Ashton Park School
Academy sponsor led · sixth form · 1,272 pupils
84% stayed in education · Attainment 8 45.8
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Bedminster Down School
- Pupils on roll
- 1,022of 1,080 places
- Free school meals
- 38.4%
- Year 11 cohort 2025
- 181
- Ofsted
- School remains Good (Concerns) - S5 Next, 4 February 2025Read the Ofsted report
Results below include those reported under the school’s previous registration: Bedminster Down School (URN 109283, until 1 June 2012).
What the data says
Bedminster Down School has no sixth form. Of the 202 pupils who finished Year 11 there in 2023, 16% moved to a sixth form college, 41% to a further education college and 15% started an apprenticeship.
Apprenticeships are a real route from here: 15% of leavers started one, roughly three times the England figure of 3%.
Photography is unusually popular at GCSE: 43% of the year group took it, against 6% of pupils across England.
10% of leavers were not in sustained education, employment or training six months on, compared with 6% nationally.
Where pupils went after Year 11
Destinations of the 2023 Year 11 leavers, measured the following year: the share in a sustained place for at least two terms. Compared with all state-funded schools in Bristol, City of and England.
School sixth formSixth form collegeFurther education collegeOther educationApprenticeshipEmploymentNo sustained destination
| Measure | Bedminster Down School | Bristol, City of | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils in the cohort | 202 | 4,008 | 607,348 |
| Any sustained destination | 85% | 90% | 92% |
| Stayed in education | 66% | 84% | 86% |
| — school sixth form | 9% | 40% | 34% |
| — sixth form college | 16% | 12% | 13% |
| — further education college | 41% | 30% | 37% |
| — other education | 0% | 3% | 2% |
| Apprenticeship | 15% | 3% | 3% |
| Employment | 4% | 3% | 3% |
| No sustained destination | 10% | 6% | 6% |
| Destination unknown | 4% | 3% | 3% |
GCSE results 2025
| Measure | Bedminster Down School | Bristol, City of | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Attainment 8 (average points per pupil) | 41.7 | 46.4 | 46.1 |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 39% | 46% | 45% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 61% | 65% | 65% |
| Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects | 3% | 36% | 41% |
| EBacc average point score | 3.30 | 4.10 | 4.09 |
| Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort | 39% | 33% | 28% |
| Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils | 35.6 | 33.8 | 34.9 |
| Attainment 8 — other pupils | 45.7 | 52.5 | 50.4 |
| Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2) | — | — | — |
| English as an additional language | 7% | 20% | 19% |
Progress 8 is not available for 2025 and 2026: these cohorts had no Key Stage 2 tests in 2020 and 2021, so there is no baseline. Attainment 8 shows results without taking pupils’ starting points into account.
Subjects taken at GCSE
Entries in 2025 as a share of the Year 11 cohort, and the share of entries graded 7–9 and 4–9, compared with all entries in England.
| Subject | Entries | Share of cohort | England | Grades 7–9 | England | Grades 4–9 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language | 177 | 98% | 89% | 16% | 20% | 72% |
| Mathematics | 177 | 98% | 88% | 13% | 22% | 63% |
| English Literature | 175 | 97% | 86% | 9% | 21% | 78% |
| Combined Science | 145 | 80% | 65% | 3% | 9% | 39% |
| History | 127 | 70% | 41% | 10% | 26% | 44% |
| Photography | 78 | 43% | 6% | 17% | 19% | 96% |
| Geography | 73 | 40% | 41% | 5% | 25% | 38% |
| Art and Design | 35 | 19% | 7% | 23% | 24% | 80% |
| Chemistry | 29 | 16% | 23% | 31% | 47% | 86% |
| Biology | 29 | 16% | 23% | 24% | 45% | 93% |
| Physics | 29 | 16% | 23% | 28% | 46% | 93% |
| Religious Studies | 22 | 12% | 31% | 27% | 32% | 64% |
| Computer Science | 21 | 12% | 13% | 10% | 30% | 38% |
| French | 5 | 3% | 18% | — | 29% | — |
| Polish | 2 | 1% | 1% | — | 84% | — |
| Turkish | 1 | 1% | 0% | — | 71% | — |
Technical awards and other Key Stage 4 qualifications
| Subject | Entries | Share of cohort | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Engineering Studies | 65 | — | — |
| Personal Health | 57 | — | — |
| Health Studies | 38 | — | — |
| Childcare Skills | 36 | — | — |
| Hospitality / Catering Studies | 32 | — | — |
| Computer Appreciation / Introduction | 32 | — | — |
| Dance: General | 16 | — | — |
| Speech and Drama | 16 | — | — |
| Music performance: Group | 9 | — | — |
Other secondary schools in Bristol, City of
Blaise High School
Academy sponsor led · sixth form · 914 pupils
73% stayed in education · Attainment 8 45.0
Bridge Learning Campus
Academy sponsor led · 1,202 pupils
73% stayed in education · Attainment 8 34.6
Bristol Brunel Academy
Academy sponsor led · sixth form · 1,267 pupils
85% stayed in education · Attainment 8 43.6
Bristol Cathedral Choir School
Academy sponsor led · sixth form · 1,192 pupils
94% stayed in education · Attainment 8 54.6
Bristol Free School
Free schools · sixth form · 1,304 pupils
91% stayed in education · Attainment 8 56.3
Sources: Department for Education school and college performance tables 2024/2025 (Key Stage 4 and 16–18 results, subject entries, destination measures for 2023 leavers); Get Information About Schools register as at 19 September 2026; Ofsted management information as at 31 August 2026. Small numbers are suppressed by DfE and shown as “—”. How to read these figures.