Our Lady of the Rosary Catholic Primary School, Bristol

Voluntary aided school·Primary school Bristol, City of·BS11 0PA
Composite score
39.6
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National rank
#1131
In South West
#58
In Bristol, City of
Top 74%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
61%
% achieving higher RWM
0%
Reading average scaled score
107.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
105.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Ofsted judgements

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Overall effectiveness
Good
Quality of education
Good
Behaviour and attitudes
Good
Personal development
Good
Leadership and management
Good
Safeguarding effective?
Yes
Early years provision
Good

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
83%
35 first choices, 30 places
First choices per place
1.17
more first choices than places
Applications naming the school
66
any preference, for 30 places
Applications from another council area
6%
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.10
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1 per place
1.3720221.2320231.1320241.0720251.172026

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

We do not have a checked cut-off distance for Our Lady of the Rosary Catholic Primary School, Bristol 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
212
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Roman Catholic

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
19.3%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
35.8%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
10.8%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
2.4%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
5.1%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
12.6%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
19.6
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£6,524
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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Location

Our Lady of the Rosary Catholic Primary School, Bristol at a glance

Located in Bristol, City of, Our Lady of the Rosary Catholic Primary School, Bristol is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a voluntary aided school with a Roman Catholic religious character. The school educates roughly 212 pupils aged 4 to 11. Ofsted judged the school to be 'Good' at its most recent inspection. 61% 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%). The proportion reaching the expected standard has fallen by 8.0 percentage points compared with the previous 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 105 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). Our Lady of the Rosary Catholic Primary School, Bristol is oversubscribed: about 8 in 10 of the families who made it their first choice were offered a Reception place for September 2026, with 35 first choices for 30 places. Overall pupil absence was 5.1%. There are about 19.6 pupils per teacher. Given the recent dip in results, it may be worth asking the school what is behind the change and what is being done in response. 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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