Henbury Court Primary Academy, Bristol
Henbury Court Primary Academy is a primary school for pupils aged 2 to 11 in Bristol, part of Amplify Education. It was rated Good at its last graded Ofsted inspection, in March 2019. Ofsted's ungraded inspection in October 2024 did not change this grade. Its 2025 Key Stage 2 results were the 129th-highest of the 198 schools in Bristol with published results, and 9,982nd of 14,452 across England. It was 61% full in 2025.
- SATs results
- Below England average
- Ofsted
- Good (2019)
- Demand
- Every first choice offered
- Attendance
- Below England average
Reception applications for September 2027 close in 81 days
Deadline Friday 15 January 2027. Apply to Bristol, City of (the council where you live). Offers on 16 April.
Data last updated 26 Oct 2026
Henbury Court Primary Academy in detail
Results
In 2025, 72% of Year 6 pupils at Henbury Court Primary Academy reached the expected standard in reading and 70% in maths. At the average state primary the figures were 74% and 72% in Bristol, City of; and 77% and 75% across England.
Results rose from 48% in reading and 39% in maths in 2024.
Getting a place at Henbury Court Primary Academy
For September 2026 entry, 39 families put Henbury Court Primary Academy as their first choice and 69 named it as one of their preferences, for 44 places offered. It had fewer first-choice applications than places. Every family who put it first was offered a place there for 2026 entry.
Admissions history and your chances at Henbury Court Primary Academy
Compared with nearby schools
The nearest other state primary schools to Henbury Court Primary Academy are Blaise Primary and Nursery School (0.2 miles, Outstanding, 79% reading, 74% maths); Brentry Primary School (0.8 miles, Good, 72% reading, 83% maths); Oasis Academy Bank Leaze (1 mile, Good, 81% reading, 85% maths); and Little Mead Primary Academy (1 mile, Requires improvement, 48% reading, 54% maths).
Henbury Court Primary Academy's 2025 results were higher than 1 of these 4 schools.
Blaise Primary and Nursery SchoolBrentry Primary SchoolOasis Academy Bank LeazeLittle Mead Primary Academy
The trust
Henbury Court Primary Academy is one of 21 schools run by Amplify Education, an academy trust.
What parents say
10 parents answered Ofsted's Parent View survey about Henbury Court Primary Academy (as of September 2025): 60% would recommend the school, 80% say their child is happy there and 0% of those with a view say bullying is dealt with well.
The strongest agreement was that their child is happy at the school (80%); the weakest, that the school deals with bullying well (among parents with a view) (0%).
Who goes there
44.6% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, well above the average state school (25%), and 42.2% speak English as an additional language, against 18.8% on average, according to the 2026 school census.
The largest ethnic groups are White British (38%), Black (23%) and Mixed (13%).
Henbury Court Primary Academy has a resourced provision for speech, language and communication needs and autism: 20 places, 11 pupils on roll.
Staffing
Henbury Court Primary Academy had 17 teachers in 2026, one for every 15 pupils: more teachers per pupil than a typical primary school, at about one for every 20.
Getting there
The nearest railway station is Bristol Brabazon Rail Station, about 2.1 miles away in a straight line.
10 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Marissal Road (n-bound), 230 metres away.
The area around the school
Measured by the 2025 English Indices of Deprivation, the neighbourhood Henbury Court Primary Academy stands in is among the 20% most deprived neighbourhoods in England. This describes where the school is, not where its pupils live.
In August 2026, police recorded 184 crimes within a mile of the school, most often violence and sexual offences, shoplifting and criminal damage and arson. That is well below the typical figure around schools in Bristol, City of (417).
Suspensions and exclusions
In 2024/25, Henbury Court Primary Academy issued 23 suspensions, 7.4 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and no permanent exclusions.
Secondary schools nearby
The secondary schools closest to Henbury Court Primary Academy are Blaise High School (0.2 miles), Bristol Free School (0.9 miles) and St Bede's Catholic College (1.3 miles).
Blaise High SchoolBristol Free SchoolSt Bede's Catholic College
Sources: DfE school performance data (averages: state mainstream schools); DfE school-level applications and offers; council admissions booklets; DfE appeals statistics; Ofsted Parent View; DfE school census and special educational needs statistics; DfE school workforce census; NaPTAN (Department for Transport); English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (MHCLG); data.police.uk street-level crime; DfE exclusions statistics
Location
Every family who put it first was offered a place for 2026 entry, so distance did not limit places that year.
Key Information
DfE GIASOfsted Rating
Ofsted · 2 years agoThis judgement is from March 2019, 7 years ago, longer than Ofsted's usual 4-year cycle: the school may have changed since.
Overall
Quality of Education
Behaviour & Attitudes
Personal Development
Leadership & Management
Early Years
Ofsted's report, in its own words
What is it like to attend this school?
Pupils are proud to belong to this caring and welcoming school. Through positive relationships with each other and adults, pupils demonstrate the school's values of being confident, playful, respectful and working as a team. If pupils feel anxious, they know they can speak to an adult or use the worry box to share concerns. This ensures that pupils' voices are heard.
Over time, the curriculum has not equipped pupils with the knowledge they need to achieve well. Too many pupils leave the school not ready for the demands of secondary education. The school has raised expectations of what pupils can achieve and made bold changes to improve the curriculum. However, some changes are recent and have not had time to fully impact pupils' learning, especially in upper key stage 2.
What does the school do well and what does it need to do better?
Many factors have negatively impacted pupils' learning over time. These include the COVID-19 pandemic, low attendance and a weak curriculum. Published outcomes show that not enough pupils leave the school in Year 6 able to read, write or apply mathematics sufficiently well for their age. With expert support from the trust, the school is now moving forward at pace.
Curriculum development is at the forefront of the school's work. Recently, the school has introduced a more ambitious curriculum. It sets out the important knowledge pupils need to learn and the order in which it will be taught. Pupils are beginning to link learning across subjects. For example, in geography, they learn how rivers are formed. This helps them understand the importance of the River Nile to Ancient Egyptian civilisation. However, in some subjects, the school does not carry out effective checks to ensure that teachers teach the curriculum as intended. Some staff do not cover content in sufficient depth. This limits the breadth of knowledge some pupils acquire.
From Ofsted's October 2024 ungraded inspection report: the opening paragraphs of each section, quoted word for word. Read the full report Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Ofsted Insights
Ofsted rated this school Good at its March 2019 inspection - up from Requires Improvement.
Rated Good for
Leadership & management.
At a Glance
44.6%
Free School Meals
No
Boarding
Yes
Nursery
No
Sixth Form
Resourced provision: Speech and language, Autism
SEN Provision
No
Special Measures
What Parents Think
10 responsesSource: Ofsted Parent View, responses as at September 2025 - % who strongly agree or agree
Primary Performance (KS2)
Academic year 2024/25KS2 Results (% meeting expected standard)
Reading has improved from 48% to 72% (2024 to 2025). Maths has improved from 39% to 70% (2024 to 2025). Writing has improved from 52% to 67% (2024 to 2025).
Class Sizes
24.1
Avg class size
23.7
Infant (KS1)
24.6
KS2
10
Total classes
2 classes with more than 30 pupils
2025/26 academic year
How Does This School Compare?
Ranked against 5 nearby primary schools
Keep up with Henbury Court Primary Academy
Before and after school care
Clubs on Ofsted's childcare register at or near Henbury Court Primary Academy.
- Let's Play @ Henbury Leisure Centre320m away · Not yet graded
- Progressive Kids Blaise Primary School460m away · Not yet graded
Term dates
Henbury Court Primary Academy is an academy, so it sets its own term dates: check the school's website. As a guide, see Bristol, City of's term dates for its community schools.
Getting There
Bus Stops
Free school transport
Check free transport to Henbury Court Primary Academy from your postcode →
You apply to the council where you live. Henbury Court Primary Academy is in Bristol, City of; for families living there:
- Bristol, City of's school travel policy: Home to school travel policy
- How to apply: Apply online for home school travel support
Safety and surroundings
Road collisions within 500 m (2021 to 2025)
- Collisions
- 28
- Fatal
- 0
- Serious
- 10
- Children hurt
- 8
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 28 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 10 serious and 18 slight.
8 children aged 0 to 15 were hurt: 3 on foot and 5 in a vehicle or otherwise.
7 of the collisions happened on a weekday between 08:00 and 09:30 or 14:45 and 16:30, holidays included.
The typical figure for schools in Bristol, City of is 27 (the median across 175 schools, same distance and years).
Serious and slight counts use the Department for Transport's severity adjustment, which allows for changes in how police forces record injuries; they are estimates, rounded to whole numbers. Distances are in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19), Open Government Licence v3.0.
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Your chances of a place at Henbury Court Primary Academy
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Capacity & Demand
School Occupancy
61%
Available places
258 pupils
420 places
162 spare places in 2025
2025, DfE school capacity data
Area Demand Pressure - Bristol
Based on MHCLG Live Table 122 (2024-25, last 5 years) for Bristol
Across Bristol, City of council
Places available
5,210
Applications
4,287
Got 1st preference
92.0%
Got preferred school
99.1%
All primary applications across Bristol, City of council (2026/27), not just this school.
This school: Every first choice offered
Inspection History(5)
SEND & SEN Provision
SEN Overview
47
SEN Support
9
EHC Plans
19.0%
of Total Pupils
2026 academic year
Provision & Specialist Facilities
Henbury Court Primary Academy has a resourced provision for speech, language and communication needs and autism: 20 places, 11 pupils on roll.
Source: GIAS, Department for Education.
Pupils by Need Type
Pupil Demographics
Ethnicity
2026 academic year
Key Indicators
294
Total Pupils
151
Boys
143
Girls
2026 academic year
Workforce
17
Teachers
17.3:1
Pupil-teacher ratio
£50,748
Mean salary
2026 data
School Funding
£6,332
Per pupil
£1957k
Total funding
£205k
Pupil premium
2025-26 financial year allocations
Pupil Absence2024/25
7.8%
Overall absence
24.5%
Persistent absence
249
Enrolments
Absence trend
Source: DfE pupil absence statistics. Persistent absence = pupils missing 10%+ sessions.
Secondary Schools Nearby
Secondary schools pupils are likely to move to
Henbury Court Primary Academy
Questions parents ask about Henbury Court Primary Academy
What are SATs results like at Henbury Court Primary Academy?
Of the pupils at Henbury Court Primary Academy who took the 2025 Key Stage 2 assessments, 72% reached the expected standard in reading and 70% did so in maths.
What is Henbury Court Primary Academy's Ofsted rating?
Henbury Court Primary Academy's most recent Ofsted inspection, in October 2024, was ungraded, so it gave no overall grade. At its last graded inspection, in March 2019, it was rated Good.
What is the catchment area for Henbury Court Primary Academy?
No fixed boundary. When Henbury Court Primary Academy is oversubscribed, Bristol, City of allocates places by its published criteria, usually ending with home-to-school distance.
Is it hard to get a place at Henbury Court Primary Academy?
Henbury Court Primary Academy was not full in 2025: it ran at 61% of its 420 places.
How big are the classes at Henbury Court Primary Academy?
Classes at Henbury Court Primary Academy average 24.1 pupils (2025/26). 2 classes have more than 30 pupils - infant classes are capped at 30 by law, with limited exceptions.
How many pupils go to Henbury Court Primary Academy?
Henbury Court Primary Academy has around 294 pupils on roll. 45% are eligible for free school meals.
Does Henbury Court Primary Academy have specialist SEN provision?
Henbury Court Primary Academy has a resourced provision for speech, language and communication needs and autism: 20 places, 11 pupils on roll.
What is attendance like at Henbury Court Primary Academy?
7.8% of sessions were missed at Henbury Court Primary Academy in 2024/25. 24.5% of pupils were persistently absent (missing 10% or more of sessions).
How do I apply to Henbury Court Primary Academy?
Apply through Bristol, City of's coordinated admissions process, naming Henbury Court Primary Academy on your application. Applications for Reception places starting in September 2027 close on Friday 15 January 2027, and offers are made on Friday 16 April 2027.
Does Henbury Court Primary Academy have a breakfast club or after-school club?
Ofsted's childcare register lists 2 out-of-school clubs within a kilometre of Henbury Court Primary Academy: Let's Play @ Henbury Leisure Centre (320m away, registered, not yet graded) and Progressive Kids Blaise Primary School (460m away, registered, not yet graded). The school may also run its own clubs, which don't have to register with Ofsted.
How many road collisions happen near Henbury Court Primary Academy?
Within 500 m of the school's mapped location, police recorded 28 road collisions in which someone was injured in 2021 to 2025: none fatal, 10 serious and 18 slight. 8 children aged 0 to 15 were hurt: 3 on foot and 5 in a vehicle or otherwise. 7 of the collisions happened on a weekday between 08:00 and 09:30 or 14:45 and 16:30, holidays included. The typical figure for schools in Bristol, City of is 27 (the median across 175 schools, same distance and years).
Where is Henbury Court Primary Academy?
Henbury Court Primary Academy is at Trevelyan Walk, Henbury, Bristol, BS10 7NY.
Source: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19)