St Bonaventure's Catholic Primary School
Primary · Bristol · BS7 8HP
Data updated
Earlier grade, confirmed by a later ungraded inspection
Ofsted's most recent (ungraded) visit confirmed the school remains Good. Ungraded inspections do not award a new grade.
Inspected 14 June 2023
Read the Ofsted report ↗At a glance
404 pupils · 96% of 420 capacity (January 2026 census)
- School type
- Academy converter
- Age range
- 4–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Free school meals
- 6.9% of pupils (January 2026)
- English as additional language
- 16.4% of pupils (2024/2025)
- SEN support
- 11.9% of pupils (2024/2025)
- EHC plan
- 2.2% of pupils (2024/2025)
- URN
- 151174
In figures
For September 2026 entry, 60 families named it first for 60 Reception places, 1.00 first choices per place. We hold 2 Reception admissions rounds for it, 2022 to 2023; none was decided by a published distance. An ungraded Ofsted inspection on 14 June 2023 confirmed its earlier grade, Good. In the 2025/26 autumn and spring terms its pupils missed 3.8% of sessions, against 6.6% across England.
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
1.00 first-choice applications per place60 places offered · 60 first-choice applications · roughly balanced
Source: DfE applications and offers on national offer day · how demand is measured
Catchment area
Catchment area: not named in the council's figures. The council did not publish a cutoff distance for 2023 entry.
Admissions cutoff distance: Reception
The council did not publish a cutoff distance for 2023 entry.
Source: the admissions authority's published figures · how cutoffs work
Compare admissions across the area: Bristol school admissions · Bristol, City of school admissions
Pupils by ethnicity (January 2026)
White British 66% (Bristol, City of 56%, England 60%) · Any other White background 14% (Bristol, City of 8%, England 7%) · Any other Mixed background 5% (Bristol, City of 4%, England 3%) · Black African 2% (Bristol, City of 8%, England 5%) · Mixed White and Asian 2% (Bristol, City of 2%, England 2%) · Mixed White and Black Caribbean 2% (Bristol, City of 3%, England 2%) · Not recorded 2% (Bristol, City of 1%, England 1%) · Asian Indian 1% (Bristol, City of 3%, England 4%) · White Irish 1% (Bristol, City of 0%, England 0%) · Any other Asian background 1% (Bristol, City of 3%, England 2%) · Asian Chinese 1% (Bristol, City of 1%, England 1%) · Any other Black background 1% (Bristol, City of 2%, England 1%) · Mixed White and Black African 1% (Bristol, City of 1%, England 1%) · other groups together 1%
Source: DfE schools, pupils and their characteristics, January 2026 census · how to read these figures
Attendance (2025/26 autumn and spring terms)
Suspensions and permanent exclusions (2024/25)
0.00 suspensions per 100 pupils and 0 permanent exclusions · England, primary schools: 2.47 suspensions and 0.03 permanent exclusions per 100 pupils · Bristol, City of: 2.66 suspensions and 0.03 permanent exclusions per 100 pupils
Source: DfE pupil absence data, autumn and spring terms, and DfE suspensions and permanent exclusions, school-level file · how absence is measured · how to read exclusions
Staffing
Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.
Vacancies (November 2025)
0% of teaching posts vacant, 0% filled temporarily · England, primary academies: 0.3% vacant, 0.32% temporary
Teacher pay (November 2025)
Mean salary of full-time qualified teachers £53,699; 4.8% on the leadership pay range · England, primary schools: £50,856, 17.3%
Source: DfE School Workforce Census · how these figures are counted
The area around the school
- Child poverty (IDACI)
- 10/10among the least deprived tenth of England
- Overall deprivation (IMD)
- 10/10among the least deprived tenth of England
| Census 2021 | This area | England |
|---|---|---|
| Adults with a degree or higher | 68.4% | 33.9% |
| Adults with no qualifications | 4.3% | 18.1% |
| In managerial or professional work | 59.3% | 33.2% |
| Households deprived in two or more ways | 5.6% | 18.1% |
| Residents in very good health | 60.9% | 48.5% |
| Homes owned by the occupier | 83.1% | 62.3% |
| Social housing | 1.3% | 17.1% |
| Privately rented | 15.6% | 20.5% |
| Detached houses | 2.3% | 22.9% |
| Flats | 10.9% | 22.2% |
| Homes with four or more bedrooms | 40.7% | 21.1% |
| Households with no car or van | 11.9% | 23.5% |
These figures describe the area, not the pupils. Source: Census 2021 (ONS) and English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (MHCLG) for small area E01014513 · how to read area figures
What homes cost nearby
- Median sale price
- £642,000774 sales within 1 km, January 2024 to September 2026
- Typical range
- £443,500–£815,000the middle half of sales
- England median
- £300,000all sales over the same period
Homes around this school are among the dearest tenth of school neighbourhoods in England, comparing the median within 1 km across every state school.
Source: HM Land Registry sales within 1 km since January 2024 · how sales are counted. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Postcodes located with OS Code-Point Open: contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026; contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2026; contains National Statistics data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.
Roads around the school
- Child pedestrian casualties
- 0an urban school averages 2.0
- Collisions at school-run times
- 5an urban school averages 5.7
- All reported collisions
- 18an urban school averages 30.5
- Of those, serious or fatal
- 0an urban school averages 6.1
A high count usually reflects traffic, not an unsafe school. Source: DfT road casualty statistics (STATS19), collisions within 500 m, 2021–2025 · what is counted
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