St Mary Redcliffe and Temple School

About St Mary Redcliffe and Temple School

St Mary Redcliffe and Temple School holds a Good rating from its most recent Ofsted inspection in 2025, a change from the Outstanding grade it received in 2015. The inspection report, published in March 2025, judged the school Good across all graded areas: quality of education, behaviour and attitudes, personal development, leadership and management, and sixth-form provision. The most telling academic metric is the school’s Progress 8 score of 0.24, which is classified as ‘Above average’ nationally. This means that, on average, pupils achieve nearly a quarter of a grade more per subject than students with similar starting points across England. The school ranks 8th out of 20 secondary schools in the Bristol local authority on this measure, placing it in the top 40 per cent locally. Its Attainment 8 score sits at 51.7, and 71.8 per cent of pupils achieved a grade 4 or above in English and maths.

At Key Stage 5, the school’s 333 sixth-form students achieved an average of 35.91 points per entry, equivalent to a B- grade, with a value-added score of -0.06, which is rated as ‘Average’. The best three A-levels averaged a B- grade. The school’s EBacc average point score is 4.39, and 22.2 per cent of pupils entered the EBacc combination of subjects. In the 2023/24 academic year, 18.1 per cent achieved a grade 5 or above in English and maths, and 14.4 per cent reached the higher grade 5 threshold across both. The school’s Progress 8 score is well above the local authority average of 0, and it sits 81st out of 306 schools in the South West region, placing it in the top 27 per cent regionally.

The school is heavily oversubscribed: for 207 places in 2025/26, it received 681 applications, a ratio of 3.29 applicants per place, with 271 first-preference applications resulting in 190 offers. It is a Church of England secondary for pupils aged 11 to 18, with a capacity of 1,799 and currently 1,778 on roll. Twenty-two per cent of pupils are eligible for free school meals. Facilities include a swimming pool, theatre, chapel, sixth-form centre, astro turf, tennis courts, and playing fields. The school lists nine SEND provisions, including support for autistic spectrum disorder, speech and language needs, and physical disabilities. In the Parent View survey, 93 per cent of 251 respondents would recommend the school, with particularly strong agreement on high expectations (59 per cent strongly agree) and a good range of subjects (61 per cent strongly agree). This is a large, popular city school that suits families looking for strong academic progress within a faith-based setting.

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