Lift Broadlands

Broadlands Academy is performing well, maintaining a good standard across various areas such as education quality, behaviour, personal development, and leadership. The school's leadership team has successfully implemented a new ambitious curriculum that helps students across all year groups to achieve highly, creating a positive atmosphere characterized by strong relationships among staff and pupils. Despite being a smaller-than-average secondary school, it offers a broad array of extracurricular activities that engage students beyond the standard curriculum. However, some students occasionally struggle to fully access the curriculum, which needs addressing to ensure all learners can reach their potential.

Strengths

• Strong subject knowledge among teachers
• Effective support for students with SEND
• Positive and supportive school culture
• Well-planned personal development curriculum
• Comprehensive careers guidance from Year 7
• Extensive extracurricular activities

Areas for Improvement

• Some pupils do not fully understand the curriculum
• A small number of pupils show intolerance towards differences
• Low attendance among some disadvantaged 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 Lift Broadlands attended 83.8% of sessions (the national figure for secondary schools was 91.6%). 39.5% of pupils were persistently absent, missing at least one session in ten (nationally 23.4%).

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, 22.4% of pupils at Lift Broadlands were suspended at least once (nationally 7.3%). 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 Lift Broadlands had 13.0 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for secondary schools was 16.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 15.4% were no longer at the school a year later (nationally 14.1%).

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, 12.4% of pupils at Lift Broadlands were on SEN support (nationally 14.1%) and 8.0% had an education, health and care (EHC) plan (nationally 3.5%).

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 secondary schools. Counts are as published, with small numbers not hidden.

In 2024–25 Lift Broadlands received £11,540 and spent £11,585 for each of its 363 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £291,000 (£803 per pupil).

Across all 59 schools of Lift Schools, income was £8,746 and spending £8,644 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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All schools in Bristol · Bath and North East Somerset local authority: places and applications

Lift Broadlands is part of Lift Schools, which runs 62 schools. The nearest others:

• Lift Offa's Mead Chepstow
• Lift Berkeley Berkeley
• Lift Cam Woodfield Junior Dursley
• Marling School Stroud
• Lift Callowell Stroud
• Lift Hazelwood Swindon
• Lift East Wichel Swindon
• Lift Brockworth Gloucester
• Lift Hillview Gloucester
• Lift Crescent View Cheltenham

What is Lift Broadlands's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Lift Broadlands is Good, from an inspection in June 2023.

When was Lift Broadlands last inspected by Ofsted?

Lift Broadlands was last inspected in June 2023.

How many pupils does Lift Broadlands have?

Lift Broadlands has 314 pupils on roll.

What age range does Lift Broadlands cover?

Lift Broadlands for pupils aged 11 to 16.

What are Lift Broadlands's GCSE results?

In 2026 its average Attainment 8 score was 43.8, and 53% of pupils achieved grade 5 or above in both English and maths GCSE.

Where is Lift Broadlands?

Lift Broadlands is at St Francis Road, Keynsham, Bristol, BS31 2DY.