Oasis Academy Brislington, Bristol

Ofsted's report card from its 20 January 2026 inspection grades Oasis Academy Brislington on 6 areas: 5 expected standard and 1 needs attention. Report cards replaced single-word judgements in November 2025, on a five-point scale from exceptional to urgent improvement.

Achievement - Expected standard. "Pupils' achievements at the end of key stage 4 are broadly in line with national averages."

Curriculum and teaching - Expected standard. "The school's curriculum is broad and ambitious."

Inclusion - Expected standard. "Leaders accurately identify the needs of pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND)."

Leadership and governance - Expected standard. "Leadership within the school is now stable following a period without a substantive principal."

Personal development and wellbeing - Expected standard. "Leaders have thought carefully about how to ensure pupils feel a sense of belonging."

Attendance and behaviour - Needs attention. "While pupils' overall attendance is in line with national averages, too many pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities, and some who are entitled to free school meals, do not attend regularly."

Safeguarding standards were met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "• Leaders must ensure that all staff have and model high expectations of behaviour and apply the behaviour policy consistently and fairly, particularly in unstructured times. • Leaders must further reduce the persistent absence of disadvantaged pupils to ensure they benefit from the personal development curriculum and achieve better academic outcomes. • Leaders must strengthen their relationships with some parents by ensuring they communicate positively and proactively, supporting their efforts to ensure all pupils feel a sense of belonging".

In its own words: "Being part of the Oasis family of academies, the overarching vision of our academy is to provide ' Exceptional Education at the Heart of the Community '. We want to ensure that all of our young people, whatever their starting points or background, get the education they deserve - and they deserve nothing less than exceptional."

In 2026, pupils at Oasis Academy Brislington averaged an Attainment 8 score of 42.6, the average grade across their best eight GCSEs. The average state school scored 46 in Bristol, City of; and 47 across England.

40% passed English and maths at grade 5 or above, against 44% in Bristol, City of; and 47% in England.

That is down from 44.3 in 2025.

Its most recent Progress 8 score, for 2024, was -0.29: pupils made below 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 30.9, against 47.1 for other pupils at the school - a gap of 16.2 points.

Pupils sat GCSEs in 21 subjects; after English and maths, the most popular were Combined Science, Art and Design and Geography.

For September 2026 entry, 204 families put Oasis Academy Brislington as their first choice and 343 named it as one of their preferences, for 224 places offered. It had fewer first-choice applications than places. Every family who put it first was offered a place there for 2026 entry.

The nearest other state secondary schools to Oasis Academy Brislington are St Bernadette Catholic Secondary School (1.2 miles, Good, Attainment 8 43.5); Oasis Academy John Williams (1.2 miles, Good, Attainment 8 46); Prospect Education Trust (1.3 miles); and Lift Broadlands (1.4 miles, Good, Attainment 8 43.8).

Each of them had higher 2026 results than Oasis Academy Brislington.

Oasis Academy Brislington is one of 58 schools run by Oasis Community Learning, an academy trust.

Across the trust's secondary schools, pupils averaged an Attainment 8 score of 41.1 in 2024/25.

211 parents answered Ofsted's Parent View survey about Oasis Academy Brislington (as of April 2026): 58% would recommend the school, 58% say their child is happy there and 36% of those with a view say bullying is dealt with well.

The strongest agreement was that they would recommend the school (58%); the weakest, that the school deals with bullying well (among parents with a view) (36%).

Of the 265 pupils who finished Year 11 in 2023/24, 79% stayed in education or training for at least two terms, including 39% to a further education college, 3% to an apprenticeship and 3% into work.

11.3% speak English as an additional language, against 18.8% on average, according to the 2026 school census.

The largest ethnic groups are White British (78%) and Mixed (8%).

Oasis Academy Brislington has a resourced provision for speech, language and communication needs and autism: 45 places, 45 pupils on roll.

The nearest railway station is Keynsham Rail Station, about 1.9 miles away in a straight line.

6 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Hungerford Gardens (w-bound), 260 metres away.

In August 2026, police recorded 189 crimes within a mile of the school, most often violence and sexual offences, anti-social behaviour and criminal damage and arson. That is well below the typical figure around schools in Bristol, City of (417).

In 2024/25, Oasis Academy Brislington issued 649 suspensions, 47.5 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and no permanent exclusions.

The primary schools closest to Oasis Academy Brislington are West Town Lane Academy (0.7 miles), Holymead Primary School (0.8 miles), Broomhill Junior School (0.9 miles) and Waycroft Academy (0.9 miles). Admission does not depend on which primary a child attends unless the school's policy names feeder schools.