Cotham Gardens Primary School

Academy converter·Primary school Bristol, City of·BS6 6AL
Composite score
34.4
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#12,465
National rank
#1309
In South West
#73
In Bristol, City of
Top 84%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
53%
% achieving higher RWM
0%
Reading average scaled score
107.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
104.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Ofsted judgements

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

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
22 first choices, 22 places
First choices per place
1.00
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
42
any preference, for 22 places
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.16
00.511.5
1 per place
0.8320220.8420230.7920240.8420251.002026

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

Every child who put Cotham Gardens 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
412
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
20.6%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
45.1%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
15.8%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
1.9%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
6.0%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
17.2%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
22.6
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£7,818
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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Location

Cotham Gardens Primary School at a glance

Located in Bristol, City of, Cotham Gardens Primary School is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a converter academy. The school educates roughly 412 pupils aged 4 to 11. In the most recent Key Stage 2 SATs, 53% of pupils reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths combined — below the national average of 61%. That marks an improvement of 13.0 percentage points in the proportion reaching the expected standard on 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 104 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). Cotham Gardens Primary School was not oversubscribed for September 2026: all 22 families who put it first were offered a place. Overall pupil absence was 6.0%. There are about 22.6 pupils per teacher. Cotham Gardens 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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