Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Primary School

Voluntary aided school·Primary school Bristol, South Gloucestershire·BS15 8PX
Composite score
17.6
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#14,565
National rank
#1583
In South West
#86
In South Gloucestershire
Top 98%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
27%
% achieving higher RWM
0%
Reading average scaled score
99.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
99.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Ofsted judgements

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

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
8 first choices, 8 places
First choices per place
1.00
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
23
any preference, for 8 places
Applications from another council area
4%
First preferences per place, last five years▶ 0.00
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1 per place
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Red dashed line = one first choice per place. How to read this

Every child who put Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Primary School first was offered a place in 2026, so no distance cut-off applied: living further away did not cost a place that year.

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

School profile

Age range
4–11
Pupils on roll
167
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Roman Catholic

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
20.4%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
42.5%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
11.4%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
3.0%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
6.4%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
15.9%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
17.4
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£7,139
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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About Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Primary School

Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Primary School is a primary school in Bristol, South Gloucestershire, classified by the DfE as a voluntary aided school with a Roman Catholic religious character. Around 167 pupils aged 4 to 11 attend the school. The school holds a 'Requires improvement' judgement from Ofsted. 27% of its pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of Key Stage 2, well below the national average (national figure: 61%). The proportion reaching the expected standard has fallen by 9.0 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 99 in reading and 99 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). Getting a place is straightforward: for the September 2026 intake every family who made Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Primary School their first choice was offered one of its 8 Reception places. Overall pupil absence was 6.4%. There are about 17.4 pupils per teacher. If you are considering Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Primary School, it may be worth asking how leaders have responded to Ofsted's findings and what has changed since the inspection. 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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