Blaise Primary and Nursery School

Blaise Primary and Nursery School is a community school that inspectors found to be performing well overall, with positive findings across the quality of education, behaviour and attitudes, personal development, leadership and management, and early years provision. Pupils are described as happy, polite and well behaved, and they benefit from warm relationships with staff, a broad personal-development offer and an ambitious, well-sequenced curriculum. Reading is a clear priority, and pupils, including those with English as an additional language and those with SEND, are generally well supported to access the curriculum.

Strengths

• Ambitious, well-sequenced curriculum across subjects
• Strong priority on reading, with effective catch-up support
• High expectations and good attainment in most subjects
• Pupils behave well and show respect and good manners
• Warm, respectful relationships between pupils and staff
• Robust SEND identification and effective use of external agency advice
• Wide range of clubs, visits and pupil leadership roles
• Effective personal development, including British values and community involvement
• Governors use their expertise to hold leaders to account
• Staff value the focus on workload, wellbeing and collaboration
• Effective safeguarding arrangements

Areas for Improvement

• In some curriculum areas, learning activities are not adapted well enough to meet pupils’ needs
• Some pupils develop gaps in knowledge or do not build depth of understanding over time
• Published 2024 higher-standard national curriculum test outcomes reflect weaker progress for some pupils
• Persistent absence remains too high, so some pupils miss learning
• Attendance work needs to continue to improve regular attendance for persistently absent pupils

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 Blaise Primary and Nursery School attended 93.1% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 19.9% 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, 0.7% of pupils at Blaise Primary and Nursery 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 Blaise Primary and Nursery School had 22.0 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 12.7% 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, 18.8% of pupils at Blaise Primary and Nursery School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 5.0% 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 Blaise Primary and Nursery School received £7,767 and spent £7,184 for each of its 428 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £402,000 (£941 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 Blaise Primary and Nursery School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Blaise Primary and Nursery School is Good, from an inspection in March 2025.

When was Blaise Primary and Nursery School last inspected by Ofsted?

Blaise Primary and Nursery School was last inspected in March 2025.

How many pupils does Blaise Primary and Nursery School have?

Blaise Primary and Nursery School has 441 pupils on roll.

What age range does Blaise Primary and Nursery School cover?

Blaise Primary and Nursery School for pupils aged 3 to 11.

What are Blaise Primary and Nursery School's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 67% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Blaise Primary and Nursery School?

Blaise Primary and Nursery School is at Clavell Road, Henbury, Bristol, Bristol, BS10 7EJ.