Air Balloon Hill Primary School

Primary · Community school · Ages 4–11 · Bristol, Bristol, City of

Last distance offered · Reception 2026

0.56 miles

Published by Bristol City Council · offers on 16 April 2026

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Air Balloon Hill Primary School is a primary school in Bristol, Bristol, City of for ages 4–11 (community school). Its latest Ofsted outcome is School remains Good, from the inspection on 22 November 2023. Bristol, City of has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2020 to 2026 entry.

Air Balloon Hill Primary School catchment area: last distance offered

Parents often call this the catchment area: it's how far from the school the last child offered a place lived. It changes every year.

Entry	Last distance offered
Reception 2026	0.56 mi
Reception 2025	🔒 With a pass
Reception 2024	🔒 With a pass
Reception 2023	🔒 With a pass
Reception 2022	🔒 With a pass
Reception 2021	🔒 With a pass
Reception 2020	🔒 With a pass

What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment

What the figures show

For Reception 2026, the last child offered a place lived 0.56 miles away, nearer than in 2022 and 8th shortest of 26 Bristol primary schools with a published last distance.
Reception 2026 had 88 first-choice applications for 89 offers; 82 offers went to first-choice families, and 6 first-choice families (7%) were not offered a place.
In 2024/25, 60% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%) and 7% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
That 2024/25 figure of 60% was the 2nd highest of 7 schools: this one and the 6 of the 8 nearest primary schools in Bristol that have results.

Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Bristol, City of schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.

Key facts

Address: Hillside Road, St George, Bristol, BS5 7PB
Type: Community school
Phase: Primary
Ages: 4–11
Council: Bristol, City of
Pupils on roll: 788 January 2026 school census
Free school meals: 26.4% of pupils eligible
Pupils per teacher: 22

Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026

Ofsted

School remains Good Inspected 22 November 2023

Strengths

“Air Balloon Hill Primary School is a friendly, nurturing and welcoming school.”
“The school has created an atmosphere where ‘everyone can achieve, everyone can learn and everyone belongs’.”
“It has high aspirations for all pupils, as reflected in its vision that pupils should ‘look to the stars’.”

To improve

“However, some learning is not adapted quickly enough to enable some pupils to develop a deeper understanding.”
“As a result, these pupils do not build on their knowledge as well as they could.”
“This starts in the early years and continues into key stage 2.”

Safeguarding: Effective

Quoted from the Ofsted report published 16 January 2024 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Exam results

Measure	School	England
Key stage 2 · reading, writing and maths, expected standard (2024/25)	60%	62%

Department for Education school performance data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Applications and offers

2026 Reception entry: 88 first-preference applications, 89 offers in total, 82 offers to first-preference applicants.

Department for Education, school-level applications and offers, figures on national offer day. Earlier years are in the pass.

Nearby primary schools

Straight-line distance, in Bristol, City of.

Summerhill Infant School 0.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
Two Mile Hill Primary School 0.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
Summerhill Academy 0.5 mi No Ofsted grade
E-ACT the Kingfisher School 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
St Patrick's Catholic Primary School 1.0 mi Good Last distance published
Chester Park Junior School 1.0 mi School remains Good
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School 1.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published
Chester Park Infant School 1.1 mi Standards maintained Last distance published