SF School Facts UK

Secondary school in Bristol, Bath and North East Somerset

IKB Academy

68 Bath Road, Bristol, BS31 1SP

Ofsted Good · 2022 Sixth form
School website 01179161025

Ofsted

Goodas at 5 April 2022

Graded Good at its last graded inspection, on 5 April 2022.

Ofsted stopped awarding single-word overall grades in September 2024. This grade is 4 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

38.3 England 47

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

Grade 5+ in English & maths

32% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

53% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

3 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

3% England 40.8%

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

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

Progress 8 2023/24

-0.54confidence interval -0.94 to -0.14

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

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
29.4

England average 32.3

A level students
9

Pupils

Pupils on roll
136
Places
300
How full
45% full — 136 of 300 places taken, so places are likely to be available
Girls / boys
36 / 100
Overall absence
17%

secondary schools average 8.6%

Persistently absent
39%

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

Free school meals, last 6 years
26%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
3%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
7%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
24%

England 15%

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
93%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
57%

England 85.4%

Started an apprenticeship
27%

England 3.5%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
9%
No sustained destination
7%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
44

After sixth form

Went to university
3%

England 50%

In education, work or training
90%

England 84.3%

Started an apprenticeship
31%

England 6.5%

Students in the cohort
29

Going on to university 2021/22 leavers

Went to a top third university

7% 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
37%

England 65.3%

Students in the cohort
27

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 Bath and North East Somerset 003D, 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
38%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
12%

England 18.3%

Households owning their home
77%

England 62.7%

Households in social housing
11%

England 17%

Households with no car
13%

England 21.9%

Adults economically inactive
37%

England 39.9%

School details

Type
Studio schools
Phase
Secondary
Ages
Ages 14–19
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None
Sixth form
Yes
Nursery
No
Boarding
Day school
Trust
FUTURA LEARNING PARTNERSHIP
Headteacher
Headteacher: Peter Headeach
Ward
Keynsham East
Constituency
North East Somerset and Hanham
URN
142127

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Nearest secondary schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Distance
Wellsway SchoolAcademy converter No grade 50.5 0.1 mi
Lift BroadlandsAcademy sponsor led Good 2023 31.8 1 mi
Sir Bernard Lovell AcademyAcademy sponsor led No grade 44.5 2.3 mi
Oasis Academy BrislingtonAcademy sponsor led No grade 44.3 2.5 mi
Hanham Woods AcademyAcademy sponsor led No grade 44.1 2.6 mi
Digitech Studio SchoolStudio schools No grade 31.2 3.1 mi
St Bernadette Catholic Secondary SchoolVoluntary aided school No grade 44.5 3.3 mi
John Cabot AcademyAcademy sponsor led No grade 52.1 3.4 mi

Schools with a similar intake

State-funded secondary 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
John Hanson Community SchoolCommunity school Good 2024 43.5
Heart of England SchoolAcademy converter Good 2024 47.2
Hounsdown SchoolAcademy converter Good 2024 46.1
St Ivo AcademyAcademy converter Good 2024 47.1
Greenbank High SchoolAcademy converter Good 2022 50.6
Carmel CollegeAcademy converter No grade 53.5
King James Academy RoystonAcademy converter Good 2024 40.3
Wembley High Technology CollegeAcademy converter Outstanding 2022 63.5

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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