The Bristol City Council Primary Admissions Department manages the whole admissions process.

Our school office team can advise you who to contact and when but we have no influence over how places are allocated.

Find out all about primary school admission, and apply on line for a school place, on the Bristol City Council website here:

https://www.bristol.gov.uk/schools-learning-early-years/primary-apply

Admissions Department Tel: 0117 9037692

You can see the Department of Education's School Performance Tables HERE.

2023 Reception Intake

If your child's 5th birthday will be between 1st September 2023 and 30th August 2024 they are due to start school in September 2023. 

The deadline for applications is midnight on 15^th January 2023.

The offers are sent out in April.

September 2022 Intake

Visiting the school

Each Autumn we hold an open evening for parents of children due to start school the following September. This year it will be at 5.30 on Thursday 20th October 2022. 

In the meantime, you can view the slides from last year's presentation HERE.

You can also watch a short film introducing Hillcrest HERE.

In-year Applications

If you are considering applying for a place at Hillcrest for an older child, or at any other time of year, call Sue Cockle in our school office - 0117 3772440 - to arrange a time for one of us to show you around the school (if Covid restrictions allow). 

The number of children at Hillcrest

Our School Governors have set the maximum class size at 30 children, to allow the most flexible and effective use of our refurbished, undersized, Victorian building.

We have two form entry - two classes of 30 children in each year group.

Numbers currently on roll (Updated 29 June 2022)