Oasis Academy Bank Leaze

Oasis Academy Bank Leaze is a highly inclusive and welcoming primary school within the Oasis Community Learning trust, serving a community with high levels of disadvantage and special educational needs. Inspectors found strong standards in achievement, inclusion, leadership and governance, and personal development and well-being, with expected standards in attendance and behaviour, curriculum and teaching, and early years. Safeguarding standards are met, and the school has an open safeguarding culture. The school’s main strengths are its support for disadvantaged pupils and pupils with SEND, strong leadership and trustee oversight, and a rich personal development and pastoral offer. Disadvantaged pupils achieve well above national averages, staff value the school’s family feel and professional development, and pupils are polite, respectful and positive about learning. Leaders have managed significant changes since the last inspection, including the addition of two-year-old provision, effectively. There are still areas for improvement. Persistent absence is above the national average, although most pupils attend regularly and the school works closely with families. Teaching does not consistently deepen pupils’ knowledge or move them on to more complex work, which holds back a minority of pupils. In early years, staff do not always use interactions to extend children’s vocabulary, particularly for the most disadvantaged and vulnerable children.

Strengths

• Disadvantaged pupils achieve consistently well, with attainment above national averages in reading, writing and mathematics.
• Support for pupils with SEND and those receiving pupil premium funding is a significant strength.
• Leaders and trustees are highly ambitious and make decisions in pupils’ best interests.
• Trustees fulfil their statutory duties and robustly hold leaders to account.
• Staff benefit from a well-developed professional learning programme and value the school’s family feel.
• Personal development is integral, with strong pastoral care, clubs, arts and music opportunities.
• Pupils are polite, respectful, calm and positive about their learning.
• The curriculum is broad, well sequenced and focuses deliberately on foundational knowledge.
• Pupils, including those with low starting points or who speak English as an additional language, produce high-quality work.
• Early years staff build strong partnerships with families and help children settle quickly.
• The school has an open safeguarding culture and meets safeguarding standards.

Areas for Improvement

• Persistent absence is above the national average and remains a priority.
• Teaching does not consistently select activities that help pupils deepen knowledge and tackle more complex work.
• In early years, staff do not always use interactions to develop and extend children’s vocabulary, especially for disadvantaged and vulnerable children.
• A minority of pupils are hindered from making the accelerated progress they are capable of because teaching sometimes lacks depth.

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 Oasis Academy Bank Leaze attended 94.2% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 16.5% 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, 0.5% of pupils at Oasis Academy Bank Leaze 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 Oasis Academy Bank Leaze had 16.8 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 24.3% 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, 14.8% of pupils at Oasis Academy Bank Leaze were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 4.6% 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 2024–25 Oasis Academy Bank Leaze received £8,520 and spent £8,699 for each of its 200 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £175,000 (£877 per pupil).

Across all 56 schools of Oasis Community Learning, income was £9,249 and spending £9,031 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). Academy figures include a share of the trust's central services, shared out by pupil numbers, and are rounded to the nearest £1,000. Premises costs were defined differently from 2024, so compare them across that gap with care.

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Oasis Academy Bank Leaze is part of Oasis Community Learning, which runs 57 schools. The nearest others:

• Oasis Academy Long Cross Bristol
• Oasis Academy Brightstowe Bristol
• Oasis Academy Temple Quarter Bristol
• Oasis Academy Marksbury Road Bedminster
• Oasis Academy Daventry Road Bristol
• Oasis Academy Connaught Bristol
• Oasis Academy New Oak Bristol
• Oasis Academy John Williams Bristol
• Oasis Academy Brislington Bristol
• Oasis Academy Warndon Worcester

What is Oasis Academy Bank Leaze's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Oasis Academy Bank Leaze is Expected standard, from an inspection in January 2026.

When was Oasis Academy Bank Leaze last inspected by Ofsted?

Oasis Academy Bank Leaze was last inspected in January 2026.

How many pupils does Oasis Academy Bank Leaze have?

Oasis Academy Bank Leaze has 237 pupils on roll.

What age range does Oasis Academy Bank Leaze cover?

Oasis Academy Bank Leaze for pupils aged 2 to 11.

What are Oasis Academy Bank Leaze's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 81% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Oasis Academy Bank Leaze?

Oasis Academy Bank Leaze is at Corbet Close, Lawrence Weston, Bristol, BS11 0SN.