Hillside Community First School
Verwood · Dorset
Register your CV with this school
Allow authorised recruitment staff at Hillside Community First School to consider your candidate profile for future relevant opportunities. Registering is not a job application, and nothing is shared with any other school.
Register your CV with this schoolJobs at Hillside Community First School
No live vacancies – get alerts for Hillside Community First School
We'll let you know as soon as Hillside Community First School posts a new role.
You can also register your CV with Hillside Community First School so its authorised recruitment staff can consider you for future roles.
Browse relevant job categories
About Hillside Community First School
Hillside Community First School is a primary academy in Verwood, Dorset. View current jobs, teaching vacancies and school support roles posted by the school.
INITIO LEARNING TRUST is a Multi-academy trust. The trust operates 19 member schools: 12 primary schools, 7 secondary schools. Local authorities: Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole | Dorset. Regions: South West. — from the INITIO LEARNING TRUST public record.
Hillside Community First School is a primary academy in Verwood, Dorset, part of INITIO LEARNING TRUST. It has no live vacancies on SchoolJobs right now.
Salary intelligence
We only publish school-level salary intelligence once at least 5 verified vacancies with advertised pay are available. Hillside Community First School currently has none on record, so no figures are shown here.
Working at Hillside Community First School
Hillside Community First School hasn't added their own "Working here" content yet. We only publish employer-supplied details — ethos, CPD, ECT support, benefits, facilities and safeguarding statements — from the school itself.
Claim this profile to add your school's own information.
School information
- Official name
- Hillside Community First School
- Address
- Hillside Road
- Postcode
- BH31 7HE
- Country
- England
- Local authority
- Dorset
- Parliamentary constituency
- North Dorset
- URN (official identifier)
- 146690
- Establishment number
- 2048
- School status
- Open
- Education phase
- Primary
- Age range
- 4–9 years
- Gender intake
- Mixed
- Religious character
- Does not apply
- Number of pupils
- 221
- As of November 2026
- Capacity
- 240
- School type
- Academy (converter)
- Governance
- Academy
- Academy trust
- INITIO LEARNING TRUST
- Local authority
- Dorset
- Headteacher
- Mr David Graves
- Ofsted inspection
- School remains Good · Inspected 11 May 2023Source: Ofsted management information · 30 Sep 2026 · Open Government Licence v3.0
- Official website
- www.hillsidefirstschool.org
- Telephone
- 01202822737
- Date opened
- 1 Jan 2019
Source: get-information-schools.service.gov.uk . Official data last refreshed November 2026.
Pupils at Hillside Community First School
| 2025/26 | This school | Dorset | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils | 221 | 46,354 | 8,355,420 |
| Eligible for free school meals | 15.8% | 20.3% | 26.5% |
| SEN support | 12.2% | 15.3% | 14.6% |
| Education, health and care plan (EHCP) | 4.1% | 6.6% | 5.9% |
| First language other than English (EAL) | 2.3% | 5.6% | 21.6% |
Local authority and England figures are calculated from the same DfE school-level files across state-funded schools.
Source: Department for Education, Schools, pupils and their characteristics and Special educational needs in England , academic year 2025/26. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Ofsted inspection history
4 published inspections for Hillside Community First School, including inspections of the school it replaced.
· Section 8 inspection of good and outstanding schools
Read report- Safeguarding is effective
- Yes
- Outcomes for ungraded and monitoring inspections
- School remains Good
Report published 27 Jun 2023
· Maintained Academy and School Short inspection
Read reportInspected as Hillside Community First School (URN 113683)
- Is safeguarding effective
- Yes
- Outcomes for S8 inspections that did not convert
- Yes - improving (good)
Report published 22 Apr 2016
· S5 Inspection
Read reportInspected as Hillside Community First School (URN 113683)
Overall effectiveness: Good
- Pupils' achievement
- Good
- Quality of teaching
- Good
- Early years provision
- Outstanding
- Leadership and management
- Good
- Behaviour and safety of pupils
- Outstanding
Report published 2 Feb 2011
· S5 Inspection
Read reportInspected as Hillside Community First School (URN 113683)
Overall effectiveness: Satisfactory
- Pupils' achievement
- Satisfactory
- Quality of teaching
- Satisfactory
- Early years provision
- Good
- Leadership and management
- Satisfactory
- Behaviour and safety of pupils
- Good
Report published 7 May 2008
Source: Ofsted, State-funded school inspections and outcomes: management information (files from 2005 to the latest monthly release; data checked 6 Nov 2026). Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Pupil absence at Hillside Community First School
| 2025/26 (autumn and spring term) | This school | Dorset | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Overall absence (sessions missed) | 3.6% | 5.4% | 5.1% |
| Persistent absence (pupils missing 10%+) | 7.3% | 12.8% | 13.2% |
Local authority and England figures are for state-funded primary schools in the same release.
Source: Department for Education, Pupil absence in schools in England , 2025/26 autumn and spring terms. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Pupil premium at Hillside Community First School
Deprivation pupil premium allocation for 2026 to 2027: £52,700 for 34 eligible pupils.
| Financial year 2026-27 | This school | Dorset | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils eligible | 15.4% | 21.0% | 27.7% |
| Allocation per pupil on roll | £238 | £276 | £370 |
Deprivation pupil premium only; service child and looked-after children premiums are not published per school. Local authority and England figures use the same file.
Source: Department for Education, Pupil premium allocations 2026 to 2027 (September 2026) . Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
School finances at Hillside Community First School
2024/25 academic year (academy accounts return) · Primary · 206 pupils. Excludes the trust's central costs.
| This school | Dorset average (per pupil · % of spend) | England average (per pupil · % of spend) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Total income | £1,268,000 £6,155 per pupil | £6,978 | £7,179 |
| Total spending | £1,211,000 £5,879 per pupil | £6,741 | £6,721 |
| Teaching staff | £590,000 £2,864 per pupil · 48.7% | £3,076 · 45.6% | £3,211 · 47.8% |
| Education support staff | £277,000 £1,345 per pupil · 22.9% | £1,329 · 19.7% | £1,313 · 19.5% |
| Supply and agency staff | £44,000 £214 per pupil · 3.6% | £323 · 4.8% | £203 · 3.0% |
| …of which agency supply | £19,000 £92 per pupil · 1.6% | £81 · 1.2% | £160 · 2.4% |
| In-year balance | £57,000 | ||
| Revenue reserve | £0 | ||
Previous year (2023/24): spending £5,689 per pupil, supply and agency £226 per pupil — spending up £190 per pupil on 2023/24.
Finance data is from the official return for that year and may not reflect the school's current position. Averages are pupil-weighted and use the same return, year and phase.
Full detail on DfE's Financial Benchmarking and Insights Tool · Local authority finance averages
Source: Department for Education, Academies Accounts Return 2024/25 via FBIT data sources, checked 6 Nov 2026. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Dorset council: term dates · school admissions (academies and independent schools may set their own dates — check with Hillside Community First School)
Where is Hillside Community First School?
Getting to Hillside Community First School
Whether a school works for you often comes down to the journey, not the mileage. Check how you would actually get here before the school day starts.
Hillside Community First School is part of INITIO LEARNING TRUST
Career advice for applying to Hillside Community First School
General guidance from SchoolJobs — not written or endorsed by Hillside Community First School.
Information we do not currently hold
SchoolJobs publishes only information it can evidence. The following is not available for Hillside Community First School.
- We have no verified vacancies for this school right now.
- We do not yet hold enough vacancy history to describe hiring patterns at this school.
- We publish salary ranges only from 5 or more verified vacancies. This school has fewer.
- Training and development information for this school is not published yet.
Data accuracy
We publish only what we can evidence — tell us if something here is wrong.
- Information source
- Get Information About Schools (DfE)
- Last updated
- 5 Nov 2026