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All-through school in Bristol, South Gloucestershire

Bradley Stoke Community School

Fiddlers Wood Lane, Bradley Stoke, Bristol, BS32 9BS

Ofsted Good · 2023 Sixth form Full
School website 01454868840

Ofsted

Goodas at 30 November 2023

Remained Good at its last ungraded inspection, on 30 November 2023.

Ofsted stopped awarding single-word overall grades in September 2024. This grade is 2 years old and will not be updated — the school keeps it until its next inspection, which will not produce a replacement grade.

Read the Ofsted report

GCSE results 2024/25

Attainment 8 score

50.6 England 47

The average grade across eight GCSEs, doubling English and maths. 50 is roughly a grade 5 average.

Grade 5+ in English & maths

56% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

70% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

4.2 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

19% England 40.8%

On Attainment 8 this school is in the upper half of state-funded secondaries in England.

Compared with the fifth of schools whose intake is least disadvantaged, which is where this one sits, it is in the lower half.

Progress 8 2023/24

0.34confidence interval 0.12 to 0.55

Taking that range into account, pupils made more progress than similar pupils nationally. DfE bands this as above average.

Progress 8 measures how far pupils moved between the end of primary and their GCSEs, which makes it far fairer than raw attainment. It is shown for 2023/24 because it could not be calculated for 2024/25: that year group would have sat their key stage 2 tests in summer 2020, when the tests were cancelled, so there is no starting point to measure from. Every school in England is affected, not just this one.

A levels 2024/25

Average grade per entry
C+
Average points per entry
34.2

England average 32.3

A level students
102

Pupils

Pupils on roll
1393
Places
1335
How full
Full — 1393 pupils against 1335 places
Girls / boys
698 / 695
Overall absence
7%

secondary schools average 8.6%

Persistently absent
15%

secondary schools average 23.9% — pupils missing 10% or more of sessions

Free school meals, last 6 years
12%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
27%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
4%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
12%

England 15%

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
98%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
89%

England 85.4%

Started an apprenticeship
6%

England 3.5%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
53%
No sustained destination
2%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
178

After sixth form

Went to university
56%

England 50%

In education, work or training
88%

England 84.3%

Started an apprenticeship
6%

England 6.5%

Students in the cohort
101

Going on to university 2021/22 leavers

Went to a top third university

19% England 20.9%

The third of higher education providers whose entrants hold the highest average entry qualifications. It is the closest thing in the public data to "did they get into a competitive university", and it separates schools far more sharply than the headline progression rate does.

Went on to a degree
61%

England 65.3%

Students in the cohort
117

These follow an earlier group of leavers than the figures above, and count anyone reaching higher education within two years rather than the term after leaving, so they are not directly comparable with them.

A destination counts only if it lasted at least six months, which is why these figures lag the exam results by a year, and why the university figures track leavers from 2021/22. Small cohorts move these percentages a long way — check the cohort size before reading much into a gap.

The neighbourhood around the school

Census 2021 figures for South Gloucestershire 009F, the statistical neighbourhood the school sits in — roughly 1,500 residents. It describes the area, not the pupils, who may travel in from further away.

Adults with a degree
48%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
5%

England 18.3%

Households owning their home
72%

England 62.7%

Households in social housing
1%

England 17%

Households with no car
7%

England 21.9%

Adults economically inactive
19%

England 39.9%

School details

Type
Academy converter
Phase
All-through
Ages
Ages 4–18
Gender
Mixed
Admissions
Non-selective
Religious character
None
Sixth form
Yes
Nursery
No
Boarding
Day school
Trust
THE OLYMPUS ACADEMY TRUST
Headteacher
Headteacher: Sophie Francis
Local authority
South Gloucestershire
Ward
Bradley Stoke South
Constituency
Filton and Bradley Stoke
URN
137753

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Nearest all-through schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Distance
Patchway Community SchoolAcademy converter No grade 37 1 mi
Abbeywood Community SchoolAcademy sponsor led No grade 46 1.7 mi
Winterbourne AcademyAcademy sponsor led Good 2022 52 1.8 mi
Tockington Manor SchoolOther independent school No grade 2.9 mi
Orchard School BristolAcademy sponsor led No grade 44.7 3 mi
Trinity AcademyFree schools Good 2024 52.1 3.5 mi
Bristol Free SchoolFree schools No grade 56.3 3.8 mi
Downend SchoolAcademy converter No grade 51 3.8 mi

Schools with a similar intake

State-funded all-through schools nationally whose share of disadvantaged pupils is closest to this school's. This is the fairest like-for-like comparison the published data supports.

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8
Beverley Grammar SchoolAcademy converter No grade 46.2
St Augustine's Catholic CollegeAcademy converter Good 2024 51.4
Cedars Upper SchoolAcademy converter Good 2023 48.5
Coombe Boys' SchoolAcademy converter Good 2023 54.8
Kings Langley SchoolAcademy converter Good 2024 48.6
Chichester Free SchoolFree schools Good 2024 44.9
St Benedict's Catholic SchoolAcademy converter No grade 49.8
Fortismere SchoolFoundation school Good 2022 58.1

Where these figures come from

  • School details, address and pupil numbers — Get Information About Schools, the DfE register, as at 14 August 2026.
  • Exam results — DfE performance tables, 2024/25, and 2023/24 for Progress 8.
  • Free school meals, EAL and SEN — school census, 2024/25.
  • Ofsted — Ofsted management information, latest inspections as at 30 June 2026.
  • Neighbourhood figures — ONS Census 2021, lower layer super output area.

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