Community special school

Yewstock School

Mixed · ages 2–19 · with sixth formDorset, South West · Sturminster Newton DT10 1EWSchool website
Pupils on roll
167of 149 places
Free school meals
46.8%
Year 11 cohort 2025
16
Ofsted
School remains Outstanding, 29 March 2023Read the Ofsted report
What the data says

Of the 19 pupils who finished Year 11 at Yewstock School in 2023, 0% stayed on in Yewstock School’s own sixth form (Dorset average 43%), 42% went to a further education college and none started an apprenticeship.

Every pupil in the 2023 cohort went on to a sustained destination, against 92% across England.

Almost every leaver found a sustained destination: only 0% were not in education, work or training six months on, against 6% nationally.

Almost nobody goes straight into an apprenticeship or a job: none took an apprenticeship and none went into work, against 3% and 3% across England.

Where pupils went after Year 11

Destinations of the 2023 Year 11 leavers, measured the following year: the share in a sustained place for at least two terms. Compared with all state-funded schools in Dorset and England.

Yewstock School
Dorset
England
School sixth formSixth form collegeFurther education collegeOther educationApprenticeshipEmploymentNo sustained destination
MeasureYewstock SchoolDorsetEngland
Pupils in the cohort193,781607,348
Any sustained destination100%94%92%
Stayed in education100%85%86%
— school sixth form0%43%34%
— sixth form college0%13%
— further education college42%39%37%
— other education58%3%2%
Apprenticeship0%5%3%
Employment0%4%3%
No sustained destination0%5%6%
Destination unknown0%2%3%

Where students went after sixth form

Destinations of students who finished 16–18 study in 2023, measured the following year.

No published destinations for sixth-form leavers yet.

GCSE results 2025

No published Key Stage 4 results for this school.

Where Yewstock School is

Other secondary schools in Dorset are shown for comparison; darker blue means more Year 11 leavers stayed in education. The last distance at which this school offered places is not yet on file — it comes from Dorset’s allocation statistics.

Other secondary schools in Dorset

Beaminster School

Voluntary controlled school · sixth form · 673 pupils

81% stayed in education · Attainment 8 47.0

Ferndown Upper School

Community school · sixth form · 1,134 pupils

88% stayed in education · Attainment 8 45.7

Sources: Department for Education school and college performance tables 2024/2025 (Key Stage 4 and 16–18 results, subject entries, destination measures for 2023 leavers); Get Information About Schools register as at 19 September 2026; Ofsted management information as at 31 August 2026. Small numbers are suppressed by DfE and shown as “—”. How to read these figures.