Beechen Cliff School
Secondary · Academy converter · Ages 11–18 · Bath, Bath and North East Somerset
Last distance offered · Year 7 2026
1.483 miles
Category E · Published by Bath and North East Somerset Council · offers on 2 March 2026
2018–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Beechen Cliff School is a secondary school in Bath, Bath and North East Somerset for ages 11–18 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 21 September 2023. Bath and North East Somerset has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2018 to 2026 entry.
Beechen Cliff 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 | 1.483 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 |
| Year 7 2019 | 🔒 With a pass |
And 1 earlier figure.
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- For Year 7 2026 there were 256 first-choice applications for 172 offers: 1.5 first choices per offer, the highest of 12 Bath and North East Somerset secondary schools.
- In Year 7 2026, 165 offers went to first-choice families and 91 first-choice families (36%) were not offered a place.
- In 2026 the last child offered a Year 7 place under one of its admission criteria lived 1.483 miles away, the shortest of the 9 years with a published distance.
- In 2024/25, 65% got grade 5 or above in GCSE English and maths (England 45%), and the average A level grade was B (England B-).
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Bath and North East Somerset schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Kipling Avenue, Bath, BA2 4RE
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–18
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Bath and North East Somerset
- Pupils on roll
- 1,232 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 9.4% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 19.7
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 21 September 2023
Strengths
- “Respect is central to the school’s ethos.”
- “Pupils sign up to the ‘Beechen Cliff Charter’ which sets out the importance of equality and diversity.”
- “The school aims to give everyone the same opportunities and rights.”
To improve
- “However, some pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) struggle to follow the curriculum.”
- “This is also the case for pupils with additional needs, such as those with significant gaps in their reading or language skills.”
- “Teaching does not consistently support these pupils to learn the subject curriculums well.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 9 November 2023 (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) | 65% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 55 | 46 |
| A level average grade (2024/25) | B | 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: 256 first-preference applications, 172 offers in total, 165 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 Bath and North East Somerset.
- Hayesfield Girls School 0.6 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Ralph Allen School 1.5 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Saint Gregory's Catholic College 1.6 mi Good Last distance published
- St Mark's CofE School 1.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Oldfield School 2.4 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Wellsway School 6.1 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- IKB Academy 6.1 mi Good
- Writhlington School 6.6 mi Good Last distance published