Emersons Green Primary School

Emersons Green Primary School is performing at a high level overall. Safeguarding standards are met, and the school is exceptional for inclusion while reaching strong standards in achievement, attendance and behaviour, curriculum and teaching, early years, leadership and governance, and personal development and wellbeing. The school has a highly inclusive culture, effective support for pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities, and an impressive resourced provision for visual impairment and physical disabilities. Pupils achieve well, attendance is above the national average, persistent absence is below the national average, and behaviour is calm and positive. The school is part of the Leaf Trust and benefits from strong leadership, governance, staff development and positive parental support.

Strengths

• Exceptional inclusive culture, with pupils actively helping and including others.
• Highly effective identification of pupils' varied needs and rapid removal of barriers to learning and wellbeing.
• Pupils with SEND learn very effectively alongside their peers, with adaptations such as large print and Braille.
• Impressive specially resourced provision for visual impairment and physical disabilities, including specialist therapies and full participation in school life.
• High achievement, with pupils developing strong foundational skills in reading, writing, mathematics and oracy.
• Reading outcomes above national averages and a strong reading culture.
• Attendance above the national average and persistent absence below the national average.
• Calm, positive behaviour and rare bullying, underpinned by clear routines and school values.
• Broad, ambitious curriculum that is well monitored and adjusted, with particularly effective mathematics teaching.
• Strong early years provision with excellent transition, rapid reading development and good preparation for Year 1.
• Effective leadership and governance through the Leaf Trust, with high-quality staff development and support.
• Thoughtful personal development, pupil leadership and a wide range of inclusive extra-curricular activities.
• Strong pastoral support and positive relationships that help pupils feel safe, happy and included.

Areas for Improvement

• Highly effective assessment is not yet consistently used to inform teaching across all aspects of learning.

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 Emersons Green Primary School attended 95.7% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 9.5% 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 Emersons Green 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 Emersons Green Primary School had 21.1 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 0.0% 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, 12.1% of pupils at Emersons Green Primary School were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 10.6% had an education, health and care (EHC) plan (nationally 4.1%).

The school has resourced provision with 2 pupils.

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 Emersons Green Primary School received £8,122 and spent £8,479 for each of its 207 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £41,000 (£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

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

• Mangotsfield Church of England Primary School Bristol
• Stanbridge Primary School Bristol
• Blackhorse Primary School Bristol
• The Tynings Primary School Staple Hill
• Staple Hill Primary School Bristol
• Kings' Forest Primary School Bristol
• Two Mile Hill Primary School Bristol
• Cadbury Heath Primary School Bristol
• St Barnabas Church of England Primary School Bristol
• Hanham Abbots Junior School Bristol

What is Emersons Green Primary School's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Emersons Green Primary School is Strong standard, from an inspection in September 2026.

When was Emersons Green Primary School last inspected by Ofsted?

Emersons Green Primary School was last inspected in September 2026.

How many pupils does Emersons Green Primary School have?

Emersons Green Primary School has 207 pupils on roll.

What age range does Emersons Green Primary School cover?

Emersons Green Primary School for pupils aged 4 to 11.

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

In 2025, 72% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Emersons Green Primary School?

Emersons Green Primary School is at Guest Avenue, Emersons Green, Bristol, BS16 7GA.