Abbeywood Community School

Academy sponsor led·Secondary school Bristol, South Gloucestershire·BS34 8SF
Composite score
57.5
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#1,534
National rank
#142
In South West
#7
In South Gloucestershire
Top 48%
Nationally

Performance (KS4 GCSE)

Attainment 8 score
46.0
National avg ≈ 46
Progress 8 score
—
% achieving 9–5 in English & Maths
46%
% achieving 9–4 in English & Maths
67%
% EBacc grade 5+
2%
EBacc average points score
3.68

Ofsted judgements

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Quality of education
Good
Behaviour and attitudes
Good
Personal development
Good
Leadership and management
Good
Safeguarding effective?
Yes
Sixth form provision
Good

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
90%
244 first choices, 223 places
First choices per place
1.09
more first choices than places
Applications naming the school
493
any preference, for 223 places
Applications from another council area
5%
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.10
00.511.5
1 per place
0.9620221.0720231.1420240.9920251.092026

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

We do not have a checked cut-off distance for Abbeywood Community 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
1,267
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None
Admissions
Non-Selective

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
22.1%
Typical secondary: 27.5%
% EAL
18.2%
Typical secondary: 12.0%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
18.4%
Typical secondary: 13.7%
% with an EHC plan
5.8%
Typical secondary: 2.9%

Attendance

Overall absence
8.4%
Typical secondary: 8.9%
Persistently absent
23.5%
Typical secondary: 25.7%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
17.3
Typical secondary: 16.7
Spend per pupil
£7,602
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
95%
178 pupils tracked
Stayed in education
85%
Apprenticeship
5%
Employment
4%

DfE, KS4 destination measures.

Nearby secondary schools

Location

About Abbeywood Community School

Abbeywood Community School is a secondary school in Bristol, South Gloucestershire, classified by the DfE as a sponsor-led academy. Around 1,267 pupils aged 11 to 19 attend the school. The school's average Attainment 8 score in the latest GCSE results was 46.0 — broadly in line with the national average (national average: 46). Its Attainment 8 score has fallen by 0.8 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.

46% 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. Abbeywood Community 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 244 first choices for 223 places. After Year 11, 95% of its leavers went on to education, an apprenticeship or work that they stayed in for at least two terms. Overall pupil absence was 8.4%. There are about 17.3 pupils per teacher. Abbeywood Community 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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