Cadbury Heath Primary School

Cadbury Heath Primary School is performing well overall, with a particularly strong early years provision and secure practice across the rest of the school. Children get an excellent start in early years because of expert teaching, an ambitious curriculum and tailored support. Safeguarding standards are met, and pupils feel safe in a calm, positive environment. Leaders have driven significant improvement since the school joined The Leaf Trust, tackling legacy underachievement and raising outcomes. KS2 results in reading, writing and mathematics rose considerably in 2025 and are now broadly in line with national averages, while phonics results are well above average. Attendance is consistently good, behaviour has improved, and SEND provision is stronger. However, the wider curriculum is not yet consistently high quality, some tasks are too complex for pupils including those with SEND, and pupils need to develop greater resilience and self-discipline. The school is a small primary in The Leaf Trust, which it joined in 2023, and the headteacher took up post in 2024. The predecessor school was graded requires improvement in 2020, so the current positive direction of travel represents a substantial turnaround. Parents speak highly of leaders’ accessibility and communication, and staff feel supported and proud to work at the school.

Strengths

• Early years provision is exceptionally strong, with expert staff and a rich, ambitious curriculum.
• Children leave early years as articulate, confident and well-rounded individuals.
• Phonics teaching is a strength and screening results are well above national averages.
• KS2 outcomes rose considerably in 2025 and are broadly in line with national averages overall.
• Attendance is at or above national averages over a sustained period, including for disadvantaged pupils and those with SEND.
• Behaviour has improved markedly, with calm, purposeful lessons and rare incidents of bullying.
• Leaders have a clear vision and have addressed school weaknesses at pace.
• Trust support has been substantial and well received, and staff feel their workload and wellbeing are considered.
• SEND provision is stronger, with early identification and precise, measurable targets.
• Pupils benefit from a wide range of trips, clubs and leadership roles that build confidence and responsibility.
• Parents and carers speak positively about the school and value leaders’ communication and accessibility.
• Disadvantaged pupils achieve broadly in line with their peers nationally.

Areas for Improvement

• The curriculum in some wider subjects is not yet ambitious or consistently high quality, so pupils’ knowledge is not deep in those areas.
• Teaching is sometimes too complex, including for pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities, so tasks are not always precisely matched to what pupils know and can do.
• Some pupils need to develop greater self-discipline, resilience and dedication to their learning across all aspects of school life.
• The analysis of additional funding for disadvantaged pupils is not always precise enough to shape future plans sharply.
• Pupils’ learning in a few personal development topics is not as deep as leaders intend, reflecting historical inconsistencies in teaching.
• Training to develop leadership capacity at all levels is at an earlier stage of implementation.
• Reading outcomes at the end of key stage 2 were below national averages in 2024/25, even though overall combined outcomes were close to average.

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 Cadbury Heath Primary School attended 95.0% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 11.2% 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, 4.2% of pupils at Cadbury Heath 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 Cadbury Heath Primary School had 20.0 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 13.0% 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, 11.8% of pupils at Cadbury Heath 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 2024–25 Cadbury Heath Primary School received £9,383 and spent £7,372 for each of its 168 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £33,000 (£196 per pupil).

Across all 14 schools of The Leaf Trust, income was £6,841 and spending £6,882 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 · South Gloucestershire local authority: places and applications

Cadbury Heath Primary School is part of The Leaf Trust, which runs 18 schools. The nearest others:

• St Barnabas Church of England Primary School Bristol
• Hanham Abbots Junior School Bristol
• Samuel White's Infant School Bristol
• Kings' Forest Primary School Bristol
• Two Mile Hill Primary School Bristol
• The Tynings Primary School Staple Hill
• Staple Hill Primary School Bristol
• Mangotsfield Church of England Primary School Bristol
• Stanbridge Primary School Bristol
• Emersons Green Primary School Bristol

What is Cadbury Heath Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Cadbury Heath Primary School is Expected standard, from an inspection in July 2026.

When was Cadbury Heath Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Cadbury Heath Primary School was last inspected in July 2026.

How many pupils does Cadbury Heath Primary School have?

Cadbury Heath Primary School has 153 pupils on roll.

What age range does Cadbury Heath Primary School cover?

Cadbury Heath Primary School for pupils aged 4 to 11.

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

In 2025, 57% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Cadbury Heath Primary School?

Cadbury Heath Primary School is at Lintern Crescent, Warmley, Bristol, South Gloucestershire, BS30 8GB.