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Best secondary schools in Bristol, City of

19 of 23 secondary schools ranked by Progress 8 · all Bristol, City of schools · primary schools

Ranked on Progress 8, 2023/24 — the most recent year each school has published. Official data, not our opinion — but the ranking is only as good as the measure, and a single number never describes a school. We hold real catchment boundaries for 14 of them.

# School Progress 8 Ofsted Places Catchment
1 Redland Green School Bristol 0.59 Good declining oversubscribed 1.5 first prefs per place, 2026/27 mapped
2 Bristol Cathedral Choir School Bristol 0.55 Good oversubscribed 1.52 first prefs per place, 2026/27 approximate
3 Bristol Metropolitan Academy Bristol 0.54 Good about even 1.13 first prefs per place, 2026/27 mapped
4 Trinity Academy Bristol 0.53 Good oversubscribed 1.25 first prefs per place, 2026/27 mapped
5 Bristol Free School Bristol 0.43 Good oversubscribed 1.38 first prefs per place, 2026/27 mapped
6 St Bede's Catholic College Bristol 0.38 Good oversubscribed 1.23 first prefs per place, 2026/27 approximate
7 Ashton Park School Bristol 0.31 Good oversubscribed 1.19 first prefs per place, 2026/27 mapped
8 Fairfield High School Bristol hidden gem 0.25 Good undersubscribed 0.73 first prefs per place, 2026/27 mapped
9 Bristol Brunel Academy Bristol 0.24 Good about even 1.1 first prefs per place, 2026/27 mapped
10 St Mary Redcliffe and Temple School Bristol 0.24 Not judged improving oversubscribed 1.34 first prefs per place, 2026/27 approximate
11 Cotham School Bristol hidden gem 0.1 Good undersubscribed 0.65 first prefs per place, 2026/27 mapped
12 The City Academy Bristol Bristol hidden gem 0.07 Good undersubscribed 0.73 first prefs per place, 2026/27 mapped
13 Oasis Academy Brislington Bristol hidden gem -0.29 Good about even 0.91 first prefs per place, 2026/27 approximate
14 Bedminster Down School Bristol -0.3 Not judged improving undersubscribed 0.77 first prefs per place, 2026/27 mapped
15 Blaise High School Bristol hidden gem -0.3 Good undersubscribed 0.64 first prefs per place, 2026/27 approximate
16 Orchard School Bristol Bristol hidden gem -0.31 Good improving undersubscribed 0.69 first prefs per place, 2026/27 mapped
17 St Bernadette Catholic Secondary School Bristol -0.32 Good improving oversubscribed 1.21 first prefs per place, 2026/27 approximate
18 Oasis Academy John Williams Bristol hidden gem -0.37 Good about even 0.86 first prefs per place, 2026/27 mapped
19 Oasis Academy Brightstowe Bristol -1.01 Not judged undersubscribed 0.79 first prefs per place, 2026/27 approximate

Also in Bristol, City of

4 further secondary schools with no published Progress 8 for the latest year — usually too small a cohort to report, newly opened, or a special school. Listed because leaving them out would make this a misleading picture of Bristol, City of, not a fairer one.

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