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All-through school in Bristol, Bristol, City of

Bridge Learning Campus

William Jessop Way, Bristol, BS13 0RL

School website 01173534472
Ofsted Report card January 2026
Attainment 8 34.6 in the bottom 10% nationally
Chance of a place 100% of first choices offered
Local deprivation 1/10 more deprived

Ofsted

Report card6 January 2026

Ofsted report card published, on 6 January 2026.

The report card grades separate areas of the school's work. Ofsted does not combine them into one overall judgement.

Read the Ofsted report

Current published outcome
Report card — no overall grade
Last overall grade in this dataset
Not stored — this dataset keeps the latest inspection, which has no overall grade
Days since inspection
269 days
Framework era
Current framework (no overall grade)

These four fields describe the latest published inspection on this record. The dataset does not keep a previous inspection row, so a school inspected under the current framework will usually have no overall grade to show as “prior”.

Safeguarding
Met
Inclusion
Needs attention
Curriculum and teaching
Needs attention
Achievement
Needs attention
Attendance and behaviour
Needs attention
Personal development and wellbeing
Needs attention
Early years
Strong standard
Leadership and governance
Needs attention

The report-card scale is Exceptional, Strong standard, Expected standard, Needs attention and Urgent improvement. Safeguarding is graded Met or Not met. These are separate judgements, not a league table or an overall score. How Ofsted's current grades work.

GCSE results 2024/25

Attainment 8 score

34.6 England 47

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

Grade 5+ in English & maths

23% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

45% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

2.9 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

7% England 40.8%

On Attainment 8 this school is in the bottom 10% of state-funded secondaries in England.

Compared with the fifth of schools whose intake is most disadvantaged, which is where this one sits, it is in the bottom quarter.

Progress 8 2023/24

-0.75confidence interval -1.03 to -0.48

Taking that range into account, pupils made less progress than similar pupils nationally. DfE bands this as well below 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.

Getting a place 2026/27 entry

About as many first choices as places. Of the 78 families who named this school as their first choice, 100% were offered a place.

Places offered
83

for entry into Year 7

Named it first choice
78
First choices per place
0.94

England average 1.00

First choices offered a place
100%

England 88.5%

First preferences per place are up 195% on three years ago.

These are offers made on national offer day for 2026/27 entry, from the local authority's co-ordinated admissions round. They exclude later movement — waiting lists, appeals and in-year admissions — so a school shown as oversubscribed may still have places by September.

Oversubscription measures popularity, not quality, and the two are not the same thing: a school can be heavily oversubscribed because of its intake, its faith designation or simply because the nearest alternative is further away. We do not publish catchment maps, because catchments are not published: each admissions authority applies its own criteria afresh every year, and the distance that got a child in last year is not a boundary. Read the school's own admissions arrangements for the rules that will actually apply.

Pupils

Pupils on roll
1202
Places
1395
How full
86% full — 1202 of 1395 places taken
Girls / boys
592 / 610
Overall absence
11%

secondary schools average 8.6%

Persistently absent
32%

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

Free school meals, last 6 years
58%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
18%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
3%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
23%

England 15%

School funding 2025-26 financial year

Not found for this URN in the 2025-26 release.

Evidence found
Not found for this URN in the 2025-26 release; this is not represented as £0.
Source coverage
DfE mainstream-school allocations for running costs for pupils aged 5-16, importer snapshot 23 August 2026.
What this means
The official mainstream allocation release does not provide a publishable row for this establishment.
What this does not mean
The school received no public funding or has no budget; other establishment types and funding streams use different publications.

Allocation is not expenditure. DfE says this release combines the schools block with several other revenue grants and excludes capital spending. Funding is shown for context and is never used in School Facts ordering, peer groups or quality claims. Source, licence and coverage.

Roads and getting there

Road casualties within 500m

Child pedestrian casualties
3

England average 1.6 — pedestrians under 16, over five years

All reported collisions
18

England average 24.2 over five years

Of those, serious or fatal
2

Public transport

Bus stops within 500m
10

England average 11.9

Nearest station
Parson Street Rail Station

3.3 km away — railway station

Every collision reported to the police within 500m of the school over the five years to 2024, from the Department for Transport's road casualty statistics. A high count usually says the school sits on or near a busy road, not that the school is unsafe — counts rise with traffic and with how built up an area is, and a rural school on a fast road may have fewer collisions but a worse one. Distances are straight-line from the school's recorded position.

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
83%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
73%

England 85.4%

Started an apprenticeship
5%

England 3.5%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
9%
No sustained destination
12%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
105

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

The area around the school

1/10 Deprivation decile

Among the most deprived fifth of England.

1/10 Child poverty decile

Among the most deprived fifth of England for children in low-income families.

Indices of Deprivation 2019, for the small area the school stands in. 1 means the most deprived tenth of England, 10 the least. The second measure counts only children living in low-income families, which is the one that describes the intake a school is likely to draw on.

What homes cost nearby

Median sale price
£248,950

postcode sector BS13 0 · 139 sales

Typical range
£228,000 to £270,000

middle half of sales

Semi-detached
£257,000
Terraced
£250,000
Flat
£204,950

Homes around this school are close to the England average.

Every residential sale registered in this postcode sector since January 2024, from HM Land Registry. A sector covers roughly 2,500 addresses. England's median over the same period was £293,000.

Who lives there

Adults with a degree
16%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
28%

England 18.3%

In professional or managerial work
4%

England 13.4%

Households deprived in 2+ ways
38%

England 17.8%

Residents in very good health
42%

England 48.4%

Housing

Owned by the occupier
43%

England 62.7%

Social housing
35%

England 17%

Privately rented
21%

England 19.2%

Detached homes
24%

England 38.2%

Four or more bedrooms
5%

England 22.5%

No car
38%

England 21.9%

Census 2021, for Bristol 053F and the wider neighbourhood around it. These figures describe the area, not the pupils — children may travel in from much further away, and for selective, faith and independent schools they usually do.

School details

Type
Academy sponsor led
Phase
All-through
Ages
Ages 3–16
Gender
Mixed
Admissions
Non-selective
Religious character
None
Sixth form
No
Nursery
Yes
Boarding
Day school
Headteacher
Headteacher: Nick Butler
Opened as this establishment
1 March 2013
Register status
Open
Local authority
Bristol, City of
Ward
Hengrove and Whitchurch Park
Constituency
Bristol South
URN
139049

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Official DfE record
Open the register entry

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Admissions history

The official school-level admissions releases contain up to 13 national-offer-day observations, from 2014/15 to 2026/27. The chart shows first choices per place; the table keeps the underlying counts.

Year 7

1.30 2014/15: 0.90 first choices per place2015/16: 0.86 first choices per place2016/17: 0.72 first choices per place2017/18: 0.73 first choices per place2018/19: 0.54 first choices per place2019/20: 0.36 first choices per place2020/21: 0.36 first choices per place2021/22: 0.37 first choices per place2022/23: 0.38 first choices per place2023/24: 0.32 first choices per place2024/25: 0.88 first choices per place2025/26: 1.17 first choices per place2026/27: 0.94 first choices per place2014201620182020202220242026
All 13 annual observations
Entry yearPlacesFirst choicesPer placeFirst choices offered
2014/15 63 57 0.90 100%
2015/16 44 38 0.86 100%
2016/17 54 39 0.72 100%
2017/18 60 44 0.73 100%
2018/19 107 58 0.54 100%
2019/20 107 39 0.36 97%
2020/21 141 51 0.36 100%
2021/22 160 59 0.37 100%
2022/23 152 57 0.38 100%
2023/24 229 73 0.32 100%
2024/25 93 82 0.88 100%
2025/26 93 109 1.17 84%
2026/27 83 78 0.94 100%

Reception

1.20 2014/15: 0.93 first choices per place2015/16: 0.91 first choices per place2016/17: 0.88 first choices per place2017/18: 0.95 first choices per place2018/19: 0.95 first choices per place2019/20: 0.94 first choices per place2020/21: 0.72 first choices per place2021/22: 0.86 first choices per place2022/23: 1.00 first choices per place2023/24: 1.00 first choices per place2024/25: 1.03 first choices per place2025/26: 1.08 first choices per place2026/27: 1.12 first choices per place2014201620182020202220242026
All 13 annual observations
Entry yearPlacesFirst choicesPer placeFirst choices offered
2014/15 68 63 0.93 100%
2015/16 56 51 0.91 100%
2016/17 80 70 0.88 100%
2017/18 59 56 0.95 100%
2018/19 55 52 0.95 100%
2019/20 54 51 0.94 100%
2020/21 54 39 0.72 100%
2021/22 43 37 0.86 100%
2022/23 52 52 1.00 100%
2023/24 60 60 1.00 100%
2024/25 59 61 1.03 97%
2025/26 60 65 1.08 92%
2026/27 58 65 1.12 89%

These are annual observations, not forecasts. They exclude waiting lists, appeals and in-year admissions. Each series follows this exact URN only, so academy conversions and missing releases remain visible as gaps rather than being joined by name.

Nearest all-through schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Progress 8DistanceCompare
E-Act Merchants' AcademyAcademy sponsor led Inadequate 2024 29.5 — 1 mi
Oasis Academy Daventry RoadFree schools No overall grade — — 1.3 mi
St Bernadette Catholic Secondary SchoolVoluntary aided school No overall grade 44.5 -0.32-0.55 to -0.09 1.3 mi
Oasis Academy John WilliamsAcademy sponsor led Good 2023 46.9 -0.37-0.59 to -0.14 1.4 mi
Bedminster Down SchoolAcademy converter No overall grade 41.7 -0.30-0.50 to -0.10 1.7 mi
Cleve House SchoolOther independent school No overall grade — — 2.3 mi
Oasis Academy BrislingtonAcademy sponsor led Report card 2026 44.3 -0.29-0.47 to -0.12 2.5 mi
LPW Independent SchoolOther independent school No overall grade — — 2.6 mi

Schools like this

The 12 state schools in England whose intake most closely matches this one — same phase and sector, and as near as the data allows on size, disadvantage, SEN, English as an additional language and the deprivation of the surrounding area. These are the schools it can fairly be judged against.

This school 34.6
Median of its 9 closest peers 35.5
Bristol, City of average 40.2
England average 47

Attainment 8 score. This school is behind the schools that teach a comparable intake.

SchoolAreaOfstedAttainment 8Progress 8Compare
Alsop High SchoolAcademy sponsor led Liverpool Report card 2026 28.2 -1.72-1.90 to -1.53
Leeds East AcademyAcademy sponsor led Leeds No overall grade 32.7 -0.87-1.08 to -0.67
Appleton AcademyAcademy sponsor led Bradford Report card 2026 35.1 -0.87-1.09 to -0.65
Hyde High SchoolAcademy converter Hyde Requires improvement 2023 — —
Notre Dame Catholic AcademyAcademy sponsor led Liverpool Requires improvement 2022 31 —
Manchester Enterprise AcademyAcademy sponsor led Wythenshawe Report card 2026 37.5 -0.69-0.88 to -0.50
Grace Academy DarlastonAcademy sponsor led Wednesbury Report card 2026 41.2 -0.04-0.25 to 0.18 · not a win
The Prescot SchoolAcademy converter Liverpool Requires improvement 2024 35.5 -1.08-1.29 to -0.86
The Bulwell AcademyAcademy sponsor led Nottingham Report card 2026 36.1 -0.72-0.93 to -0.52
Parrenthorn High SchoolAcademy converter Manchester Good 2023 — —
South Wirral High SchoolAcademy converter Wirral Good 2022 — —
The Grange SchoolAcademy sponsor led Runcorn Good 2022 36.4 -0.84-1.08 to -0.59

Matching uses only characteristics a school does not choose. It is not a ranking, and a close match on intake does not make two schools interchangeable — sixth form, faith character, admissions rules and simple geography all matter and are not in the calculation.

Evidence ledger

Reference dates and join methods are kept separate because the figures do not all describe the same year or geography.

EvidencePublisherReference dateHow it reaches this page
School identityGet Information About Schools23 August 2026Exact URN 139049; unified importer snapshot
Inspection evidenceOfsted management information31 July 2026Exact URN; inspection 6 January 2026
AttainmentDfE performance tables2024/25Exact URN; phase-specific definitions
Progress 8DfE performance tables2023/24Exact URN; confidence interval retained
AdmissionsDfE school applications and offers2026/27 plus history to 2014/15Exact URN and entry point; national offer day
Pupil intakeDfE school census2024/25Exact URN; suppressed values remain missing
Funding allocationDfE school funding statistics2025-26 financial yearNo row for this URN in the mainstream-school release; not represented as zero
Roads and transportDfT road casualties, traffic and NaPTANFive-year road window; access-node snapshotCoordinate join within the stated radius
NeighbourhoodONS Census2021LSOA/MSOA containing the school, not pupil homes
DeprivationEnglish Indices of Deprivation2019LSOA containing the school
Home pricesHM Land Registry Price Paid DataSales since January 2024School postcode sector, not a catchment

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