Redcliffe Childrens Centre and Maintained Nursery School
- Nursery
- Local authority nursery school
- Ages 2 to 5
URN 108904 · Bristol
Inspection
Ofsted management information, as at 30 September 2026.
Ungraded inspection
12 July 2023“School remains Outstanding”
An ungraded inspection checks that the school is still at the standard of its last graded inspection. It does not give a new grade.
Read the reports on Ofsted’s website. Source: Ofsted, State-funded school inspections and outcomes: management information.
Pupils
Against Bristol and England, nursery schools.
Eligible for free school meals
2024/2525.4%
- Bristol
- 35.3%
- England
- 9.5%
15.9 percentage points higher than England.
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| Year | This school | Bristol | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021/22 | 16.7% | 23.6% | 8.6% |
| 2022/23 | 18.6% | 23.8% | 8.3% |
| 2023/24 | 14.7% | 21.8% | 8.1% |
| 2024/25 | 25.4% | 35.3% | 9.5% |
Pupils known to be eligible for free school meals on census day in January. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, Schools, pupils and their characteristics, 2024/25.
SEN support
2024/258.2%
- Bristol
- 16.9%
- England
- 16.7%
8.5 percentage points lower than England.
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| Year | This school | Bristol | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021/22 | 9.4% | 11.9% | 14.5% |
| 2022/23 | 8.6% | 14.6% | 17.0% |
| 2023/24 | 6.3% | 15.3% | 17.2% |
| 2024/25 | 8.2% | 16.9% | 16.7% |
Pupils receiving special educational needs support without an education, health and care plan. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, Schools, pupils and their characteristics, 2024/25.
Education, health and care plan
2024/250.0%
- Bristol
- 0.7%
- England
- 2.1%
2.1 percentage points lower than England.
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| Year | This school | Bristol | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021/22 | 0.0% | 0.9% | 1.4% |
| 2022/23 | 2.1% | 0.9% | 1.8% |
| 2023/24 | 0.0% | 1.1% | 2.3% |
| 2024/25 | 0.0% | 0.7% | 2.1% |
Pupils with an education, health and care plan. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, Schools, pupils and their characteristics, 2024/25.
First language other than English
2024/2529.1%
- Bristol
- 27.4%
- England
- 30.2%
1.1 percentage points lower than England.
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| Year | This school | Bristol | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021/22 | 21.7% | 27.8% | 29.1% |
| 2022/23 | 31.4% | 27.1% | 30.4% |
| 2023/24 | 28.7% | 27.5% | 30.7% |
| 2024/25 | 29.1% | 27.4% | 30.2% |
Pupils whose first language is known or believed to be other than English. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, Schools, pupils and their characteristics, 2024/25.
Teachers
Against Bristol and England, nursery schools.
Pupils per qualified teacher
2025/2631.8
- Bristol
- 20.7
- England
- 21.2
10.6 higher than England.
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| Year | This school | Bristol | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017/18 | 15.0 | 20.6 | 21.3 |
| 2018/19 | 22.7 | 20.4 | 21.4 |
| 2019/20 | 35.8 | 20.8 | 21.4 |
| 2020/21 | 35.5 | 20.2 | 21.1 |
| 2021/22 | 27.6 | 20.1 | 21.0 |
| 2022/23 | 40.0 | 20.0 | 21.1 |
| 2023/24 | 31.8 | 20.8 | 21.2 |
| 2024/25 | 29.8 | 20.7 | 21.3 |
| 2025/26 | 31.8 | 20.7 | 21.2 |
Full-time equivalent pupils for each full-time equivalent qualified teacher. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, School workforce in England, 2025/26.
Teacher sickness absence
2024/253.1 days
- Bristol
- 5.1 days
- England
- 5.0 days
1.9 days lower than England.
Compared with all state-funded schools: DfE publishes this measure for all schools, not by phase.
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| Year | This school | Bristol | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017/18 | 1.5 days | 4.4 days | 4.0 days |
| 2018/19 | 12.2 days | 3.9 days | 4.0 days |
| 2019/20 | Not published | Not published | Not published |
| 2020/21 | 0.8 days | 4.0 days | 3.9 days |
| 2021/22 | 2.7 days | 6.5 days | 6.3 days |
| 2022/23 | 2.2 days | 5.7 days | 5.2 days |
| 2023/24 | 0.4 days | 5.4 days | 5.3 days |
| 2024/25 | 3.1 days | 5.1 days | 5.0 days |
Days lost to sickness absence in the school year, averaged across all teachers. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, School workforce in England, 2024/25.
Finance
DfE publishes this maintained school’s income, spending and balances in its Financial Benchmarking and Insights Tool, which has no stable download, so this site links to it rather than copying the figures.
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About the school
- Pupils on roll
- 143
- Type
- Local authority nursery school
- Phase
- Nursery
- Age range
- 2 to 5
- Gender
- Mixed
- Setting
- Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
- Constituency
- Bristol Central
- Deprivation of the area (IDACI)
- Decile 2 of 10 (1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods)
Address: Spencer House, Ship Lane, Bristol, BS1 6RR
Website: www.redcliffenurseryschool.co.uk
Telephone: 01179030334
Sources and corrections
Every figure on this page names its source and period. This release was built on 20 October 2026.
- Department for Education: Get Information about Schools: establishment data (GIAS establishment extract 2026-10-20)
- Ofsted: State-funded school inspections and outcomes: management information (Latest inspections as at 2026-09-30; All inspections, 2018/19; All inspections, 2019/20; All inspections, 2020/21; All inspections, 2021/22; All inspections, 2022/23; All inspections, 2023/24; All inspections, 2024/25; All inspections, 2025/26)
- Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics: Pupil absence in schools in England (absence-3term-school, 2013/14 to 2024/25 [pinned data set id])
- Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics: Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England (exc-school, 2006/07 to 2024/25 [pinned data set id]; exc-ap-school, 2013/14 to 2024/25 [pinned data set id]; exc-geography, 2006/07 to 2024/25 [pinned data set id]; exc-ap-geography, 2013/14 to 2024/25 [pinned data set id])
- Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics: Key stage 2 attainment (ks2-school, 2022/23 to 2024/25 [pinned data set id]; ks2-geography, 2015/16 to 2025/26 [pinned data set id])
- Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics: Key stage 4 performance (ks4-school, 2023/24 to 2025/26 [pinned data set id]; ks4-geography, 2018/19 to 2025/26 [pinned data set id])
- Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics: Schools, pupils and their characteristics (School census, January 2022 (performance tables, 2021 to 2022); School census, January 2023 (performance tables, 2022 to 2023); School census, January 2024 (performance tables, 2023 to 2024); School census, January 2025 (performance tables, 2024 to 2025))
- Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics: School workforce in England (ptr-school, 2010/11 to 2025/26 [pinned data set id]; ptr-geography, 2010/11 to 2025/26 [pinned data set id]; sickness-school, 2009/10 to 2024/25 [pinned data set id]; sickness-geography, 2009/10 to 2024/25 [pinned data set id])
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: English indices of deprivation 2025: Income Deprivation Affecting Children Index (English indices of deprivation 2025, File 7 (2021 LSOAs))
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