About Portway School

Portway Community School is situated in Shirehampton; it is a mixed comprehensive school with 741 pupils aged 11-16 years. Pupils attend Portway from some neighbourhoods facing considerable disadvantage, and standards upon entry to the school are below the national average.

The school have faced various challenging circumstances in recent years, and are now able to celebrate some success as in the recent inspection of March 2006 HMCI declared that the school no longer requires special measures.

At the start of 2006 the school moved in to a new building with a new head teacher. HMCI are confident that the school have the capacity to improve and have given the school a Notice of Improvement. HMCI feel that the head teacher has brought the school a fresh hope that lasting improvements will happen.