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Sherborne Preparatory School: safeguarding context
The safeguarding context around Sherborne Preparatory School: what the public record says about the streets, routes and roads children use to reach it, and what that means for the school's policy. This page describes the surroundings. It does not rate the school.
The register entry
- Unique reference number
- 113917
- Type
- Other independent school
- Type group
- Independent schools
- Status
- Open
- Phase
- Not applicable
- Age range
- 3 to 14
- Gender
- Mixed
- Religious character
- None
- Pupils on roll
- 204
- UK provider reference number
- 10018160
- Postcode
- DT9 3NY
- Country
- England
- Register last checked
- 23 September 2026
- Website
- https://www.sherborneprep.group/
Local authority: Dorset (184 open schools).
About this school's place in the register
Sherborne Preparatory School is listed in the Department for Education's register of schools, Get Information About Schools, under unique reference number 113917. The register records it as a other independent school, in the group the Department calls independent schools. Its UK provider reference number is 10018160. The register was last checked on 23 September 2026.
The statutory age range is 3 to 14, which is the span of ages the school is registered to admit; the routes children take to the gate, and how independently they travel, follow from it. The intake is recorded as mixed. At the last school census 204 pupils were on roll. The register holds a website address for the school, linked below.
The school is in England, at postcode DT9 3NY. Its grid reference is easting 363592, northing 116555, which is latitude 50.9473 and longitude -2.5196. That point is the centre of everything the safeguarding context report measures: the streets within a short walk, the routes to the nearest transport and shops, the roads at the gate, and the neighbourhood statistics that surround it.
Sherborne Preparatory School sits in the Dorset local authority area, which has 184 open establishments in the register. The local authority is the body that publishes the local safeguarding partnership arrangements, the threshold document and the early help offer that a school's child protection policy refers to, so the same authority context applies to every school in Dorset.
The nearest schools in the register to Sherborne Preparatory School are Sherborne School (about 140 metres away), Sherborne School for Girls (about 580 metres away), Harbour Vale School (about 850 metres away), Sherborne Primary School (about 980 metres away) and Sherborne Abbey Church of England Primary School (1.2 km away). Distances are straight lines between grid references, not walking routes. Several schools within walking distance of each other share the same streets, crossings, parks and shops, so the context described for one usually applies to its neighbours too.
What the report for Sherborne Preparatory School contains
An annual report, written for the Designated Safeguarding Lead, that reads the public record for the environment around this school and says what it means in the language of Keeping Children Safe in Education and contextual safeguarding. Each chapter is mapped to the policy paragraph, the governors' annual report or the inspection question it evidences. The recorded picture at the gate comes from UK Crime Statistics, our sister service; the rest is evidence a crime map does not carry.
- The recorded picture at the gate. Police-recorded incidents within a short walk, from UK Crime Statistics, described as the streets a child crosses rather than as a score, and turned into the context paragraph the policy asks for.
- Exploitation indicators. The public signals of criminal and sexual exploitation in the area, and what a DSL can and cannot read into them.
- Places and routes where risk sits. Parks, shops, transport stops and underpasses on the way in, drawn from the data rather than from reputation.
- Road danger at the gate. Collisions involving pedestrians and cyclists on the surrounding roads, with what a School Street request needs.
- Air quality and catchment deprivation. The neighbourhood statistics that shape the context, printed with their limits.
- Policy paragraph, governor paragraph and inspector questions. Ready to paste, answered from the findings above.
With the report comes the insight dashboard for Sherborne Preparatory School: the trend by month, every category, the streets that recur and the comparison with Dorset and the national picture, live for the year.
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Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Get Information about Schools, Department for Education.