Admissions
Admission - Applying for a primary school place
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.
2022 Reception Intake
If your child's 5th birthday will be between 1st September 2022 and 30th August 2023 they are due to start school in September 2022.
The deadline for applications was midnight on 15th January 2022.
The offers have been sent out (in April).
If your child has not been allocated a place at Hillcrest this year and you would like to know what to do next, Carole Hooper at the Primary Admissions department at BCC will be able to advise you.
Call 0117 9037692 or email carole.hooper@bristol.gov.uk
Visiting the school
Each Autumn we hold open evenings for parents of children due to start school the following September. This year, these were held on 18th and 21st October 2021.
You can view the slides from the 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 2 March 2022)
Reception | 60 |
Yr 1 | 60 |
Yr 2 | 50 |
Yr 3 | 56 |
Yr 4 | 59 |
Yr 5 | 59 |
Yr 6 | 55 |
Total on roll | 399 |