St Mary Redcliffe and Temple School

Secondary Maintained Bristol 📅 Term dates 2025–2026 🏅 Ofsted: Inspected 📊 Attainment 8: 54.2

St Mary Redcliffe and Temple School is a mixed local-authority maintained secondary school in Bristol, Bristol City Council, teaching 1,792 pupils aged 11 to 18. Ofsted graded quality of education as Good at its most recent inspection in January 2025. In 2024–2025, GCSE Attainment 8 was 54.2 (England 46.1). Term dates and holidays for 2025–2026 are listed below.

Ofsted inspection

The latest published Ofsted judgement for St Mary Redcliffe and Temple School.

Latest inspection
Graded inspection No single overall grade (Sept 2024+)

From September 2024 Ofsted no longer gives schools a single overall grade. These are the graded judgement areas from the latest inspection.

Quality of educationGood
Behaviour & attitudesGood
Personal developmentGood
Leadership & managementGood
Sixth formGood
S5 Inspection · Inspected 28 Jan 2025 · Published 20 Mar 2025
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Scale: Outstanding Good Requires improvement Inadequate

Term dates & holidays 2025–2026

Autumn, spring and summer terms, half-terms, INSET days and bank holidays for St Mary Redcliffe and Temple School.

St Mary Redcliffe and Temple School term dates calendar 2025–2026
Official term-dates calendar · 2025–2026 · source

Key dates (2025–2026)

  • Term 1 Starts Tuesday 2 September 2025 Term
  • Term 1 Ends Friday 24 October 2025 Term
  • Term 2 Starts Monday 3 November 2025 Term
  • Term 2 Ends Friday 19 December 2025 Term
  • Term 3 Starts Monday 5 January 2026 Term
  • Term 3 Ends Friday 13 February 2026 Term
  • Term 4 Starts Monday 23 February 2026 Term
  • Term 4 Ends Thursday 2 April 2026 Term
  • Term 5 Starts Monday 20 April 2026 Term
  • Term 5 Ends Friday 22 May 2026 Term
  • Term 6 Starts Monday 1 June 2026 Term
  • Term 6 Ends Wednesday 22 July 2026 Term
  • INSET Day Tuesday 2 September 2025 Inset Day
  • INSET Day Wednesday 8 October 2025 Inset Day
  • INSET Day Thursday 27 November 2025 Inset Day
  • INSET Day Tuesday 3 February 2026 Inset Day
  • INSET Day Monday 29 June 2026 Inset Day
  • Christmas Holiday Late December 2025 to early January 2026 Holiday
  • Easter Holiday Early April 2026 Holiday
  • Summer Holiday Late July 2026 to early September 2026 Holiday

Exam results & performance

DfE performance tables Official results, 2024–2025 GOV.UK ↗
54.2 Attainment 8 England 46.1 Top 15%
61.6% Grade 5+ English & maths England 45.4% Top 14%
36.37 A level average score England 35 Top 34%
17.1% Persistent absence England 17.8%

The measures that carry the most signal. Open a section to compare St Mary Redcliffe and Temple School with Bristol City Council and England.

Key stage 4 (GCSE) 54.2 Attainment 8 score

Year 11 results across eight qualifications, including English and maths.

This school Bristol City Council England

Attainment 8 score · Average across 8 GCSEs, out of 90 54.2
Bristol City Council 46.4 England 46.1 +8.1 vs England
Grade 5+ in English & maths · A strong pass 61.6%
Bristol City Council 45.9% England 45.4% +16.2 vs England
Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils 44.9
Bristol City Council 33.8 England 34.9 +10 vs England
Disadvantage gap · Attainment 8 points; smaller is better 11.6
Bristol City Council 18.7 England 15.5 -3.9 vs England
Disadvantaged pupils in the year group · Context for the scores above 19.4%
Bristol City Council 32.8% England 28.2%
Pupils in the year group · Small cohorts swing wildly 216
16 to 18 (A level & sixth form) 36.37 A level average point score

Results for students finishing post-16 study.

This school Bristol City Council England

A level average point score · Per entry, 50 = A* 36.37
Bristol City Council 34.29 England 35 +1.4 vs England
A level students · Small cohorts swing wildly 316
Attendance 17.1% Persistently absent pupils

Absence across the whole school year.

This school Bristol City Council England

Persistently absent pupils · Missed 10%+ of sessions; lower is better 17.1%
Bristol City Council 21.8% England 17.8% -0.7 vs England
Overall absence · Lower is better 7.2%
Bristol City Council 7.9% England 6.8% +0.5 vs England
What pupils do after GCSEs 96% In education, apprenticeship or work

Still in education, an apprenticeship or work a year after key stage 4.

This school Bristol City Council England

In education, apprenticeship or work 96%
Bristol City Council 90% England 92% +4 vs England
Same, for disadvantaged pupils 93%
Bristol City Council 83% England 83% +10 vs England
What students do after 16 to 18 study 80% In education, apprenticeship or work

Destinations the year after finishing post-16 study.

This school Bristol City Council England

In education, apprenticeship or work 80%
Bristol City Council 77% England 79% +1 vs England
Went to higher education 36%
Bristol City Council 26% England 37% -1 vs England
About this data source & caveats

Progress 8 is not published for 2024–2025. This year group missed their key stage 2 tests in 2020, so there is no baseline to measure progress from.

Attendance comparisons are pupil-weighted averages we calculate from every school’s published absence figure — the DfE absence file has no local authority or England rows of its own.

We show the headline measures only. Threshold and curriculum-policy figures — grade 4+ in English and maths, EBacc entry and points, the per-subject key stage 2 breakdown, academic and applied splits at 16 to 18 — reflect admissions and curriculum choices more than school quality, so they are left to GOV.UK. Progress measures matter most because they compare pupils with others who started at the same level; attainment on its own largely tracks a school’s intake.

Figures are the Department for Education’s official published results for St Mary Redcliffe and Temple School. Results are suppressed where too few pupils were entered. England figures are the average for state-funded schools. “Top x%” is this school’s position among all schools in England with a published figure for that measure — the DfE does not publish league table rankings.

Source: Compare school and college performance, Department for Education. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Location & catchment area

Indicative catchment Other secondary schools

Indicative only. This is a nearest-school (Voronoi) estimate — the area closer to St Mary Redcliffe and Temple School than to any other secondary school. Real admissions depend on the school’s own policy (straight-line distance, siblings, faith, feeder schools and available places) and change each year. Always confirm with the school and local authority admissions team.