Mangotsfield School

About Mangotsfield School

Mangotsfield School is a mixed state secondary for 11 to 16 year olds in South Gloucestershire, currently led by headteacher Hetty Blackmore. With 1,158 pupils on roll against a capacity of 1,200, the school is running very close to full, and the demand for places is strong. For the 2025/26 admissions cycle, the school received 544 applications for 255 places, giving an oversubscription ratio of 2.13. Of those, 197 families put it as their first preference, and 191 first-preference offers were made. The proportion of pupils eligible for free school meals stands at 22.8 per cent, which is notably above the national average for secondary schools and suggests a catchment with higher-than-average levels of disadvantage. The school does not have a sixth form or nursery provision, and it is not a boarding school.

Academically, Mangotsfield’s most recent Ofsted inspection in March 2022 rated it Good across all categories, including quality of education, behaviour and attitudes, personal development, and leadership and management. This represents a clear improvement from its previous inspection in 2018, when it was rated Requires Improvement. At Key Stage 4, the school’s Progress 8 score is -0.3, which is below the South Gloucestershire local authority average of -0.25 and places it 13th out of 16 schools in the area. The Attainment 8 score is 42.2, and 58.8 per cent of pupils achieved a grade 4 or above in English and maths, though this drops to 35.1 per cent at grade 5 or above. The EBacc average point score is 3.77, with 43.1 per cent of pupils entering the EBacc combination of subjects. Nationally, Mangotsfield ranks in the bottom half of schools by Progress 8, sitting at the 72nd percentile.

The school offers a wide range of facilities, including a swimming pool, sports hall, gymnasium, playing fields, science labs, art studios, and an ICT suite. Sports provision covers football, hockey, netball, cricket, tennis, badminton, gymnastics, swimming, dance, and basketball, while extracurricular clubs include orchestra, choir, drama, debate, coding, chess, eco club, and a newspaper club. For pupils with additional needs, the school’s SEND provisions are extensive, covering specific learning difficulties such as dyslexia, moderate learning difficulty, social, emotional and mental health needs, speech and language communication needs, hearing and visual impairments, multi-sensory impairment, physical disability, and autistic spectrum disorder. Mangotsfield is a good fit for families in the South Gloucestershire area who want a large, oversubscribed school with strong demand, a broad extracurricular offer, and a clear record of improvement from its previous Requires Improvement rating.

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