Brentry Primary School

Brentry Primary School is performing well overall, with leaders maintaining high expectations and providing effective curriculum and teaching. The school fosters an inclusive environment that supports pupils, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities. However, the school faces challenges in writing attainment and attendance rates, particularly among disadvantaged pupils. The inspection highlights the need for improvements in early writing and to sustain recent progress in attendance.

Strengths

• Strong commitment to safeguarding, ensuring pupil safety and wellbeing.
• Broad and ambitious curriculum effectively tailored to meet pupils' needs.
• Prioritization of reading and phonics leading to early success.
• Effective support for pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities.
• Positive behaviour management strategies creating a purposeful learning environment.
• Good relationships with parents and the community, fostering a supportive atmosphere.

Areas for Improvement

• Inconsistent early writing teaching affecting pupils' fluency.
• Low attendance rates among some disadvantaged pupils.
• High rates of persistent absence needing urgent attention.

Admissions: local authority offers data from the Department for Education. A school is oversubscribed when at least 5% of the families who put it first were not offered a place, and undersubscribed when everyone who put it first got in but 10% or more of its places were unfilled in the Department's school capacity survey (the latest survey is used for entry years it does not cover). Places: Department for Education, School capacity, from local authorities' annual survey as at 1 May. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024–25); the survey was not run in 2020. Places include sixth form places. Forecasts are the local authority's own for the school's planning area, an area it uses to plan places that is not the school's catchment area. The forecast starts from a head count in 2025; the dashed line is the Department's estimate of places in that area, including those the authority has firm plans for. Planned places are cumulative, and only those with firm plans are counted.

In 2024–25 pupils at Brentry Primary School attended 93.9% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 20.9% of pupils were persistently absent, missing at least one session in ten (nationally 13.0%).

Sessions missed

Pupils persistently absent

Source: Department for Education, Pupil absence in schools in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). Persistent absence means missing 10% or more of sessions; severe absence means 50% or more. No figures were published for 2019/20.

In 2024–25, 2.9% of pupils at Brentry Primary School were suspended at least once (nationally 1.1%). No pupils were permanently excluded.

Pupils suspended at least once

Source: Department for Education, Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). A pupil can be suspended more than once, so suspensions per 100 pupils can be higher than the share of pupils suspended. Very small numbers are hidden by the DfE. Exclusion figures dropped in 2020 and 2021 because of school closures.

In 2025–26 Brentry Primary School had 18.8 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 15.2% were no longer at the school a year later (nationally 15.7%).

Pupils per teacher

Teachers who left the school within a year

Source: Department for Education, School workforce in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). Pupils per teacher counts full-time-equivalent pupils and teachers. Turnover is the share of a year's teachers (full-time equivalent) who were not at the school the following year, whether they moved to another school or left state-funded teaching. Turnover and sickness figures run one year behind the ratios. Sick leave is the share of teachers who took at least one day in the year, so it swings widely at small schools, where a few teachers can make it 0% or 100%. The national figures are for all state schools of the same type.

In 2025–26, 9.4% of pupils at Brentry Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 5.9% had an education, health and care (EHC) plan (nationally 4.1%).

Pupils by main type of need

Source: Department for Education, Special educational needs in England (the 2025–26 school census). SEN support is extra help in school without an EHC plan. National figures are for all state-funded primary schools. Counts are as published, with small numbers not hidden.

In 2025–26 Brentry Primary School received £9,126 and spent £9,511 for each of its 203 pupils. It ended the year with a deficit of £193,000 (-£949 per pupil).

Income per pupil

Spending per pupil

Source: Department for Education, Financial Benchmarking and Insights Tool. Each year is the one the financial year ends in (2024 is 2023–24).

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What is Brentry Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Brentry Primary School is Needs attention, from an inspection in April 2026.

When was Brentry Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Brentry Primary School was last inspected in April 2026.

How many pupils does Brentry Primary School have?

Brentry Primary School has 203 pupils on roll.

What age range does Brentry Primary School cover?

Brentry Primary School for pupils aged 4 to 11.

What are Brentry Primary School's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 66% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Brentry Primary School?

Brentry Primary School is at Brentry Lane, Brentry, Bristol, BS10 6RG.