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St Anne's Infant School

Foundation school in Bristol, BS4 3QJ, taking ages 3 to 7, 187 on roll.

Good Ofsted, Feb 2023
0.57 mi Admitted from, latest published year
104% Full, over capacity

Will an address get in?

In the latest published round, the furthest child offered a place lived 0.57 miles away.

Applying for September 2027? Primary applications close 15 January 2027; offers on 16 April 2027.

The circle is 0.57 miles, the distance the school admitted from in the latest published year.

St Anne's Infant School: 0.57 miles West Town Lane Academy: 0.73 miles, published by Bristol, City of

This is not a catchment area. 0.57 miles was last year's outcome, not a boundary and not a promise.
How to read this

Most English schools do not have a catchment area. When St Anne's Infant School is oversubscribed, places go outward from the school until they run out, so the distance moves each year with how many families applied and where they lived.

Distances are measured from the postcode's centre, not a front door; a postcode covers a few houses. Siblings, looked-after children come before distance, so a school can fill before distance counts at all.

Real admission areas are not circular: the circle is the distance, not a boundary.

The address on the closing date is the one the council uses. How admissions work.

Source: Bristol, City of, published admission distances

Where St Anne's Infant School and West Town Lane Academy are both in reach

Both distances are drawn on the map above. West Town Lane Academy admitted from 0.73 miles in the latest published year, published by Bristol, City of. Its own page has the rest of its figures.

No postcode district has its centre inside both distances. The two schools admit from 0.57 and 0.73 miles, and the ground those circles share holds no district centre, which is a fact about where the centres fall rather than about any one address. The map above shows both, and the postcode checker answers for both.

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Drop West Town Lane Academy and go back to one school.

If the answer is no, you can appeal. In Bristol, City of, 64 of 218 secondary appeals succeeded in 2025 (29.4%; England 19.9%), counted for all the council's schools together. How every council compares.

Other schools nearby with a published distance

The closest schools to St Anne's Infant School that also have a council-published admission distance, nearest first.

SchoolPhaseAdmitted fromAway
Redfield Educate Together Primary Academy Both in reach Primary 0.61 mi 0.8 mi
Summerhill Infant School Both in reach Primary 0.44 mi 1.0 mi
Air Balloon Hill Primary School Both in reach Primary 0.56 mi 1.2 mi
Whitehall Primary School Both in reach Primary 0.33 mi 1.2 mi
Hannah More Primary School Both in reach Primary 0.28 mi 1.3 mi
West Town Lane Academy Both in reach Primary 0.73 mi 1.4 mi

The distance as a picture

St Anne's Infant School catchment area map: the 0.57 mile admission distance
Drawn to scale from the published figure. Save the picture, or share this page and this is the card that appears.

What kind of school this is

Religious characterNo religious character
Sixth formDoes not have a sixth form
How full 187 pupils in 180 places (104% full, over capacity)
TrustSouth East Bristol Educational Trust
Local authorityBristol, City of

Department for Education register (GIAS).

How the school is doing

Ofsted Good, inspected 08 February 2023

Ofsted, and the Department for Education's published performance data.

Who goes to St Anne's Infant School

Girls and boys54.0% girls, 46.0% boys
English as an additional language12.8% of pupils
Free school meals25.1% of pupils eligible

DfE school census, most recent published year.

Getting to St Anne's Infant School by bus

Best-served stop: First Avenue, 0.2 mi away, with 3.4 buses an hour on weekday daytimes; first bus 05:37, last 22:55.

Every stop within 600 m
StopFrom the schoolWeekday daytime, an hourEveningSundayRoutes
Collin Road0.2 mi1.60.21.736
Wick Road0.2 mi1.81.51.45
Collin Road0.2 mi1.50.81.836

These are scheduled departures, not buses observed running. Two stops on opposite sides of a road are two rows.

Source: operators' timetables on the Bus Open Data Service (Department for Transport), week of 8 Sep 2026

The fee-paying alternative

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Checking the house as well as the school

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Common questions

What is the catchment area for St Anne's Infant School?

St Anne's Infant School does not have one in the sense most people mean. Like most English schools, an oversubscribed year offers places outward from the school until they run out. The nearest thing to an answer: the furthest child admitted in the latest published year lived 0.57 miles away, per Bristol, City of.

How close do I need to live to get a place at St Anne's Infant School?

Nobody can say in advance, and anyone who does is guessing. 0.57 miles was enough in the latest published year, and at 104% full the school has little slack. The distance moves every year with the number of applications, so treat last year's figure as evidence, not a promise.

Does buying a house near St Anne's Infant School guarantee a place?

No. Admission criteria usually put looked-after children, siblings ahead of distance, so places can be filled before distance is reached. Councils also check that the address is genuinely where the child lives.

Every Bristol, City of school's distance

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Admission distance published by Bristol, City of. School details from the Department for Education's register, ratings from Ofsted. Read how every figure on this site is sourced on the methodology page. If something here looks wrong, tell us and it goes on the accuracy log.