Free school · Bristol, City of
Bristol Free School
- Secondary
- Ages 11–19
- Sixth form
Term dates
Free schools can set their own term dates. Many follow Bristol, City of council's dates, shown below as a guide, but check with the school, especially for INSET days.
2026/27
2027/28
Admissions
Places for Year 7 are applied for through your home council, not the school.
Apply for a secondary school place on GOV.UK
How places are given: there's no entrance test. When there are more applicants than places, places usually go by criteria such as siblings, distance or catchment area. Check the council's or school's admissions policy for the exact rules.
For the sixth form, apply to the school directly.
How many families applied: Year 7
For September 2026, 300 families put this school as their first choice, and 218 places were offered. 189 of the families who put it first got a place (63%). More families put it first than there were places.
| Entry | Places offered | Put it first | Got their first choice |
|---|---|---|---|
| September 2026 | 218 | 300 | 63% |
| September 2025 | 205 | 311 | 58% |
| September 2024 | 221 | 290 | 67% |
Offers made on national offer day, from the Department for Education. Waiting lists and appeals can change things later. The hardest schools to get into.
Ofsted inspection
Report card, 31 March 2026. Ofsted now grades each area separately, from exceptional to urgent improvement, with no single overall grade.
- Inclusion
- Strong standard
- Curriculum and teaching
- Expected standard
- Achievement
- Strong standard
- Attendance and behaviour
- Strong standard
- Personal development and wellbeing
- Strong standard
- Sixth form
- Strong standard
- Leadership and governance
- Strong standard
Safeguarding standards: met.
Previous inspection, 8 March 2022. Overall: Good
From Ofsted's published inspection data (Open Government Licence). Report cards and older grades use different scales, so they can't be compared directly.
About and location
- Type
- Free school
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–19
- Pupils
- 1304 (capacity 1090)
- Gender
- Mixed
- Academy trust
- RUSSELL EDUCATION TRUST
- Phone
- 01179597200
- Address
- Concorde Drive, Westbury-on-Trym, Bristol, BS10 6NJ
- Website
- bristolfreeschool.org.uk
School details from the Department for Education's register of schools (Open Government Licence). Report a correction.