Summerhill Infant School

Community school·Infant school Bristol, City of·BS5 7LE

School type

Infant school

Ages 5–7

Key Stage 2 performance

Summerhill Infant School is an infant school for pupils aged 5–7. Pupils move on to a separate junior or middle school before Year 6, so the school does not enter pupils for the Key Stage 2 SATs and has no KS2 results to publish.

This applies to every infant school in England — it does not mean data is missing. Ofsted judgements and school information are shown below.

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first

76%

62 first choices, 59 places

First choices per place

1.05

more first choices than places

Applications naming the school

180

any preference, for 59 places

First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.08

00.511.5

1 per place

0.8020220.7820230.8520240.9720251.052026

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

We do not have a checked cut-off distance for Summerhill Infant 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: 5–7
Pupils on roll: 175
Gender: Mixed
Religious character: None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6

30.3%

Typical primary: 21.5%

% EAL

28.6%

Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support

20.6%

Typical primary: 14.3%

% with an EHC plan

0.0%

Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence

7.1%

Typical primary: 5.3%

Persistently absent

27.3%

Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher

19.4

Typical primary: 20.7

Spend per pupil

£7,279

Typical primary: £6,960

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

Nearby primary schools

Summerhill Academy Bristol · 0.1 mi 64.8 Air Balloon Hill Primary School Bristol · 0.5 mi 47.2 St Patrick's Catholic Primary School Bristol · 0.6 mi 46.5 Redfield Educate Together Primary Academy Bristol · 0.7 mi 30.6 Whitehall Primary School Bristol · 0.7 mi 38.5 E-Act the Kingfisher School Bristol · 0.8 mi 13.6 Chester Park Junior School Bristol · 0.9 mi 26.6 Two Mile Hill Primary School Bristol · 0.9 mi 37.6

Location

Official sources

Latest Ofsted report reports.ofsted.gov.uk DfE Compare School Performance compare-school-performance.service.gov.uk GIAS school details get-information-schools.service.gov.uk

Summerhill Infant School at a glance

Located in Bristol, City of, Summerhill Infant School is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a community school. The school educates roughly 175 pupils aged 5 to 7.

Competition for places is real here - 76% of first-choice applicants were offered a Reception place for September 2026 (62 first choices for 59 places). Overall pupil absence was 7.1%. There are about 19.4 pupils per teacher. Summerhill Infant 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.