St John's Church of England Primary School

Academy converter·Primary school Bristol, Bath and North East Somerset·BS31 2NB
Composite score
60.0
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#3,917
National rank
#350
In South West
#15
In Bath and North East Somerset
Top 26%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
87%
% achieving higher RWM
3%
Reading average scaled score
108.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
105.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Ofsted judgements

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

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
88%
33 first choices, 30 places
First choices per place
1.10
more first choices than places
Applications naming the school
69
any preference, for 30 places
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.18
00.511.5
1 per place
1.2320221.2320231.1020240.9220251.102026

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

We do not have a checked cut-off distance for St John's Church of England Primary School yet. Bath and North East Somerset 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
3–11
Pupils on roll
201
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Church of England

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
14.4%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
5.5%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
14.4%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
2.5%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
3.5%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
5.9%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
18.3
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£6,353
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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Location

St John's Church of England Primary School at a glance

Located in Bristol, Bath and North East Somerset, St John's Church of England Primary School is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a converter academy with a Church of England religious character. The school educates roughly 201 pupils aged 3 to 11. Ofsted judged the school to be 'Good' at its most recent inspection. 87% of its pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of Key Stage 2, well above the national average (national figure: 61%). The proportion reaching the expected standard has risen by 24.0 percentage points year on year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it in the top 26% of primary schools nationally.

Pupils achieved an average scaled score of 108 in reading and 105 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 3% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). St John's Church of England Primary School is oversubscribed: about 9 in 10 of the families who made it their first choice were offered a Reception place for September 2026, with 33 first choices for 30 places. Overall pupil absence was 3.5%. There are about 18.3 pupils per teacher. When comparing schools, it is still worth visiting in person to see whether the atmosphere and approach suit your child. 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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