Brimsham Green School

Community school·Secondary school Bristol, South Gloucestershire·BS37 7LB
Composite score
56.1
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#1,728
National rank
#166
In South West
#8
In South Gloucestershire
Top 54%
Nationally

Performance (KS4 GCSE)

Attainment 8 score
44.9
National avg ≈ 46
Progress 8 score
—
% achieving 9–5 in English & Maths
43%
% achieving 9–4 in English & Maths
67%
% EBacc grade 5+
5%
EBacc average points score
3.78

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
95%
205 first choices, 197 places
First choices per place
1.04
more first choices than places
Applications naming the school
394
any preference, for 197 places
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.08
00.511.5
1 per place
0.9020220.8120230.8420240.9620251.042026

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

We do not have a checked cut-off distance for Brimsham Green School yet. South Gloucestershire 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
11–19
Pupils on roll
1,051
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None
Admissions
Non-Selective

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
21.2%
Typical secondary: 27.5%
% EAL
7.6%
Typical secondary: 12.0%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
17.6%
Typical secondary: 13.7%
% with an EHC plan
3.4%
Typical secondary: 2.9%

Attendance

Overall absence
9.6%
Typical secondary: 8.9%
Persistently absent
26.2%
Typical secondary: 25.7%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
17.1
Typical secondary: 16.7
Spend per pupil
£7,008
Typical secondary: £7,815

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

What pupils do next

The share of this school's Year 11 leavers in education, training or employment for at least two terms afterwards.

In education, training or work
93%
163 pupils tracked
Stayed in education
79%
Apprenticeship
10%
Employment
4%

DfE, KS4 destination measures.

Nearby secondary schools

Location

About Brimsham Green School

Brimsham Green School is a secondary school in Bristol, South Gloucestershire, classified by the DfE as a community school. Around 1,051 pupils aged 11 to 19 attend the school. The school's average Attainment 8 score in the latest GCSE results was 44.9 — broadly in line with the national average (national average: 46). Its Attainment 8 score has fallen by 5.3 points compared with the previous year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it around the middle of secondary schools nationally.

43% of pupils achieved a grade 5 or above in both English and maths, in line with the national average of about 45%. 67% achieved a standard pass (grade 4+) in English and maths. Brimsham Green School is oversubscribed: about 9 in 10 of the families who made it their first choice were offered a Year 7 place for September 2026, with 205 first choices for 197 places. After Year 11, 93% of its leavers went on to education, an apprenticeship or work that they stayed in for at least two terms. Overall pupil absence was 9.6%. There are about 17.1 pupils per teacher. Brimsham Green 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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