School report
Dumpton School
England · Co-educational · 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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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
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.
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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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.
Curriculum & activities
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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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