Mangotsfield School

Academy · ages 11–16 · no sixth form

Above average on 1 of the four headline measures, below on 1 — 14th of 16 for average grade in South Gloucestershire.

Bristol · South Gloucestershire · one of 16 state secondaries

Summary

Mangotsfield School sits 14th of 16 state secondaries in South Gloucestershire for average GCSE grade. 56% of its pupils passed both English and maths, against 61.6% across South Gloucestershire. 34.8% reached the stronger grade 5 in both. Subject by subject it is furthest clear of South Gloucestershire in food technology, sat by 29% of the year,, and furthest behind in geography and maths. Ofsted: Inspected in June 2026 under the current report card, which grades 7 areas separately and gives no overall word.

It is an academy of 1,191 pupils, taking ages 11 to 16. 24.1% of its pupils are eligible for free school meals, and 11.1% are on SEN support with a further 4.3% holding an education, health and care plan. 32.9% were entered for the full EBacc, more than the 25% entered across South Gloucestershire, which is a choice about how broad a curriculum to push, and 10.1% took the separate sciences rather than combined. 23.4% of pupils missed a tenth of school or more, about the same as South Gloucestershire, and 70.7% of its leavers went on to further education.

Subject comparisons are measured at grade 4 or above against South Gloucestershire, and count as ahead or behind only where the gap is wider than the year-to-year swing that entry group would produce.

The school·South Gloucestershire

Inspection

Graded by area

Last inspected June 2026

Achievement: Needs attention
Attendance and behaviour: Needs attention
Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard
Inclusion: Expected standard
Leadership and management: Expected standard
Personal development: Expected standard
Safeguarding: Met

June 2026 Report card inspection Graded by area
March 2022 Full inspection Good

Ofsted’s current report card grades each area separately and gives no overall word.

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Attendance

23% of pupils missed a tenth of school or more, against 22% across South Gloucestershire and 21% nationally. The comparators are the median secondary school, not an average.

GCSE · Key stage 4·2024/25

Attainment

56%

Passed English & maths grade 4+, an old grade C

in line with average

South Gloucestershire 62% · England 65%

35%

Strong pass in both grade 5+, a strong pass

below average

South Gloucestershire 43% · England 45%

41.3

Average grade across 8 Attainment 8, out of 90

in line with average

South Gloucestershire 42.9 · England 46.1

33%

Entered for the EBacc the academic core of subjects

above average

South Gloucestershire 25% · England 41%

After Year 11

71% stayed in education, 14% started an apprenticeship (2022/23 leavers)

GCSE results by subject

2024/25 · share reaching grade 4 or above · a standard pass, the old grade C

this school South Gloucestershire England at grade 4

Subject Share at grade 4 or above Since 2021/22

Every bar is on the same 0–100% scale, so subjects can be read against each other as well as against the county and England. A dash means the figure does not exist rather than being zero. The county and England lines cover state-funded schools only, the same schools you can browse here, because independent schools sit outside the Department for Education's subject release and outside this site.

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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.
The EBacc: A combination of subjects rather than a qualification in its own right: English, Maths, the Sciences, a Language, and History or Geography. The figure shows the share of pupils entered for all the EBacc subject areas, so it gives an indication of how widely a school enters pupils for this particular combination of subjects.
Progress 8: A measure of how much progress pupils make between the end of primary school and the end of GCSE, rather than simply what grades they achieve. It takes pupils' prior attainment into account, making it useful for comparing schools with different intakes. Progress 8 is not published for 2024/25 because the pupils concerned did not have Key Stage 2 tests that can be used as the normal starting point.
Percentage points: The gap between two percentages. A subject going from 30% to 36% has risen six percentage points, though it has risen by a fifth. We write "pp" to keep the two apart.
Why some subjects say nothing: A year group is small. Where a gap is no bigger than the swing a different intake would produce, we say the subjects are level rather than dressing chance as a finding. Two kinds of subject carry no share at all: a vocational award has no 9-to-1 grade to report, and some qualifications are not published on the 9-to-1 scale for a given year group, most often community languages sat outside the school's own timetable.
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.
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.

School details

Rodway Hill
Mangotsfield
Bristol
BS16 9LH

01454 862700 mangotsfieldschool.org.uk

Head: Mrs Hetty Blackmore
Trust: Pathway Trust
Pupils: 1,191 of 1,404 places
Spare places: 18%
Free school meals: 24%
SEND: 11% on SEN support, 4% with an EHC plan
Separate sciences: 10% of the year
Progress 8: Not published · last -0.3 in 2023/24

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