Glenfrome Primary School

Community school·Primary school Bristol, City of·BS5 6TY
Composite score
44.8
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National rank
#928
In South West
#43
In Bristol, City of
Top 62%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
60%
% achieving higher RWM
5%
Reading average scaled score
107.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
103.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Ofsted judgements

New framework · Last inspection: 09/12/2025 · Read full report ↗

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

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
94%
53 first choices, 59 places
First choices per place
0.90
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
143
any preference, for 59 places
Applications from another council area
1%
First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.13
00.511.5
1 per place
0.9620220.8820231.1620241.0320250.902026

Red dashed line = one first choice per place. How to read this

We do not have a checked cut-off distance for Glenfrome Primary School yet. Bristol, City of does publish allocation figures and we are working through them council by council — we only show a distance once we have found it in the council’s own document.

Application figures: DfE, school level applications and offers (2026 intake).

School profile

Age range
4–11
Pupils on roll
425
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
23.1%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
33.6%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
17.2%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
4.9%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
7.1%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
20.6%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
20.9
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£7,333
Typical primary: £6,960

“Typical” = the median primary school in England. What this means

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Location

School overview

Glenfrome Primary School is a primary school serving Bristol, City of, classified by the DfE as a community school. It has 425 pupils aged 4 to 11 on roll. 60% of its pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of Key Stage 2, broadly in line with the national average (national figure: 61%). Performance is little changed year on year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it in the lower half of primary schools nationally.

Pupils achieved an average scaled score of 107 in reading and 103 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 5% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). 94% of the families who made Glenfrome Primary School their first choice were offered a Reception place for September 2026, even though the school made at least as many offers as it had first choices - the rest withdrew, moved or fell outside a priority group. Overall pupil absence was 7.1%. There are about 20.9 pupils per teacher. Glenfrome Primary School does not currently have a recent graded Ofsted judgement on record (often the case for newer or recently converted schools), so it is worth asking when its next inspection is expected. This overview is generated automatically from the latest published DfE performance tables and Ofsted data; figures are rounded, and you can check the originals via the official links above.

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