The Bay Church of England School

Ofsted

▲Good (2023) — Rated under the pre-September 2024 inspection system

This school has not yet been inspected under the report-card system introduced in November 2025. When it is, this section will show a grade for each area — Ofsted says the new grades do not map onto the old ones, so we do not predict them.

Inspected 21 February 2023, published 26 April 2023. Read the full Ofsted report

England has three coexisting inspection systems — how we translate them into one signal.

Exam results

Progress 8 is not published nationally for 2024/25 and 2025/26 while KS2 baselines are missing (no SATs in 2020/21). It returns from 2026/27.

“Not published (small cohort)” means the DfE suppressed the figure to protect small cohorts — it is not a zero.

Will my child get in?

Roughly one first choice per place — 1 first-choice application per place (primary entry, Sept 2026 entry)

Usually has places available — 0.72 first-choice applications per place (secondary entry, Sept 2026 entry)

First-choice demand varies year to year, and the school’s admission criteria — not demand — decide who is offered a place. Use this as a rough signal, never a prediction.

Nearby alternatives

• ✕Mayfield School 19.3 km · Inadequate (2022) · previous system
• ▲Chichester Free School 33.1 km · Good (2024) · previous system
• ▲St Mark's Church of England School 34.2 km · Good (2022) · previous system
• ▲St Peter's Catholic Comprehensive School 45.3 km · Good (2023) · previous system
• ●The Westgate School 47.3 km · Outstanding (2023) · previous system
• ▲Livingstone Academy Bournemouth 50.6 km · Good (2024) · previous system

Straight-line distance — not travel time, and not a catchment. Same phase, open schools only.