Abbeywood Community School
Secondary · Academy sponsor led · Ages 11–19 · Bristol, South Gloucestershire
Last distance offered · Year 7 2026
1.535 miles
Published by the school · offers on 2 March 2026
2020–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Abbeywood Community School is a secondary school in Bristol, South Gloucestershire for ages 11–19 (academy sponsor led). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Not judged, from the inspection on 18 March 2025. South Gloucestershire and the school have published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2020 to 2026 entry.
Abbeywood Community 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 |
|---|---|
| Year 7 2026 | 1.535 mi |
| Year 7 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2023 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2022 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2021 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2020 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- The last child offered a Year 7 place for 2026 lived 1.535 miles from the school, nearer than in 2025 and further than in 2020.
- Last distances for Year 7 entry swung sharply between some years from 2020 to 2026.
- For Year 7 entry in 2026, there were 244 first-choice applications for 223 offers, 1.1 first choices per offer, the 2nd highest of 13 South Gloucestershire secondary schools.
- For Year 7 entry in 2026, 219 offers went to first-choice families and 25 first-choice families (10%) were not offered a place.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other South Gloucestershire schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- New Road, Stoke Gifford, Bristol, BS34 8SF
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–19
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- South Gloucestershire
- Pupils on roll
- 1,294 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 21.6% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 18.5
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Not judged Inspected 18 March 2025
Strengths
- “Pupils thrive at Abbeywood Community School.”
- “They value the warm, supportive relationships they have with members of staff.”
- “This helps pupils to engage with learning and achieve well.”
To improve
- “However, in a few areas, teachers do not address gaps in some pupils’ knowledge through adapting the teaching of the curriculum.”
- “Consequently, a minority of pupils do not learn some subjects as well as they could.”
- “However, some pupils in receipt of pupil premium funding do not attend as regularly as they should.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 12 May 2025 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Exam results
| Measure | School | England |
|---|---|---|
| GCSE English and maths, grade 5 or above (2024/25) | 46% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 46 | 46 |
| A level average grade (2024/25) | C+ | B- |
Department for Education school performance data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Year 7 entry: 244 first-preference applications, 223 offers in total, 219 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 secondary schools
Straight-line distance, in South Gloucestershire.
- Patchway Community School 2.1 mi Not judged
- Winterbourne Academy 2.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Downend School 2.9 mi Standards maintained
- Mangotsfield School 3.7 mi No Ofsted grade
- John Cabot Academy 4.1 mi Not judged
- Lyde Green Community School 4.1 mi No Ofsted grade
- Digitech Studio School 4.9 mi No Ofsted grade
- Hanham Woods Academy 5.0 mi Standards maintained