School report
Dumpton School
England · Co-educational · Ages 2–13 · Day only · 343 pupils
Notes
Dumpton School merged into the Canford Group of Schools on 1 January 2026. The financial figures shown here are its own filed accounts to 31 July 2025 (charity 306222), so they reflect the school on a standalone basis, before the merger — from 2026 its finances are expected to be reported at Canford group level. The FY2025 result was a deficit, largely reflecting VAT on fees from January 2025, the loss of business-rates relief, and one-off staff termination costs.
The catchment demographics shown are modelled on the drive-time catchment of Canford School, 2.98 km away — at that distance the 30- and 60-minute driving catchments are near-identical. They are a close approximation pending Dumpton's own isochrone; being slightly further from the Bournemouth–Poole conurbation, Dumpton's true catchment is likely a touch smaller and marginally less affluent.
At a glance
Latest income
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ScholarInspection
A colour summarising the school's most recent inspection outcome. Different inspectorates (ISI, Ofsted, and the Scottish and Welsh bodies) use different systems, so results from different inspectorates aren't directly comparable.Green
ISI · 2025-03-18
Roll (12 mo)
PrefectSetting
Setting
Self-contained 26-acre country prep estate set in Deans Grove near Wimborne, surrounded by Dorset farmland.
School group
School group
Dumpton School is part of the Canford Group of Schools.
Dumpton joined the Canford Group in January 2026; the figures shown are its own standalone accounts, filed before the merger (see the note above).
Group membership per the group’s own published list (Canford Group of Schools). Financial figures are filed per the note above, not consolidated across the whole group.
Inspection & safeguarding
Latest outcome: all met
- Regulator
- ISI
- Band
- Green
- Report date
- 2025-03-18
- Report age
- 1.3 years
Inspectorates use different scales, so bands are shown only within their own regime, never cross-mapped.
Fees
Fees
What Dumpton School publishes for 2026/27 — the advertised price, before any bursary or scholarship.
| Day | Boarding | |
|---|---|---|
| Prep | £23,367 /yr ≈ £7,789/term | — |
Termly figures are the annual fee ÷ 3. Source: the school's fee page ↗ — Prep Years 3-8 day fee (Year 6 anchor), incl VAT 2026/27; Pre-Prep GBP4,357/term; registration GBP120, deposit GBP500; day school, no boarding.
Fee history
Day fees have risen +41.8% since 2019/20 — from £16,482 to £23,367 in 2026/27. Latest figure includes VAT. See the full six-year trend below.
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Pupil body
The current roll at a glance.
183 boys · 155 girls · 338 on roll
Source: Department for Education, Schools, Pupils and their Characteristics 2025/26 (England).
Age profile
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Where leavers go
Senior schools this prep sends its pupils to.
Leavers have gone on to 14 named senior schools.
Including Canford School, Bryanston School, Local Grammar 11+ and more.
Year 8/13+ · Year 6/11+ · latest 2025
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Recruitment & staffing
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Where these figures come from, and how complete they are.
- Financial source
- Charity Commission (England & Wales)
- Detail level
- Parsed from full accounts
- Latest accounts
- 2025-07-31
- Years on record
- 5
- Accounts age
- 10 months
- Pupil numbers
- 343 (inspection:ISI)
- Components
- Income components reconcile
- Entity scope
- This school
Pupil–teacher ratio: not published — independent schools aren’t in the DfE workforce census, and filed accounts don’t separate teaching staff.
Capital trend: only one year of capital spend is on record, so a multi-year under-investment signal can’t be computed yet.
Computed 2026-06-20 · pipeline ct-derived-1.0.0. Indicators, not verdicts — each is traceable to its source.
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