How Perry Court primary school went from worst in Bristol to the best in two years

A primary school in one of Bristol’s most deprived areas has gone from being the worst in the city to the best - in the space of just two years.

And Perry Court primary school in Hengrove isn’t just the best in Bristol, it’s gone from being in the bottom one per cent of all schools in Britain in 2017 to the top one per cent now.

About two years ago, with the school rock bottom of Bristol’s league table, they came together to decide that enough was enough, and if they wanted to turn around their school and their children’s futures, it was down to them to do it. And since then, in the space of just two years, the school has been radically transformed.

The bare statistics are astonishing enough: from being the worst performing school in Bristol in the 2017 SATs results, it was this weekend ranked as the best. Back in 2017, of the Year 6s leaving Perry Court, just one in six went onto secondary school with the required level in their SATs.

By the following summer, it had jumped to more than four in six, and the school was shortlisted for a prestigious TES Award.

This summer, it got even better. The Class of 2019, who joined the school as four-year-olds in 2012 and saw the beginnings of the transformation when they started Year 4, left Perry Court with a staggering 96 per cent of the pupils ‘passing’ their SATs.

That result not only makes Perry Court the best in Bristol, where once just two years ago it was the worst, but it puts the school ranked 27th best in England.

That’s 27 out of 20,553 schools.

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