Information about Bristol secondary schools, find a secondary school, admission arrangements and how places were allocated in previous years.
Find your nearest secondary school
Use our school finder, enter your postcode to find your nearest secondary school Go to https://maps.bristol.gov.uk/myplace/?layer=Secondary%20schools (opens new window) and school contact details.
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Daventry Road
The school will open in temporary accommodation on the site of an existing Oasis school (Oasis Academy John Williams) from September 2023.
The school's permanent building will be on Daventry Road and work is underway preparing the site for construction. Oasis Community Trust is working closely with its partners and are hopeful the academy's permanent home will open in 2025.
Temple Quarter
The academy will open in September 2023 in an existing school building on the Oasis Academy Brislington campus.
It will move to its temporary building at Spring Street (BS3 4PZ) in January 2024 where it will remain until the academy's permanent building opens on Silverthorne Lane, which is forecasted to be September 2025.
Home to school distances are measured from the academy's permanent sites location to applicants home address.
Term dates
Bristol schools term and holiday dates
Types of school
Different types of secondary school in Bristol
Admission arrangements
See Bristol secondary places and geographical areas including information about:
- school website address
- planned admission number for 2024
- type of school
- age range
- number on roll
- number of on time applications last year
- admissions policy for 2024
- priority area maps
- pdf Delayed deferred and accelerated entry to secondary school (151 KB)
You must have written agreement from you preferred schools to accept an application for a child working outside their chronological year group before making an online application.
Contact your preferred school as soon as possible to ensure you receive a response to your request before the common application form closing date of 31 October 2023.
Allocation of places in previous years
How places were allocated by school for year 7 secondary places in previous years
See secondary school place appeals for details of applications and outcome of Bristol secondary school appeals last year.
Free school meals
Find out if your child can get free school meals and how to apply.
Home to school travel
Find out if your child can get support with home to school travel and how to apply.