improvement.

Inclusion - Strong standard. "Leaders know pupils extremely well."

Achievement - Expected standard. "Leaders ensure that pupils are well prepared for their next steps and, as a result, pupils achieve well."

Attendance and behaviour - Expected standard. "Attendance is improving."

Curriculum and teaching - Expected standard. "Leaders ensure that the curriculum identifies the most important knowledge pupils need to learn."

Early years - Expected standard. "Staff in the early years know the children very well."

Leadership and governance - Expected standard. "Leaders prioritise supporting all pupils to achieve well."

Personal development and wellbeing - Expected standard. "Leaders invest time to ensure pupils' personal development is at the forefront of the school's wider strategy."

Safeguarding standards were met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "Leaders should embed their work to identify the precise knowledge pupils need to learn in a few parts of the curriculum, so that it is well implemented and pupils make secure connections with their prior learning"; "Leaders should continue to embed their actions to raise the attendance of different pupil groups, so that the attendance of all pupils continues to improve".

In 2025, 76% of Year 6 pupils at Dorchester Primary School reached the expected standard in reading and 78% in maths. At the average state primary the figures were 76% and 76% in Kingston upon Hull, City of; and 77% and 75% across England.

Results were similar in 2024 (78% in reading, 71% in maths).

For September 2026 entry, 25 families put Dorchester Primary School as their first choice and 38 named it as one of their preferences, for 26 places offered. It had fewer first-choice applications than places. Every family who put it first was offered a place there for 2026 entry.

The nearest other state primary schools to Dorchester Primary School are St James' Church of England Academy (0.2 miles, Good, 77% reading, 73% maths); St Mary Queen of Martyrs VC Academy (0.4 miles, Good, 72% reading, 77% maths); Biggin Hill Primary School (0.6 miles, Outstanding, 76% reading, 74% maths); and Sutton Park Primary School (0.7 miles, Good, 88% reading, 88% maths).

Dorchester Primary School's 2025 results were higher than 3 of these 4 schools.

Dorchester Primary School is one of 16 schools run by Hull Collaborative Academy Trust, an academy trust.

Across the trust's primary schools, 66% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths in 2024/25.

46.8% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, well above the average state school (25%), and 6.1% speak English as an additional language, against 18.8% on average, according to the 2026 school census.

In 2026, 52 pupils (18.6%) received SEN support and 38 (13.6%) had an education, health and care plan, against 16.2% and 4.6% at the average state school. The most common need among them is speech, language and communication needs.

Dorchester Primary School has a SEN unit for speech, language and communication needs, autism and social, emotional and mental health needs: 30 places, 30 pupils on roll.

Dorchester Primary School had 20 teachers in 2026, one for every 14 pupils: more teachers per pupil than a typical primary school, at about one for every 20.

The nearest railway station is Hull Rail Station, about 2.7 miles away in a straight line.

4 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Dorchester Road, 260 metres away.

Measured by the 2025 English Indices of Deprivation, the neighbourhood Dorchester Primary School stands in is among the 10% most deprived neighbourhoods in England. This describes where the school is, not where its pupils live.

In 2024/25, Dorchester Primary School issued 3 suspensions, 1 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and no permanent exclusions.

The secondary schools closest to Dorchester Primary School are Winifred Holtby Academy (0.1 miles), Malet Lambert (1.1 miles) and Lift Kingswood (1.3 miles).