Golden Valley Primary School
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 4–11 · Bristol, North Somerset
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
6.767 miles
Published by North Somerset Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2015–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Golden Valley Primary School is a primary school in Bristol, North Somerset for ages 4–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Not judged, from the inspection on 7 May 2025. North Somerset has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2015 to 2026 entry.
Golden Valley 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 | 6.767 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 |
| Reception 2019 | 🔒 With a pass |
And 4 earlier figures.
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- The last child offered a Reception place in 2026 lived 6.767 miles away, the longest of 13 North Somerset primary schools with a published last distance (middle figure 1.18 miles).
- Every applicant was offered a place in 7 of the 12 years with a published outcome, and Reception's 2026 last distance was the longest of the 5 published years.
- Reception 2026 had 59 first-choice applications for 59 offers; 57 went to first-choice families and 2 first-choice families (3%) were not offered a place.
- In 2024/25, 81% of pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of primary school (England 62%); 7% reached the higher standard (England 8%).
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other North Somerset schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Nailsea Park, Nailsea, Bristol, BS48 1BB
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4–11
- Council
- North Somerset
- Pupils on roll
- 401 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 8.7% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 21.5
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Not judged Inspected 7 May 2025
Strengths
- “Golden Valley Primary is a vibrant and welcoming school.”
- “Staff are ambitious for pupils and have high expectations of them.”
- “Pupils rise to these expectations and achieve well, as exemplified in recent published outcomes.”
To improve
- “A minority of parents and carers have struggled to adjust to the changes that leaders have made.”
- “In some subjects where the curriculum is new, at times staff are not as successful in checking what pupils know and can do.”
- “On occasion, staff ask pupils to recall knowledge they have not been taught or ask them to complete tasks that are too complex.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 17 June 2025 (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) | 81% | 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: 59 first-preference applications, 59 offers in total, 57 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 North Somerset.
- St Francis Catholic Primary School 0.3 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Kingshill Church School 0.8 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Hannah More Infant School 0.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Grove Junior School 0.9 mi School remains Good
- West Leigh Infant School 1.2 mi Good Last distance published
- Backwell Church of England Junior School 1.7 mi Not judged
- Flax Bourton Church of England Primary School 1.9 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Tickenham Church of England Primary School 2.0 mi School remains Good Last distance published