Stanbridge Primary School
General Information
- Address: Stanbridge Road, Downend, Bristol, BS16 6AL – View on map
- Phone: 01454862000
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mrs Karlina Lock
- Age range: 4-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 67 families put it first for 60 places – 11 for every 10 places. 84% of them were offered a place. No places went to families living outside the council area. Children putting it first, for every 10 places: 2024 9 · 2025 10 · 2026 11
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Does not apply
- Nursery provision: No
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 40
- % eligible for free school meals: 9.6%
- Pupil mix: 3 in 10 (similar to the South Gloucestershire average)
- English as an additional language: 6% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 13.6% a year (South Gloucestershire 15%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 48% moved to another school, 52% left state schools altogether (retirement, other careers, independent schools, abroad)
- Data years: 2022/23 to 2024/25 (average of 2 years, DfE school workforce census)
Teachers who moved school or left state schools in the year after each November, as a share of all the school's teachers. Some turnover is healthy – retirements, promotions, moving house.
Behaviour
Awaiting Data
Across South Gloucestershire: suspensions by reason
- Suspensions for sexual misconduct: 2 (0.1 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Permanent exclusions for sexual misconduct: 1
- Suspensions for bullying: 4 (0.2 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Suspensions for abuse against sexual orientation or gender identity: 0 (0.0 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.0)
- Data year: 2024/25 (DfE suspensions and exclusions statistics)
These are figures for all state primary schools in South Gloucestershire, not this school's own – the government doesn't publish them school by school. A suspension can have up to three reasons. Most sexual harassment between pupils never leads to a suspension, so these figures show only part of the picture.
Attendance
- Overall absence: 4.3%
- Persistently absent pupils: 9.3%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 8.7%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 3.4%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Social, emotional and mental health: 11 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 10 pupils
- SEN support but no specialist assessment of type of need: 5 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 4 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 4 pupils
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Speech, language and communications needs: 6 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 4 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 2 pupils
- Severe learning difficulty: 1 pupil
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
Ofsted report card May 2026
Ofsted's new report cards grade each part of school life separately, instead of giving one overall word.
- Safeguarding Met
- Inclusion Expected standard
- Curriculum and teaching Expected standard
- Achievement Expected standard
- Attendance and behaviour Expected standard
- Personal development and wellbeing Expected standard
- Early years Strong standard
- Leadership and governance Expected standard
Before this, under the old system, Ofsted rated the school Good (2023). The report card above replaces that grade.
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 63% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 3% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: in line with the South Gloucestershire average (64%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: Below (3-year average 63% against an expected 70%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 63%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 72% · Writing 82% · Maths 75% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 80%
- Average test scores: reading 105, maths 104
- Based on: 60 Year 6 pupils, 2024/25
View the School Context Comparator – how this school's SATs results compare with schools teaching similar pupils.
SATs results over time
Year 6 SATs: joint 39th of 81 junior and primary schools in the area
- =39Bowsland Green Primary School63%
- =39Holy Family Catholic Primary School63%
- =39Stanbridge Primary School63%
- =42Almondsbury Church of England Primary School62%
- =42Bromley Heath Junior School62%
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £5,522 (2024-25)
76th of 76 primary schools in South Gloucestershire for spending per pupil
- #74Woodlands Primary School£5,718
- #75Wallscourt Farm Academy£5,715
- #76Stanbridge Primary School£5,522
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