Shaftesbury School Overview

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

Shaftesbury School is a mixed gender school that caters to students aged from 11 to 18 years old and it has a Church of England religious affiliation

Currently the school is undersubscribed as it has an official capacity of 1283 students but currently only enrols 868 pupils across all class years. This can generally mean that all applications to this school stand a much stronger chance of being accepted.

Shaftesbury School students range across many different ethnicities with White British being the predominant ethnicity, accounting for 85.9% of all current students. English as a 1st language accounts for 6.8% of students at the school.

27.6% of all students at the school qualify for free school meals and 0% of Shaftesbury School pupils are classed as SEN students who have a range of special educational needs.

Student Ethnicities