It is located next to St Bernadette Catholic Primary School and the local parish church.

St Berns, as the school is colloquially known, was founded in 1958 and named after Saint Bernadette.

It was the second new Catholic school established in Bristol after World War II.

The school has improved its results between the period 2008 to 2011 and achieved its best ever GCSE scores in 2011, the table below shows the percentage of students hitting the key measure of 5 A*-C including English and Mathematics.

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