St Martin's Garden Primary School, Bath

Ofsted's report card from its 13 January 2026 inspection grades St Martin's Garden Primary School on 7 areas: 4 expected standard and 3 needs attention. Report cards replaced single-word judgements in November 2025, on a five-point scale from exceptional to urgent improvement.

Curriculum and teaching - Expected standard. "Leaders ensure that pupils learn a broad and ambitious curriculum."

Early years - Expected standard. "Children in Reception Year understand and follow the rules and routines of the classroom."

Inclusion - Expected standard. "Leaders prioritise the early identification of pupils' needs."

Personal development and wellbeing - Expected standard. "Pupils follow a well planned and suitable personal development programme."

Achievement - Needs attention. "Attainment and progress are consistently below national average, including for pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities and disadvantaged pupils."

Attendance and behaviour - Needs attention. "Attendance is not improving quickly enough."

Leadership and governance - Needs attention. "The school has recently experienced significant changes in leadership and staffing."

Safeguarding standards were met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "• Leaders should further develop the consistency of the effective teaching practice that has been established, so that more pupils go on to achieve as well as they should in national tests and examinations. • Leaders should ensure that pupils, particularly those who are disadvantaged, who have gaps in their mathematical foundational knowledge and skills from their prior learning of the curriculum, are supported to secure this key learning and close these gaps quickly. • Leaders should continue to build upon the school's work to promote high rates of attendance, including intervening swiftly to support and challenge parents and carers whose children do not attend school regularly. • Leaders should further strengthen relationships with staff and parents to support more effective partnership in the school's continued improvement journey".

From the headteacher's welcome: "A place where children are inspired to grow, thrive and flourish every day. We are incredibly proud to lead such a special school community and are delighted to share a little about what makes St Martin's Garden such a wonderful place to learn."

Clubs and activities named on the school's website include football, netball and forest school.

The school runs a breakfast club from 7:30am.

Coming up: an open day on Monday 9 November 2026, an open day on Wednesday 11 November 2026, an open day on Monday 18 January 2027 and an open day on Monday 8 March 2027. Check the school's website before you go, as dates can change.

In 2025, 34% of Year 6 pupils at St Martin's Garden Primary School reached the expected standard in reading and 31% 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 fell from 54% in reading and 54% in maths in 2024.

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

For September 2026 entry, 26 families put St Martin's Garden Primary School as their first choice and 38 named it as one of their preferences, for 27 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 Martin's Garden Primary School are St Philip's CofE Primary School (0.4 miles, Good, 93% reading, 93% maths); Moorlands Junior School (0.8 miles, Good, 78% reading, 65% maths); Moorlands Infant School (0.9 miles, Good); and Mulberry Park Educate Together Primary Academy (1 mile, Good, 86% reading, 76% maths).

Each of them had higher 2025 results than St Martin's Garden Primary School.

St Martin's Garden Primary School is one of 13 schools run by Palladian Academy Trust, an academy trust.

Across the trust's primary schools, 64% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths in 2024/25.

26 parents answered Ofsted's Parent View survey about St Martin's Garden Primary School (as of April 2026): 50% would recommend the school, 69% say their child is happy there and 21% of those with a view say bullying is dealt with well.

The strongest agreement was that their child is happy at the school (69%); the weakest, that the school deals with bullying well (among parents with a view) (21%).

46.8% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, well above the average state school (25%), according to the 2026 school census.

In 2026, 39 pupils (19.4%) received SEN support and 60 (29.9%) 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 autism.

St Martin's Garden Primary School has a SEN unit for visual impairment, speech, language and communication needs, autism, social, emotional and mental health needs, physical disability and moderate learning difficulties: 48 places, 48 pupils on roll.

St Martin's Garden Primary School had 17 teachers in 2026, one for every 12 pupils: more teachers per pupil than a typical primary school, at about one for every 20.

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

17 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Fosseway School (nw-bound), 110 metres away.

In 2024/25, St Martin's Garden Primary School issued 34 suspensions, 16.7 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and no permanent exclusions.

The secondary schools closest to St Martin's Garden Primary School are Saint Gregory's Catholic College (0.4 miles), Beechen Cliff School (1.2 miles) and Hayesfield Girls School (1.3 miles).