St Keyna Primary School, Bristol

Ofsted's report card from its 17 March 2026 inspection grades St Keyna Primary School on 7 areas: 5 expected standard and 2 needs attention. Report cards replaced single-word judgements in November 2025, on a five-point scale from exceptional to urgent improvement.

Achievement - Expected standard. "The school is highly successful in ensuring that pupils learn their phonics knowledge and recall multiplication tables accurately."

Attendance and behaviour - Expected standard. "Since September 2025, the school's refinement of its attendance strategy has led to a greater impact than in previous years."

Curriculum and teaching - Expected standard. "The curriculum is suitably broad and ambitious."

Inclusion - Expected standard. "The school works closely with pupils, parents and carers to identify any barriers pupils may have to learning."

Personal development and wellbeing - Expected standard. "The personal, social, health and economic (PSHE) education programme is effective."

Early years - Needs attention. "There are weaknesses in the implementation of the early years curriculum."

Leadership and governance - Needs attention. "Leaders and governors do not have sufficient oversight of all aspects of the school's work."

Safeguarding standards were met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "Leaders and governors should ensure that they have stringent and accurate oversight of all aspects of the school's work and use their findings to bring about continual improvement"; "Leaders should continue to improve the quality of provision for children in the early years so that children are prepared well for the next stage of their education"; "Leaders should ensure that teaching consistently develops pupils' knowledge so that pupils achieve highly across the curriculum".

In its own words: "Our extremely well resourced nursery, Little Gems, offers our youngest learners the opportunity to join the St Keyna community. Our modern school site enjoys excellent indoor and outdoor sports facilities including a large playground, a wild area, a spacious field, a stimulating PlayPod and an exciting range of adventurous play equipment."

Coming up: an open evening on Thursday 19 November 2026 at 5.30pm, an open evening on Monday 23 November 2026 and an open day on Wednesday 25 November 2026 at 2pm. Check the school's website before you go, as dates can change.

In 2025, 72% of Year 6 pupils at St Keyna Primary School reached the expected standard in reading and 78% in maths. At the average state primary the figures were 79% and 76% in Bath and North East Somerset and 77% and 75% across England.

Results were similar in 2024 (76% in reading, 78% in maths).

With small year groups, a few pupils can move these figures by several points.

For September 2026 entry, 32 families put St Keyna Primary School as their first choice and 82 named it as one of their preferences, for 36 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 primary schools to St Keyna Primary School are St John's Church of England Primary School (0.2 miles, Good, 90% reading, 90% maths); Castle Primary School (0.4 miles, Good, 76% reading, 71% maths); Somerdale Educate Together Primary Academy (0.9 miles, Good, 80% reading, 77% maths); and Two Rivers Church of England Primary (1 mile, Outstanding).

St Keyna Primary School's 2025 results were higher than 1 of these 3 schools.

71 parents answered Ofsted's Parent View survey about St Keyna Primary School (as of April 2026): 92% would recommend the school, 94% say their child is happy there and 88% of those with a view say bullying is dealt with well.

The strongest agreement was that their child feels safe (96%); the weakest, that they are kept well informed about progress (73%).

8.8% speak English as an additional language, against 18.8% on average, according to the 2026 school census.

The largest ethnic groups are White British (84%) and Mixed (6%).

In 2026, 64 pupils (24.4%) received SEN support and 17 (6.5%) 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 speech, language and communication needs.

St Keyna Primary School had 14 teachers in 2026, one for every 15 pupils: more teachers per pupil than a typical primary school, at about one for every 20.

The nearest railway station is Keynsham Rail Station, about 1120 metres away (roughly a 14-minute walk).

10 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Lockingwell Road (ne-bound), 180 metres away.

In 2024/25, St Keyna Primary School issued 6 suspensions, 2.4 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and no permanent exclusions.

The secondary schools closest to St Keyna Primary School are Lift Broadlands (0.4 miles), Wellsway School (0.9 miles) and IKB Academy (0.9 miles).