Ferndown Upper School Overview

Ferndown Upper School is a secondary & 6th form school located in Ferndown and reports to the local authority of Dorset.

Ferndown Upper School is a mixed gender school that caters to students aged from 13 to 19 years old and it has no religious affiliations

Currently the school is undersubscribed as it has an official capacity of 1309 students but currently only enrols 1161 pupils across all class years. This can generally mean that all applications to this school stand a much stronger chance of being accepted.

Ferndown Upper School students range across many different ethnicities with White British being the predominant ethnicity, accounting for 86.6% of all current students. English as a 1st language accounts for 6.4% of students at the school.

23.7% of all students at the school qualify for free school meals and 0% of Ferndown Upper School pupils are classed as SEN students who have a range of special educational needs.

Student Ethnicities