Downend School Overview

Downend School is a secondary & 6th form school located in Bristol and reports to the local authority of South Gloucestershire.

Downend School is a mixed gender school that caters to students aged from 11 to 18 years old and it has no religious affiliations

Currently the school is undersubscribed as it has an official capacity of 1425 students but currently only enrols 1411 pupils across all class years. This can generally mean that all applications to this school stand a much stronger chance of being accepted.

Downend School students range across many different ethnicities with White British being the predominant ethnicity, accounting for 83.3% of all current students. English as a 1st language accounts for 6.4% of students at the school.

10.5% of all students at the school qualify for free school meals and 0% of Downend School pupils are classed as SEN students who have a range of special educational needs.

Student Ethnicities