How far do you need to live from a school in Bristol, City of to get a place?

It depends on the school. Across the 46 Bristol, City of schools with a published figure, the last child admitted lived a median of 0.73 miles away; the tightest was Hannah More Primary School at 0.28 miles. The distance moves every year with demand.

Do Bristol, City of schools have catchment areas?

Most English schools do not. When a school is oversubscribed, places are offered outward from the school until they run out, so what exists is how far the last admitted child lived, which the council publishes after each round. That is the figure on this page.

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How far Bristol, City of schools admitted from

For every oversubscribed school, Bristol, City of publishes how far away the last child offered a place lived. This is that figure for 46 schools, tightest first. A short distance means a school that fills up close to its gates; a long one means places went further afield.

46schools with a published figure

0.73 mithe middle school's distance

31filled within a mile

The tightest is Hannah More Primary School at 0.28 miles in varies; the most far-reaching, St Bonaventure's Catholic Primary School, admitted from 5.03 miles.

Primary schools

School	Ofsted	Admitted from	Round	How full
Hannah More Primary School Bristol	No current grade	0.28 mi	varies	86%
Victoria Park Primary School Bristol	No current grade	0.29 mi	varies	98%
Ashton Vale Primary School Bristol	No current grade	0.3 mi	varies	70%
Whitehall Primary School Bristol	Good	0.33 mi	varies	96%
Ashley Down Primary School Bristol	No current grade	0.35 mi	varies	95%
Summerhill Infant School Bristol	No current grade	0.44 mi	varies	96%
Brentry Primary School Bristol	Good	0.45 mi	varies	97%
St Mary Redcliffe Church of England Primary School Bristol	Good	0.47 mi	varies	89%
Avanti Gardens School Bristol	Good	0.48 mi	varies	91%
St Bernard's Catholic Primary School BRISTOL	No current grade	0.49 mi	varies	96%
Air Balloon Hill Primary School Bristol	No current grade	0.56 mi	varies	94%
Stoke Park Primary School Bristol	Good	0.56 mi	varies	102%
Upper Horfield Primary School Bristol	Requires improvement	0.56 mi	varies	88%
St Anne's Infant School Bristol	Good	0.58 mi	varies	104%
Frome Vale Academy Bristol	Outstanding	0.6 mi	varies	97%
Redfield Educate Together Primary Academy Bristol	Requires improvement	0.61 mi	varies	71%
Waycroft Academy Bristol	Good	0.61 mi	varies	97%
Little Mead Primary Academy Bristol	Requires improvement	0.62 mi	varies	104%
Two Mile Hill Primary School Bristol	Requires improvement	0.63 mi	varies	81%
Westbury-On-Trym Church of England Academy Bristol	No current grade	0.65 mi	varies	99%
Oasis Academy Marksbury Road Bedminster	No current grade	0.69 mi	varies	91%
St Werburgh's Primary School Bristol	Good	0.7 mi	varies	99%
West Town Lane Academy Bristol	No current grade	0.73 mi	varies	96%
Chester Park Infant School Bristol	No current grade	0.74 mi	varies	95%
Headley Park Primary School Bristol	No current grade	0.75 mi	varies	98%
Elmlea Infant School Bristol	Outstanding	0.85 mi	varies	100%
Fair Furlong Primary School Bristol	No current grade	0.85 mi	varies	108%
Shirehampton Primary School Bristol	No current grade	0.85 mi	varies	93%
Brunel Field Primary School Bristol	Good	0.86 mi	varies	95%
Sefton Park Infant School Bristol	Good	0.99 mi	varies	101%
Cheddar Grove Primary School Bristol	Good	1.02 mi	varies	91%
Oasis Academy New Oak Bristol	Good	1.06 mi	varies	86%
Oasis Academy Bank Leaze Bristol	No current grade	1.12 mi	varies	95%
Ashton Gate Primary School Bristol	Outstanding	1.14 mi	varies	92%
Wansdyke Primary School Bristol	Good	1.14 mi	varies	97%
Glenfrome Primary School Bristol	No current grade	1.16 mi	varies	97%
Knowle Park Primary School Bristol	No current grade	1.19 mi	varies	97%
Cathedral Primary School Bristol	No current grade	1.22 mi	varies	100%
Bridge Farm Primary School Bristol	Good	1.27 mi	varies	96%
Southville Primary School Bristol	No current grade	1.38 mi	varies	96%
Bishop Road Primary School Bristol	Outstanding	1.61 mi	varies	96%
E-Act St Ursula's Academy Bristol	Good	1.74 mi	varies	79%
Parson Street Primary School Bristol	Good	1.75 mi	varies	49%
Christ Church Church of England Primary School Bristol	Outstanding	2.86 mi	varies	79%
St Bonaventure's Catholic Primary School Bristol	No current grade	5.03 mi	varies	96%

Secondary schools

School	Ofsted	Admitted from	Round	How full
Bridge Learning Campus Bristol	Good	0.4 mi	varies	86%

Reading the numbers

These are not catchment areas: most English schools have none. Each figure is the distance from the school to the home of the furthest child who was offered a place under the distance criterion in that round, as Bristol, City of measures it, which is usually a straight line from a fixed point at the home to one at the school. Looked-after children, siblings and, at faith schools, faith criteria come before distance, so a school can fill before distance is reached at all. The figure moves every year with the number of applications. How the whole process works →

Checking an address against these

Each school's page has a checker that measures a postcode against that school's distance. The full property report measures every nearby school at once, alongside sold prices, flood risk and the rest of the house.

Admission distances published by Bristol, City of. School details and grades from the Department for Education's register and Ofsted. If a figure looks wrong, tell us and it goes on the accuracy log.