Secondary
Cotham School
Cotham Lawn Road, Cotham, Bristol, BS6 6DT
Key facts
- Phase
- Secondary
- Type
- Academy converter
- Ages
- 11 to 18
- Intake
- Mixed
- Pupils
- 1654 of 1642 places
- Pupils per teacher
- 18.6
- Local authority
- Bristol, City of
- Sixth form
- Yes
- Trust
- COTHAM SCHOOL
Staffing23/24
- Teachers (FTE)
- 88.2
- All staff (FTE)
- 130.8
- Pupils per adult
- 12.5
- Pupils
- 1,638
Staff are counted as full-time equivalents in the November school workforce census, so the pupil figure here is that census’s own and will differ a little from the roll above, which is counted in January.
Ofsted
Last inspected October 2023
Good
Still graded as at
Good
- Leadership and governanceGood
An ungraded inspection, which checks whether a school remains at its previous grade rather than re-grading it. Inspected under the previous framework, which used its own four-point scale. Ofsted now publishes a report card grading several areas separately, so these grades are not directly comparable with a recent inspection’s.
Read the full Ofsted report (opens in a new tab)GCSE results
54%
7 points above the Bristol average (47% across 40 schools)
51.8
4.5 above the Bristol average (47.3 across 40 schools)
10th of 40 by our score, among the secondary schools in Bristol we can score - 44 in total, the rest without enough published data. Local and same-phase on purpose: a national table mostly measures who attends.
All published measures2024/2025
| Measure | Result |
|---|---|
| Attainment 8 | 51.8 |
| EBacc average point score | 4.85 |
| Entered the EBacc | 48% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 72% |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 54% |
| A level average points per entry | 35.06 |
| A level students | 187 |
From the Department for Education. Measures are published per year and suppressed where a cohort is too small, so some schools show fewer. There are no results for 2019/20 or 2020/21, when exams and assessments were cancelled.
Results over time4 years
Each measure on its own scale, over every year we hold.
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 57% |
| 22/23 | 45% |
| 23/24 | 46% |
| 24/25 | 54% |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 35.0 |
| 22/23 | 31.5 |
| 23/24 | 33.8 |
| 24/25 | 35.1 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | +0.15 |
| 22/23 | +0.10 |
| 23/24 | +0.10 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 52.2 |
| 22/23 | 47.4 |
| 23/24 | 46.2 |
| 24/25 | 51.8 |
Cotham Lawn Road, Cotham, Bristol, BS6 6DT
Admissions
How to apply (opens in a new tab)
You apply through your council, not the school - even for academies and free schools. Applications close on 31 October, the year before starting.
Bristol, City of admissions (opens in a new tab)
The council publishes the oversubscription criteria and last year’s offer distances, which is the closest thing to knowing your chances.
If you are refused a place (opens in a new tab)
You can appeal, and you can join a waiting list at the same time. Accept whatever offer you get first - declining it can leave you with no place at all.
This school’s own admissions (opens in a new tab)
Schools that set their own criteria - faith schools, grammars, academies - publish them on their own site.
Contact
- Headteacher
- Joanne Butler
- Address
- Cotham Lawn Road, Cotham, Bristol, BS6 6DT
- Telephone
- 01179198000