Hillcrest Primary School
Primary · Bristol · BS4 3DE
Report-card inspection (current system, from November 2025)
The headline grade shown is the Achievement area of the school's report card.
Inspected 24 February 2026 · report published 5 May 2026
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410 pupils · 98% of 420 capacity
- School type
- Community school
- Age range
- 4–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Free school meals
- 7.8% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 12.2% of pupils
- SEN support
- 13.4% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 3.7% of pupils
- URN
- 131522
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
1.27 first-choice applications per place60 places offered · 76 first-choice applications · oversubscribed
First-choice applications per place, by entry year
Applications and offers on national offer day, DfE. A ratio above 1.00 means more families named this school first choice than there were places.
Key stage 2 results (2024/2025)
58 pupils at the end of key stage 2 in 2024/2025
Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025. “Suppressed” means the DfE withholds figures for very small cohorts.
Attendance (2025/26 autumn term)
Autumn-term absence, DfE pupil absence data. Lower is better.
Staffing
Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.
Teacher retention (2024/25)
84% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 5% moved to another state school · 10% left the state-funded sector
School Workforce Census, DfE. The ratio counts full-time-equivalent qualified teachers; retention follows teachers in post one November to the next. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Spending per pupil
Total expenditure ÷ pupils, council-maintained school finance return (DfE Schools Financial Benchmarking, latest year). Higher spending is not a measure of quality. It often reflects greater pupil need or a smaller school. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Inspection history since 2015
- 24 February 2026: Expected standard
- 18 January 2022: School remains Good
- 28 June 2016: Good
- 14 September 2015: Taking effective action to tackle the areas requiring improvement
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.
Nearby schools
- St Philips Marsh Nursery School and Barton Hill Childrens Centre/Cashmore Early Years Centre
- Knowle Park Primary School
- Oasis Academy Temple Quarter
- Victoria Park Primary School
- St Mary Redcliffe Church of England Primary School
- St Mary Redcliffe and Temple School
- Redcliffe Childrens Centre and Maintained Nursery School
- Oasis Academy Marksbury Road