Schools in Dorset
Equal House covers 184 schools in Dorset, from Beaminster to Wareham. Find yours by name or postcode, add it once, and every drop-off and pick-up lands on the calendar everyone at home can see.
184
schools in Dorset
- Primary
- Middle deemed secondary
- Secondary
- All-through
- 16 plus
Every school in Dorset
All 184 of them, grouped by phase — check yours is here before you download.
Primary (119)
- All Saints Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School Sherborne
- Archbishop Wake Church of England Primary School Blandford Forum
- Beaminster St Mary's Academy Beaminster
- Beechcroft St Paul's CofE Primary School Weymouth
- Bere Regis Primary and Preschool Wareham
- Bincombe Valley Primary School Weymouth
- Blandford St Mary Church of England Primary School Blandford Forum
- Bovington Academy Wareham
- Bridport Primary School Bridport
- Bridport, St Mary's Church of England Primary School Bridport
- Broadmayne First School Dorchester
- Broadwindsor Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School Beaminster
- Buckland Newton Church of England Primary School Dorchester
- Burton Bradstock Church of England Voluntary Controlled School Bridport
- Cerne Abbas CofE VC First School Dorchester
- Charmouth Primary School Bridport
- Cheselbourne Village School DORCHESTER
- Chickerell Primary Academy Weymouth
- Colehill First School Wimborne
- Conifers Primary School Weymouth
- Corfe Castle Church of England Primary School Wareham
- Cranborne Church of England First School Wimborne
- Damers First School Dorchester
- Downlands Community School Blandford Forum
- Dunbury Church of England Academy Winterborne Whitechurch
- Durweston Church of England Primary School Blandford Forum
- Ferndown First School Ferndown
- Frome Valley CofE First School Dorchester
- Gillingham Primary School Gillingham
- Hampreston Church of England Voluntary Aided First School Wimborne
- Hayeswood First School Wimborne
- Hazelbury Bryan Primary School Sturminster Newton
- Henbury View First School Wimborne
- Hillside Community First School Verwood
- Holy Trinity Church of England VC Primary School & Community Nursery Weymouth
- Loders CofE Primary Academy Bridport
- Lulworth and Winfrith CofE Primary School Wareham
- Lytchett Matravers Primary School Poole
- Maiden Newton, Greenford Church of England Primary School Dorchester
- Manor Park Church of England First School Dorchester
- Marshwood CofE Primary Academy Bridport
- Milborne St Andrew First School Blandford Forum
- Milldown CofE Academy Blandford Forum
- Milton-on-Stour Church of England Primary School Gillingham
- Motcombe CofE Primary School Shaftesbury
- Oakhurst Community First School Ferndown
- Pamphill Church of England First School Wimborne
- Parley First School Ferndown
- Parrett and Axe Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School Beaminster
- Piddle Valley Church of England First School Dorchester
- Pimperne Church of England VC Primary School Blandford Forum
- Portesham Church of England Primary School Weymouth
- Powerstock Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School Bridport
- Puddletown Church of England First School Dorchester
- Radipole Primary School Weymouth
- Rushcombe First School Wimborne
- Salway Ash Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School Bridport
- Sandford St Martin's Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School Wareham
- Shaftesbury Church of England Primary School Shaftesbury
- Sherborne Abbey Church of England Primary School Sherborne
- Sherborne Primary School Sherborne
- Shillingstone Church of England Primary School Blandford Forum
- Sixpenny Handley First School and Nursery Salisbury
- Southill Primary School Weymouth
- Spetisbury CofE Primary School Blandford Forum
- St Andrew's Church of England Primary School Sherborne
- St Andrew's Church of England Primary School Weymouth
- St Andrew's Church of England Primary School Shaftesbury
- St Augustine's Catholic Primary School, Weymouth Weymouth
- St Catherine's Roman Catholic School Bridport
- St George's Church of England Primary School, Langton Matravers Swanage
- St George's Church of England School, Bourton Gillingham
- St George's Foundation Primary School Portland
- St Gregory's Church of England Primary School, Marnhull Sturminster Newton
- St Ives Primary & Nursery School Ringwood
- St James Church of England First School Wimborne
- St James' Church of England First School and Nursery, Alderholt Fordingbridge
- St John's Church of England First School, Wimborne Wimborne
- St John's Church of England Primary School Weymouth
- St Mary & St Joseph's Catholic Primary School Wareham
- St Mary the Virgin Church of England Primary School Gillingham
- St Mary's Catholic First School, Dorchester Dorchester
- St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Marnhull Sturminster Newton
- St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Swanage Swanage
- St Mary's Church of England First School, Charminster Dorchester
- St Mary's Church of England Primary School, Bradford Abbas Sherborne
- St Mary's CofE First School & Nursery Ferndown
- St Michael's CofE Primary School, Lyme Regis Lyme Regis
- St Nicholas and St Laurence Church of England Primary School Weymouth
- St Nicholas Church of England Primary School, Child Okeford Blandford Forum
- Stalbridge Church of England Primary School Stalbridge
- Sticklands Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School Dorchester
- Stoborough Church of England Primary School Wareham
- Stower Provost Community School Gillingham
- Sturminster Marshall First School Wimborne
- Swanage Primary School Swanage
- Swanage St Mark's Church of England Primary School Swanage
- Symondsbury Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School Bridport
- The Abbey CofE VA Primary School, Shaftesbury Shaftesbury
- The Prince of Wales School Dorchester
- Thorncombe, St Mary's Church of England Primary Academy Thorncombe
- Thorner's Church of England School, Litton Cheney Dorchester
- Thornford CofE Primary School Sherborne
- Three Legged Cross First and Nursery School Wimborne
- Trent Young's CofE Primary School Sherborne
- Trinity Church of England First School Verwood
- Upton Infant School Poole
- Upton Junior School Poole
- Verwood Church of England First School Verwood
- Wareham St Mary Church of England Primary School Wareham
- William Barnes Primary School Sturminster Newton
- Wimborne First School and Nursery Wimborne
- Wimborne St Giles Church of England First School and Nursery Wimborne
- Winterbourne Valley Church of England Aided First School Dorchester
- Witchampton Church of England First School Wimborne
- Wool Church of England Primary School Wareham
- Wyke Primary School Gillingham
- Wyke Regis Church of England Junior School Weymouth
- Wyke Regis Infant School and Nursery Weymouth
Middle deemed secondary (10)
- Allenbourn Middle School Wimborne
- Cranborne Middle School Wimborne
- Dorchester Middle School Dorchester
- Emmanuel Church of England Middle School Verwood
- Ferndown Middle School Ferndown
- Lockyer's Middle School Wimborne
- St Mary's Church of England Middle School, Puddletown Dorchester
- St Michael's Church of England Middle School, Colehill Wimborne
- St Osmund's Church of England Middle School Dorchester
- West Moors Middle School Ferndown
Secondary (18)
- All Saints' Church of England Academy Weymouth
- Beaminster School Beaminster
- Budmouth Academy Weymouth Weymouth
- Dorset Studio School Dorchester
- Ferndown Upper School Ferndown
- Gillingham School Gillingham
- Lytchett Minster School Poole
- Queen Elizabeth's School Wimborne
- Shaftesbury School Shaftesbury
- Sturminster Newton High School Sturminster Newton
- The Blandford School Blandford Forum
- The Gryphon School Sherborne
- The Purbeck School Wareham
- The Sir John Colfox Academy Bridport
- The Swanage School Swanage
- The Thomas Hardye School Dorchester
- The Woodroffe School Lyme Regis
- Wey Valley Academy Weymouth
All-through (1)
- Atlantic Academy Portland Portland
16 plus (1)
- Coastland College Weymouth
Other schools (35)
- Arbour House School
- Aurora Beeches School Wimborne
- Aurora Boveridge College Wimborne
- Beaucroft Foundation School Wimborne
- Bryanston School Blandford Forum
- Castle Court School
- Clayesmore School Blandford Forum
- Dorchester Learning Centre Dorchester
- Dumpton School Wimborne
- Employ My Ability (EMA) Ltd Dorchester
- Graduately Developing Futures Dorset
- Hanford School Blandford Forum
- Harbour School Dorset
- Harbour Vale School Sherborne
- Kingfisher School Weymouth
- Leweston School Sherborne
- Millie College Holton Heath
- Milton Abbey School Blandford Forum
- Mountjoy School Beaminster
- Port Regis Preparatory School Shaftesbury
- Ringwood Waldorf School Ringwood
- Sheiling College Ringwood, Hants
- Sheiling School Ringwood
- Sherborne Preparatory School Sherborne
- Sherborne School Sherborne
- Sherborne School for Girls Sherborne
- Sunninghill Preparatory School Dorchester
- The Compass Weymouth
- The Forum Centre Blandford Forum
- The Forum School Blandford Forum
- The Luccombe Hub Blandford Forum
- Westfield Arts College Weymouth
- Wyvern Academy Weymouth
- Yarrells Preparatory School Poole
- Yewstock School Sturminster Newton
Term dates and INSET days in Dorset
Dorset publishes term dates for the schools it maintains. Academies, free schools and voluntary-aided schools set their own term dates, so they often differ from the council’s — and INSET days are usually picked school by school on top of that. So the dates that matter to your family are the ones on your school’s letter, not the published calendar.
Equal House doesn’t guess them. You enter your school’s term start and end once and add the closures it has published — half term, bank holidays, INSET days — and the app fills in every school day between, skipping the days off. Add a closure later and the runs it covers come off the calendar.
Add your Dorset school in under a minute
Search by name or postcode
Start typing in Equal House — it matches every school in Dorset and the rest of the UK.
Pick your school
Tap yours to link it. Siblings at the same school share one run automatically.
Set days, times & kit
Drop-off and pick-up windows, plus each child’s uniform, PE and swimming days.
See the whole term
Every run lands on the calendar the whole household shares, skipping the closures you add.
Questions parents in Dorset ask
Does Equal House know Dorset term dates and INSET days?
No — and it doesn't guess. Academies, free schools and voluntary-aided schools set their own term dates, so they often differ from the council’s, and INSET days are usually picked school by school. You enter your school's term start and end once, add the closures it has published (half term, bank holidays, INSET days), and Equal House fills in every school day between them and skips the rest.
Which Dorset schools are covered?
All 184 in Dorset — every school in our directory for the area is listed on this page, and searchable in the app by name or postcode.
Do both parents see the school run?
Yes. Drop-offs and pick-ups land on the household calendar everyone in the family can see, so the week is something you divide up together rather than something one person keeps in their head. The entries are the household’s, not one person’s — Equal House doesn’t decide who drives.
What about uniform, PE and swimming days?
Each child gets an all-day item on the days that need something specific — PE kit, swimming kit, non-uniform — colour-coded to that child, so the whole household can see what needs to be in the bag.
Is it free?
Equal House is free with a rolling three-day planning horizon, so you can set your school up and see the next few days straight away. Seeing the whole term ahead is part of Pro, at £2.99 a month or £29.90 a year for the whole household.
Add your Dorset school to the family calendar
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