Bristol Metropolitan Academy, Bristol

Ofsted's report card from its 19 May 2026 inspection grades Bristol Metropolitan Academy on 6 areas: 6 expected standard. Report cards replaced single-word judgements in November 2025, on a five-point scale from exceptional to urgent improvement.

Achievement - Expected standard. "Pupils' attainment across the curriculum is similar to the national average."

Attendance and behaviour - Expected standard. "Since the previous inspection, there has been a sharp rise in the proportion of pupils with social and emotional difficulties and attendance has declined."

Curriculum and teaching - Expected standard. "Leaders pay close attention to pupils' achievements in different subjects."

Inclusion - Expected standard. "The school prides itself on the welcoming environment it provides to pupils with vulnerabilities that create barriers to learning and success."

Leadership and governance - Expected standard. "Leaders and governors are committed to securing the best possible outcomes for disadvantaged pupils."

Personal development and wellbeing - Expected standard. "Leaders take account of issues arising locally and nationally when planning the curriculum for personal, social and health education."

Safeguarding standards were met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "Leaders should ensure that pupils with barriers to their learning consistently receive the adaptations that they need to learn successfully"; "Leaders should continue to support pupils with severe absence to build towards a pattern of regular attendance"; "Leaders should further develop pupils' learning and experiences through the personal development programme so that they gain detailed knowledge of fundamental British values and the institutions that uphold them"; "Leaders should increase the rigour with which pupils' experiences are monitored and evaluated with a view to ensuring that all pupils consistently benefit from the full range of opportunities that leaders envision for them".

In its own words: "Bristol Met has excellent learning at the core of every activity it undertakes and is committed to providing a learning experience for students and staff which rivals the best practices in the UK and the wider world. Bristol Metropolitan Academy works in partnership with students, staff, parents, the community and the CLF."

In 2026, pupils at Bristol Metropolitan Academy averaged an Attainment 8 score of 48.4, the average grade across their best eight GCSEs. The average state school scored 46 in Bristol, City of; and 47 across England.

48% passed English and maths at grade 5 or above, against 44% in Bristol, City of; and 47% in England.

That is up from 46.9 in 2025.

Its most recent Progress 8 score, for 2024, was 0.54: pupils made well above average progress compared with pupils nationally who started secondary school at the same level. Progress 8 was not published for 2026.

Disadvantaged pupils averaged an Attainment 8 of 37.9, against 52.3 for other pupils at the school - a gap of 14.4 points.

Pupils sat GCSEs in 27 subjects; after English and maths, the most popular were Combined Science, Spanish and Art and Design.

For September 2026 entry, 231 families put Bristol Metropolitan Academy as their first choice and 454 named it as one of their preferences, for 205 places offered. That is 1.1 first choices for every place. 44 families who put it first were not offered a place there.

The nearest other state secondary schools to Bristol Metropolitan Academy are Bristol Brunel Academy (1 mile, Good, Attainment 8 44.1); South Gloucestershire Hospital Home Teaching Service (1.2 miles); Trinity Academy (1.2 miles, Good, Attainment 8 50.4); and Fairfield High School (1.5 miles, Good, Attainment 8 47.3).

Bristol Metropolitan Academy's 2026 results were higher than 2 of these 3 schools.

Bristol Metropolitan Academy is one of 36 schools run by Cabot Learning Federation, an academy trust.

Across the trust's secondary schools, pupils averaged an Attainment 8 score of 43.5 in 2024/25.

Of the 215 pupils who finished Year 11 in 2023/24, 89% stayed in education or training for at least two terms, including 36% to a further education college, 1% to an apprenticeship and 1% into work.

In 2026, 173 pupils (15.7%) received SEN support and 67 (6.1%) had an education, health and care plan, against 16.2% and 4.6% at the average state school. The most common need among them is social, emotional and mental health needs.

The nearest railway station is Stapleton Road Rail Station, about 1.5 miles away in a straight line.

8 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Snowdon Road (nw-bound), 190 metres away.

In 2024/25, Bristol Metropolitan Academy issued 375 suspensions, 34.2 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and no permanent exclusions.

The primary schools closest to Bristol Metropolitan Academy are Fishponds CofE Primary School (0.3 miles), Avanti Gardens School (0.5 miles), Begbrook Primary Academy (0.5 miles) and Chester Park Infant School (0.5 miles). Admission does not depend on which primary a child attends unless the school's policy names feeder schools.