State secondary schools in Bradford
35 schools · Yorkshire and the Humber · 2024/25 Department for Education figures
Bradford has 35 state secondaries, 16 of them with sixth forms. 78.1% of families got their first choice last year, worse than most of England. Results run from 11.3% to 66.9% passing English and maths, a spread of 56 points, with a middle school at 37.1%, below England's 45.4%.
Of those Ofsted has graded, 5 rated Outstanding, 15 Good, 2 Requires improvement, 1 Inadequate. 12 schools carry no overall grade at all — either inspected since Ofsted stopped issuing one in September 2024, or never inspected.
Bradford against England
State-funded schools, 2024/25
Getting a place
2026/27 secondary admissions round, across Bradford
78.1%
Got their first choiceof those who applied
England 84%
91.4%
Got one of their threefirst, second or third
0%
Got no offer at allfrom any preference
11%
Appeals upheld78 of 707 heard
These are figures for Bradford as a whole. A popular school can be much harder to get into than the average suggests, and the criteria that decide it are set by each school's own admission authority rather than centrally. How applying works
How much the choice matters here
Across Bradford's 35 schools, the share passing English and maths runs from 11% to 67%. That is a spread of 56 percentage points, about typical.
The typical council spans about 48 points. Where schools are close together the school a child gets matters less; where they are far apart it matters a great deal. The widest spreads are all selective areas, where grammar schools sit at one end and everything else at the other.
Bradford schools, subject by subject
The share reaching grade 4 or above, among schools entering at least 20 pupils. Which pupils take a subject differs a lot between schools, so read this as what happened rather than as a ranking of teaching.
- 1 Feversham Girls' Secondary Academy Bradford · 121 entries 93%
- 2 Beckfoot School Bingley · 65 entries 91%
- 3 Dixons Kings Academy Bradford · 160 entries 90%
- 4 Bingley Grammar School Bingley · 67 entries 88%
- 5 Valley Academy Bradford · 27 entries 85%
- 6 Ilkley Grammar School Ilkley · 25 entries 84%
- 7 Buttershaw Business & Enterprise College Academy Bradford · 30 entries 83%
- 8 Hanson Academy Bradford · 27 entries 81%
- 9 Belle Vue Girls' Academy Bradford · 100 entries 78%
- 10 Immanuel College Bradford · 138 entries 76%
- 11 Bronte Girls' Academy Bradford · 87 entries 75%
- 12 Dixons Trinity Academy Bradford · 132 entries 73%
- 13 Dixons Cottingley Academy Bingley · 168 entries 73%
- 14 Dixons City Academy Bradford · 173 entries 69%
- 15 Dixons McMillan Academy Bradford · 131 entries 68%
- 16 St Bede's and St Joseph's Catholic College, A Voluntary Academy Bradford · 268 entries 68%
- 17 Tong Leadership Academy Bradford · 28 entries 68%
- 18 Eden Boys' Leadership Academy, Bradford Bradford · 117 entries 67%
- 19 Bradford Academy Bradford · 48 entries 67%
- 20 Co-op Academy Grange Bradford · 79 entries 66%
- 21 Titus Salt School Bradford · 43 entries 65%
- 22 Laisterdyke Leadership Academy Bradford · 30 entries 60%
- 23 Parkside School Bradford · 25 entries 60%
- 24 Carlton Keighley Keighley · 48 entries 58%
- 25 Dixons Allerton Academy Bradford · 231 entries 53%
- 26 Bradford Forster Academy Bradford · 52 entries 42%
- 27 The Holy Family Catholic School, a Voluntary Academy Keighley · 135 entries 41%
- 28 Beckfoot Upper Heaton Bradford · 27 entries 33%
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Every school in Bradford
Schools in neighbouring authorities are not in this list, because admissions run per authority. See bordering areas.
5 of 35 have no spare places. Sort the list, or narrow it first.
- Appleton Academy Bradford · Inspected under the current report card, which gives no overall grade.
- Eng & maths
- 27%
- Attainment 8
- 35.1
- Absence
- 24%
- Beckfoot Oakbank Keighley · Inspected, after Ofsted stopped issuing a single overall grade.
- Eng & maths
- 26%
- Attainment 8
- 35.3
- Absence
- 34%
- Beckfoot School Bingley · Inspected, after Ofsted stopped issuing a single overall grade.
- Eng & maths
- 58%
- Attainment 8
- 53
- Absence
- 16%
- Beckfoot Thornton Bradford · Good.
- Eng & maths
- 35%
- Attainment 8
- 40.2
- Absence
- 34%
- Beckfoot Upper Heaton Bradford · Good.
- Eng & maths
- 31%
- Attainment 8
- 37.3
- Absence
- 37%
- Belle Vue Girls' Academy Bradford · Inspected under the current report card, which gives no overall grade.
- Eng & maths
- 32%
- Attainment 8
- 43.2
- Absence
- 20%
- Bingley Grammar School Bingley · Good. · no spare places
- Eng & maths
- 46%
- Attainment 8
- 46.5
- Absence
- 17%
- Bradford Academy Bradford · Inspected, after Ofsted stopped issuing a single overall grade.
- Eng & maths
- 23%
- Attainment 8
- 33.1
- Absence
- 31%
- Bradford Forster Academy Bradford · Inspected, after Ofsted stopped issuing a single overall grade.
- Eng & maths
- 24%
- Attainment 8
- 32.7
- Absence
- 26%
- Bradford Girls' Grammar School Bradford · Inspected, after Ofsted stopped issuing a single overall grade.
- Eng & maths
- 37%
- Attainment 8
- 44.8
- Absence
- 25%
- Bronte Girls' Academy Bradford · Good.
- Eng & maths
- 46%
- Attainment 8
- 48.9
- Absence
- 22%
- Buttershaw Business & Enterprise College Academy Bradford · Inspected, after Ofsted stopped issuing a single overall grade.
- Eng & maths
- 31%
- Attainment 8
- 36.6
- Absence
- 35%
- Carlton Bolling Bradford · Outstanding.
- Eng & maths
- 45%
- Attainment 8
- 44.4
- Absence
- 25%
- Carlton Keighley Keighley · Good.
- Eng & maths
- 37%
- Attainment 8
- 38.6
- Absence
- 22%
- Co-op Academy Grange Bradford · Inspected, after Ofsted stopped issuing a single overall grade.
- Eng & maths
- 17%
- Attainment 8
- 29.1
- Absence
- 40%
- Dixons Allerton Academy Bradford · Requires improvement.
- Eng & maths
- 38%
- Attainment 8
- 41.7
- Absence
- 32%
- Dixons City Academy Bradford · Outstanding.
- Eng & maths
- 50%
- Attainment 8
- 49.5
- Absence
- 21%
- Dixons Cottingley Academy Bingley · Good.
- Eng & maths
- 47%
- Attainment 8
- 46.7
- Absence
- 24%
- Dixons Kings Academy Bradford · Outstanding. · no spare places
- Eng & maths
- 55%
- Attainment 8
- 52.7
- Absence
- 18%
- Dixons McMillan Academy Bradford · Good. · no spare places
- Eng & maths
- 51%
- Attainment 8
- 47.3
- Absence
- 22%
- Dixons Trinity Academy Bradford · Inspected, after Ofsted stopped issuing a single overall grade.
- Eng & maths
- 50%
- Attainment 8
- 51.4
- Absence
- 22%
- Eden Boys' Leadership Academy, Bradford Bradford · Outstanding.
- Eng & maths
- 57%
- Attainment 8
- 49.1
- Absence
- 17%
- Feversham Girls' Secondary Academy Bradford · Inspected under the current report card, which gives no overall grade. · no spare places
- Eng & maths
- 45%
- Attainment 8
- 54.8
- Absence
- 14%
- Hanson Academy Bradford · Inspected, after Ofsted stopped issuing a single overall grade.
- Eng & maths
- 36%
- Attainment 8
- 35.1
- Absence
- 34%
- Ilkley Grammar School Ilkley · Inspected, after Ofsted stopped issuing a single overall grade. · no spare places
- Eng & maths
- 67%
- Attainment 8
- 56.5
- Absence
- 14%
- Immanuel College Bradford · Good.
- Eng & maths
- 42%
- Attainment 8
- 41.9
- Absence
- 27%
- Laisterdyke Leadership Academy Bradford · Good.
- Eng & maths
- 33%
- Attainment 8
- 36.1
- Absence
- 27%
- Oasis Academy Lister Park Bradford · Good.
- Eng & maths
- 26%
- Attainment 8
- 31.6
- Absence
- 38%
- Parkside School Bradford · Inadequate.
- Eng & maths
- 23%
- Attainment 8
- 36.7
- Absence
- 30%
- St Bede's and St Joseph's Catholic College, A Voluntary Academy Bradford · Inspected under the current report card, which gives no overall grade.
- Eng & maths
- 45%
- Attainment 8
- 44.5
- Absence
- 24%
- The Holy Family Catholic School, a Voluntary Academy Keighley · Inspected, after Ofsted stopped issuing a single overall grade.
- Eng & maths
- 11%
- Attainment 8
- 28.8
- Absence
- 32%
- Titus Salt School Bradford · Inspected under the current report card, which gives no overall grade.
- Eng & maths
- 35%
- Attainment 8
- 40.9
- Absence
- 26%
- Tong Leadership Academy Bradford · Good.
- Eng & maths
- 18%
- Attainment 8
- 26.4
- Absence
- 32%
- Trinity Academy Bradford Bradford · Good.
- Eng & maths
- 42%
- Attainment 8
- 43.9
- Absence
- 14%
- Valley Academy Bradford · Inspected under the current report card, which gives no overall grade.
- Eng & maths
- 46%
- Attainment 8
- 38.7
- Absence
- 33%
Pick up to 4 schools to see them side by side in the comparison tool, subject by subject.
Sixth form · Key stage 5·2024/25
A levels in Bradford
12 of Bradford's 16 sixth forms publish A level results. Ranked on the share reaching AAB or better in at least two of the subjects universities name, which is the measure the steepest entry requirements are written in.
- Bingley Grammar School Bingley C- 31%
- Ilkley Grammar School Ilkley C+ 24%
- Feversham Girls' Secondary Academy C 21%
- Titus Salt School C 21%
- Beckfoot School Bingley C- 19%
- Immanuel College B- 14%
- St Bede's and St Joseph's Catholic College, A Voluntary Academy C+ 12%
- Belle Vue Girls' Academy D+ 11%
- Dixons Allerton Academy C 11%
- Hanson Academy D+ 8%
- Beckfoot Oakbank Keighley C 5%
- Parkside School C 4%
A level results only. A sixth form running mostly BTECs and other applied courses will show a dash here and can still be the right one — those are graded on their own scale, where a distinction and an A grade carry the same points and mean different things.
Bordering Bradford
Near a boundary, schools on both sides are usually in reach. Whether a child can apply is set by each school's admission criteria, not by the border.
What these mean
- Attainment 8
- The average pupil's total score across eight GCSE-equivalent subjects, with English and maths counting double. It is scored out of 90. A score of 50 is roughly equivalent to achieving a grade 5 across eight subjects.
- Grades 4 and 5
- GCSEs are graded from 9 down to 1. Grade 4 is a standard pass and broadly corresponds to the old grade C; grade 5 is what the government calls a strong pass. Grade 7 is broadly equivalent to an old grade A.
- Persistent absence
- The share of pupils who miss at least 10% of their possible sessions during the school year. This includes both authorised and unauthorised absence, so illness and other authorised reasons are included. Persistent absence has remained substantially higher than its pre-pandemic level.
- First preference
- The share of families who were offered the school they ranked first on their application, on national offer day in March. This figure is calculated across the relevant schools or admissions authority, so a high overall figure does not necessarily mean that every individual school is easy to get into.
- Spare places
- The amount of available capacity a school has compared with the number of pupils on roll. This is different from oversubscription: spare places measure whether a school has capacity, whereas oversubscription describes demand for places exceeding the number available. A school with no spare places may be popular, but a small school can also be full without receiving a large number of applications.
- Average A-level grade
- The average grade achieved across students' A-level entries. This is different from measures such as the proportion achieving AAB or better in two or more facilitating subjects, which are sometimes used to indicate higher attainment and university-entry performance.