St Bede's Catholic College
Bristol, BS11 0SU · Bristol, City of local authority
Bristol’s School Grade B− better than 47% of towns in England
What stands out about St Bede's Catholic College
- Its own letter, B+: GCSE results better than 71% of England’s secondary schools
- Over capacity: 1,324 pupils for 1,208 places
- 13% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (fewer than England’s 30%)
- Ofsted report card, January 2026: achievement expected standard, safeguarding met (shown, not graded)
- 78% of families who put it first got a place for September 2026 (197 of 251)
- Progress 8 of +0.38 in 2023/24, the last year DfE published it: pupils did better at GCSE than pupils nationally with the same results at 11
- Homes in its postcode sector (BS11 0) sold for a median £280,000; Bristol’s is £352,000
Results
DfE · GCSEs 2025/26, provisional · 205 pupilsEach bar is a group of England’s 3,224 graded secondary schools. The schools St Bede's Catholic College beats are shaded green.
Attainment 8 51.8
Average grade across 8 GCSEs ×10 · higher than 76% of schools · Bristol, City of avg 46
Grade 5+ in English and maths 52%
A strong pass · higher than 66% of schools · Bristol, City of avg 44%
Attainment 8, three years
The mark is England’s average that year
Progress 8, 2023/24
+0.38: above average. How pupils did at GCSE against pupils nationally with the same results at 11. Not published since 2023/24 (no Key Stage 2 tests in 2020 and 2021).
Disadvantaged pupils, 2025/26
Attainment 8 for the 30 pupils DfE counts as disadvantaged (free school meals in the last 6 years, or looked after) and the rest, beside England’s schools
England’s figures are of its graded mainstream state schools, each school counted once; grammar schools are included, which is why the right-hand tail is long. Small cohorts are suppressed.
How hard is it to get a place at St Bede's Catholic College?
78% of the families who put it first got a place for September 2026.
Years when some first choices missed out: 2019 (48), 2020 (52), 2021 (68), 2022 (49), 2023 (40), 2024 (87), 2025 (52), 2026 (54). The council runs the coordinated admissions; each school’s rules (siblings, distance, faith) decide who gets in. DfE doesn’t publish the furthest distance offered, so check the council’s admissions booklet for that. St Bede'S Catholic College sets the admissions rules. Apply through Bristol, City of council’s coordinated admissions.
Outline = places offered · green = families who put it first · striped = more first choices than places · the 10 most in demand
78% got their first choice
Bristol and Bristol, City of, side by side
2025/26All 22 graded secondaries in Bristol, City of. Schools with more pupils on free school meals usually score lower, so a school above the crowd for its free school meals is doing better than its intake predicts. Bristol’s schools are coloured by their letter.
Show as a table
| School | Letter | Free school meals | Attainment 8 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bristol Free School | A | 14% | 59.3 |
| Redland Green School | A | 8% | 57.9 |
| E-ACT Montpelier High School | A | 33% | 57.6 |
| Bristol Cathedral Choir School | A− | 28% | 53.5 |
| St Mary Redcliffe and Temple School | A− | 24% | 52.6 |
| St Bede's Catholic College | B+ | 13% | 51.8 |
| Trinity Academy | B+ | 34% | 50.4 |
| Cotham School | B | 40% | 49.1 |
| Bristol Metropolitan Academy | B | 31% | 48.4 |
| Ashton Park School | B | 24% | 48 |
| Fairfield High School | B | 34% | 47.3 |
| Oasis Academy John Williams | B− | 45% | 46 |
| Blaise High School | C+ | 45% | 45.7 |
| Bristol Brunel Academy | C+ | 36% | 44.1 |
| St Bernadette Catholic Secondary School | C | 27% | 43.5 |
| Oasis Academy Brislington | C | 31% | 42.6 |
| Orchard School Bristol | C | 44% | 41.5 |
| The City Academy Bristol | C− | 48% | 38.5 |
| Bedminster Down School | D | 38% | 37 |
| Oasis Academy Brightstowe | D− | 49% | 33.7 |
| Bridge Learning Campus | D− | 58% | 33.4 |
| E-ACT Bristol Academy South | D− | 66% | 30.4 |
Who goes here
DfE school census, January 20251,315 pupils. SEN support is extra help in school for a special educational need; an EHC plan is the council’s legal plan for pupils who need more.
Girls and boys
St Bede's Catholic College’s letter
Its own results against England’s schools, not the town’s School Grade.
How school letters are worked out
Each school’s measure is compared with every graded school in England of the same phase: for primaries, the share of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (DfE’s three-year average); for secondaries, Attainment 8 and the share with grade 5 or above in English and maths, each turned into a z-score against England’s schools and averaged. The letter comes from the share of those schools it beats, in the same bands as every grade on the site. The same method gives U.S. schools their letters, against their own state.
Graded: England’s open mainstream state schools with published results (grammar schools included, which select by test). Not graded: special schools, alternative provision, nurseries, 16–19 colleges, UTCs and studio schools, Welsh schools. Ofsted plays no part.
Ofsted inspections
Shown, not graded: Ofsted is never part of a letter or the School Grade.
Report card, inspection starting January 2026.
Before the report card: Ungraded inspection: School remains Good, October 2021.
Living near St Bede's Catholic College
For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.
Home prices in BS11 0, the school’s postcode sector
Bristol property prices →Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025
By type, the 36 months to August 2026
Homes in BS11 0 sell for well under Bristol’s typical price. HM Land Registry Price Paid, standard sales. Catchments aren’t published, so the postcode sector stands in for “around the school”.
Schools within 1.6 miles
11 state schoolsLocation
Directions ↗Bristol, BS11 0SU
St Bede's Catholic College: common questions
Is St Bede's Catholic College a good school?
By its published results, above average: its GCSE results are better than 71% of England’s secondary schools (its letter is B+), with an Attainment 8 of 51.8 and 52% getting grade 5 or above in English and maths, against 47.3 and 47% for England’s schools. Ofsted: a report card in January 2026.
How hard is it to get into St Bede's Catholic College?
For September 2026, 251 families put St Bede's Catholic College first and 197 of them were offered a place; 204 places were offered in all.
What is St Bede's Catholic College’s Ofsted rating?
Its latest inspection (January 2026) gave a report card: achievement expected standard, safeguarding met. Ofsted stopped giving one-word overall grades in September 2024.
How much do houses cost near St Bede's Catholic College?
Homes in its postcode sector, BS11 0, sold for a median £280,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (246 sales).
Sources: DfE Get Information about Schools (16 October 2026), Key Stage 2 performance tables (2023–2025, three-year average) and Key Stage 4 (2025/26, provisional); Ofsted state-funded school inspections as at 30 September 2026. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Also: DfE Key Stage 4 performance, schools data (2023/24 and 2024/25 final, 2025/26 provisional) and Key Stage 2 performance tables 2024/25 by subject; DfE school census, January 2025; DfE school-level applications and offers, September 2019 to 2026 entry; HM Land Registry Price Paid by postcode sector, 2010 to August 2026.
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