Frome Vale Academy

Academy sponsor led·Primary school Bristol, City of·BS16 2QS
Composite score
37.1
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National rank
#1230
In South West
#68
In Bristol, City of
Top 80%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
57%
% achieving higher RWM
0%
Reading average scaled score
106.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
103.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Ofsted judgements

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

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
79%
29 first choices, 29 places
First choices per place
1.00
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
115
any preference, for 29 places
Applications from another council area
25%
First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.10
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1 per place
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Red dashed line = one first choice per place. How to read this

We do not have a checked cut-off distance for Frome Vale Academy 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
202
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
32.2%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
21.8%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
14.4%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
6.4%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
4.8%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
13.9%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
20.2
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£6,515
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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About Frome Vale Academy

Frome Vale Academy is a primary school in Bristol, City of, classified by the DfE as a sponsor-led academy. Around 202 pupils aged 4 to 11 attend the school. The school holds an 'Outstanding' judgement from Ofsted. 57% 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 26.0 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 106 in reading and 103 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 79% of the families who made Frome Vale Academy their first choice were offered a Reception place for September 2026, even though the school made at least as many offers as it had first choices - the rest withdrew, moved or fell outside a priority group. Overall pupil absence was 4.8%. There are about 20.2 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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