State secondary schools in Bristol, City of
24 schools · South West · 2024/25 Department for Education figures
Bristol, City of has 24 state secondaries, 15 of them with sixth forms. 84% of families got their first choice last year, about the national picture. Results run from 17.7% to 68.7% passing English and maths, a spread of 51 points, with a middle school at 46.2%, almost exactly England's 45.4%.
Of those Ofsted has graded, 16 Good, 2 Inadequate. 6 schools carry no overall grade at all — either inspected since Ofsted stopped issuing one in September 2024, or never inspected.
Bristol, City of against England
State-funded schools, 2024/25
Getting a place
2026/27 secondary admissions round, across Bristol, City of
84%
Got their first choiceof those who applied
England 84%
96.7%
Got one of their threefirst, second or third
0%
Got no offer at allfrom any preference
28%
Appeals upheld43 of 153 heard
These are figures for Bristol, City of as a whole. A popular school can be much harder to get into than the average suggests, and the criteria that decide it are set by each school's own admission authority rather than centrally. How applying works
How much the choice matters here
Across Bristol, City of's 22 schools, the share passing English and maths runs from 18% to 69%. That is a spread of 51 percentage points, about typical.
The typical council spans about 48 points. Where schools are close together the school a child gets matters less; where they are far apart it matters a great deal. The widest spreads are all selective areas, where grammar schools sit at one end and everything else at the other.
Bristol, City of schools, subject by subject
The share reaching grade 4 or above, among schools entering at least 20 pupils. Which pupils take a subject differs a lot between schools, so read this as what happened rather than as a ranking of teaching.
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Every school in Bristol, City of
Schools in neighbouring authorities are not in this list, because admissions run per authority. See bordering areas.
13 of 24 have no spare places. Sort the list, or narrow it first.
- Ashton Park School Bristol · Good.
- Eng & maths
- 42%
- Attainment 8
- 45.8
- Absence
- 26%
- Bedminster Down School Bristol · Inspected, after Ofsted stopped issuing a single overall grade.
- Eng & maths
- 39%
- Attainment 8
- 41.7
- Absence
- 36%
- Blaise High School Bristol · Good.
- Eng & maths
- 51%
- Attainment 8
- 45
- Absence
- 26%
- Bridge Learning Campus Bristol · Inspected under the current report card, which gives no overall grade.
- Eng & maths
- 23%
- Attainment 8
- 34.6
- Absence
- 29%
- Bristol Brunel Academy Bristol · Good. · no spare places
- Eng & maths
- 41%
- Attainment 8
- 43.6
- Absence
- 31%
- Bristol Cathedral Choir School Bristol · Good. · no spare places
- Eng & maths
- 60%
- Attainment 8
- 54.6
- Absence
- 17%
- Bristol Free School Bristol · Inspected under the current report card, which gives no overall grade. · no spare places
- Eng & maths
- 66%
- Attainment 8
- 56.3
- Absence
- 12%
- Bristol Metropolitan Academy Bristol · Inspected under the current report card, which gives no overall grade. · no spare places
- Eng & maths
- 40%
- Attainment 8
- 46.9
- Absence
- 29%
- Cotham School Bristol · Good.
- Eng & maths
- 54%
- Attainment 8
- 51.8
- Absence
- 23%
- E-Act Merchants' Academy Bristol · Inadequate.
- Eng & maths
- 18%
- Attainment 8
- 29.5
- Absence
- 39%
- E-Act Montpelier High School Bristol · Inadequate.
- Eng & maths
- 61%
- Attainment 8
- 57.3
- Absence
- 21%
- Fairfield High School Bristol · Good. · no spare places
- Eng & maths
- 46%
- Attainment 8
- 48.9
- Absence
- 35%
- Oasis Academy Brightstowe Bristol · Inspected, after Ofsted stopped issuing a single overall grade.
- Eng & maths
- 27%
- Attainment 8
- 38.2
- Absence
- 36%
- Oasis Academy Brislington Bristol · Inspected under the current report card, which gives no overall grade. · no spare places
- Eng & maths
- 41%
- Attainment 8
- 44.3
- Absence
- 25%
- Oasis Academy Daventry Road Bristol · No inspection outcome published.
- Eng & maths
- —
- Attainment 8
- —
- Absence
- 44%
- Oasis Academy John Williams Bristol · Good. · no spare places
- Eng & maths
- 39%
- Attainment 8
- 46.9
- Absence
- 30%
- Oasis Academy Temple Quarter Bristol · Inspected under the current report card, which gives no overall grade.
- Eng & maths
- —
- Attainment 8
- —
- Absence
- 17%
- Orchard School Bristol Bristol · Good. · no spare places
- Eng & maths
- 49%
- Attainment 8
- 44.7
- Absence
- 25%
- Redland Green School Bristol · Good. · no spare places
- Eng & maths
- 69%
- Attainment 8
- 59
- Absence
- 15%
- St Bede's Catholic College Bristol · Inspected under the current report card, which gives no overall grade. · no spare places
- Eng & maths
- 65%
- Attainment 8
- 57.1
- Absence
- 15%
- St Bernadette Catholic Secondary School Bristol · Good. · no spare places
- Eng & maths
- 38%
- Attainment 8
- 44.5
- Absence
- 26%
- St Mary Redcliffe and Temple School Bristol · Inspected, after Ofsted stopped issuing a single overall grade. · no spare places
- Eng & maths
- 62%
- Attainment 8
- 54.2
- Absence
- 19%
- The City Academy Bristol Bristol · Good.
- Eng & maths
- 30%
- Attainment 8
- 38.5
- Absence
- 32%
- Trinity Academy Bristol · Good. · no spare places
- Eng & maths
- 58%
- Attainment 8
- 52.1
- Absence
- 24%
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Sixth form · Key stage 5·2024/25
A levels in Bristol, City of
8 of Bristol, City of's 15 sixth forms publish A level results. Ranked on the share reaching AAB or better in at least two of the subjects universities name, which is the measure the steepest entry requirements are written in.
- Bristol Free School Bristol B- 30%
- Redland Green School Bristol C 28%
- Cotham School Bristol C- 24%
- Bristol Cathedral Choir School Bristol B- 23%
- St Mary Redcliffe and Temple School Bristol C+ 16%
- E-Act Montpelier High School Bristol C 16%
- St Bede's Catholic College Bristol C+ 15%
- Ashton Park School Bristol E+ 8%
A level results only. A sixth form running mostly BTECs and other applied courses will show a dash here and can still be the right one — those are graded on their own scale, where a distinction and an A grade carry the same points and mean different things.
Bordering Bristol, City of
Near a boundary, schools on both sides are usually in reach. Whether a child can apply is set by each school's admission criteria, not by the border.
What these mean
- Attainment 8
- The average pupil's total score across eight GCSE-equivalent subjects, with English and maths counting double. It is scored out of 90. A score of 50 is roughly equivalent to achieving a grade 5 across eight subjects.
- Grades 4 and 5
- GCSEs are graded from 9 down to 1. Grade 4 is a standard pass and broadly corresponds to the old grade C; grade 5 is what the government calls a strong pass. Grade 7 is broadly equivalent to an old grade A.
- Persistent absence
- The share of pupils who miss at least 10% of their possible sessions during the school year. This includes both authorised and unauthorised absence, so illness and other authorised reasons are included. Persistent absence has remained substantially higher than its pre-pandemic level.
- First preference
- The share of families who were offered the school they ranked first on their application, on national offer day in March. This figure is calculated across the relevant schools or admissions authority, so a high overall figure does not necessarily mean that every individual school is easy to get into.
- Spare places
- The amount of available capacity a school has compared with the number of pupils on roll. This is different from oversubscription: spare places measure whether a school has capacity, whereas oversubscription describes demand for places exceeding the number available. A school with no spare places may be popular, but a small school can also be full without receiving a large number of applications.
- Average A-level grade
- The average grade achieved across students' A-level entries. This is different from measures such as the proportion achieving AAB or better in two or more facilitating subjects, which are sometimes used to indicate higher attainment and university-entry performance.