Kings' Forest Primary School

Academy converter·Primary school Bristol, South Gloucestershire·BS15 4PQ
Composite score
51.5
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National rank
#644
In South West
#27
In South Gloucestershire
Top 46%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
72%
% achieving higher RWM
4%
Reading average scaled score
106.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
105.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Ofsted judgements

New framework · Last inspection: 18/11/2025 · Read full report ↗

Achievement
Expected standard
Leadership and governance
Expected standard
Curriculum and teaching
Expected standard
Attendance and behaviour
Expected standard
Personal development and wellbeing
Expected standard
Inclusion
Strong standard
Safeguarding standards
Met
Early years
Expected standard

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
89%
66 first choices, 60 places
First choices per place
1.10
more first choices than places
Applications naming the school
121
any preference, for 60 places
Applications from another council area
2%
First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.10
00.511.5
1 per place
n/a2022n/a20230.9720241.2020251.102026

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

We do not have a checked cut-off distance for Kings' Forest Primary 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
3–11
Pupils on roll
442
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
14.7%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
7.9%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
7.5%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
5.7%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
5.4%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
12.8%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
22.3
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£5,944
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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Location

School overview

Kings' Forest Primary School is a primary school serving Bristol, South Gloucestershire, classified by the DfE as a converter academy. It has 442 pupils aged 3 to 11 on roll. 72% of its pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of Key Stage 2, above the national average (national figure: 61%). The proportion reaching the expected standard has risen by 5.0 percentage points year on year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it around the middle of primary schools nationally.

Pupils achieved an average scaled score of 106 in reading and 105 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 4% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). Kings' Forest 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 66 first choices for 60 places. Overall pupil absence was 5.4%. There are about 22.3 pupils per teacher. Kings' Forest 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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