Graded inspection · Dec 2024 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther secondary schools in Bradford
What did Ofsted find?
Ofsted data to 30 September 2026| Area | Outstanding | Good | Requires improvement | Inadequate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality of education | Outstanding | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Outstanding | |||
| Personal development | Outstanding | |||
| Leadership and management | Outstanding | |||
| Sixth form provision | Outstanding |
Inspection history
- 10 December 2024Graded inspection, no overall grade
- 20 January 2023Ungraded inspection: School remains Outstanding (Concerns)
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About these grades
Ofsted's report cards (from November 2025) grade each area on five steps and give no overall grade. Earlier grades come from a different framework; Ofsted says the two cannot be compared, so they are never converted here. Ofsted: "We normally inspect schools every 4 years or at any time if we have concerns." Methodology.
How hard is it to get a place?
DfE · Sept 2026 entry839 applications · 290 places offered · 343 named it first
- 2026 2.9; Bradford median median 2.4
- 2025 2.9; Bradford median median 2.4
- 2024 2.7; Bradford median median 2.5
- 2023 2.8; Bradford median median 2.3
- 2022 2.7; Bradford median median 2.5
- 2021 2.8; Bradford median median 2.5
- 2020 2.8; Bradford median median 2.3
- 2019 2.8; Bradford median median 2.4
- 2018 2.7; Bradford median median 2.7
- 2017 2.6; Bradford median median 3.0
- 2016 2.9; Bradford median median 4.3
- 2015 2.5; Bradford median median 4.1
- 2014 2.3; Bradford median median 3.9
- This school
- Bradford median
Year 7 applications for September 2027 close 31 October 2026, through your council
How this is measured
Applications per place: every application naming the school at any preference, divided by places offered on National Offer Day. It is not your chance of a place. Methodology.
| Entry | Places | Applications | Per place | First preferences | First-pref. ratio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2026 | 290 | 839 | 2.9 | 343 | 1.18 |
| Sep 2025 | 305 | 885 | 2.9 | 354 | 1.16 |
| Sep 2024 | 311 | 851 | 2.7 | 333 | 1.07 |
| Sep 2023 | 307 | 872 | 2.8 | 343 | 1.12 |
| Sep 2022 | 311 | 847 | 2.7 | 335 | 1.08 |
| Sep 2021 | 314 | 862 | 2.8 | 330 | 1.05 |
| Sep 2020 | 305 | 838 | 2.8 | 344 | 1.13 |
| Sep 2019 | 322 | 904 | 2.8 | 353 | 1.10 |
| Sep 2018 | 291 | 790 | 2.7 | 270 | 0.93 |
| Sep 2017 | 282 | 731 | 2.6 | 283 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2016 | 259 | 740 | 2.9 | 283 | 1.09 |
| Sep 2015 | 243 | 610 | 2.5 | 265 | 1.09 |
| Sep 2014 | 246 | 563 | 2.3 | 257 | 1.04 |
How did pupils do at GCSE?
DfE KS4 · 2025/26 provisionalEvery year as a table
| Year | Pupils | Attainment 8 | 5+ Eng & maths | 4+ Eng & maths | Progress 8 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 (prov.) | 319 | 56.6 | 58% | 78% | – |
| 2024/25 | 311 | 56.5 | 67% | 85% | – |
| 2023/24 | 321 | 56.5 | 64% | 79% | +0.54 |
| 2022/23 | 297 | 53.3 | 57% | 76% | +0.38 |
Progress 8 is not published for 2024/25 or 2025/26: those pupils had no key stage 2 tests in 2020 and 2021.
Schools nearby
The 8 nearest secondary schools in a straight line, in any local authority
- Ilkley Grammar SchoolThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20242.9applications per place 56.6Attainment 8
- 7.2 km · LeedsGraded · no overall grade20254.4applications per place 56.6Attainment 8
- 7.6 km · BradfordRemains Good20234.0applications per place 45.6Attainment 8
- Graded · no overall grade20243.8applications per place 52.3Attainment 8
- 8.3 km · BradfordStandards maintained20252.4applications per place 40.4Attainment 8
- 8.5 km · LeedsStandards maintained20243.8applications per place 53.0Attainment 8
- 8.5 km · BradfordGraded · no overall grade20251.8applications per place 31.7Attainment 8
- 8.9 km · Bradford20263.2applications per place 40.8Attainment 8
- 9.0 km · BradfordGraded · no overall grade20254.5applications per place 51.5Attainment 8
- Exceptional
- Strong standard
- Expected standard
- Needs attention
- Urgent improvement
- Does not apply
Eight dots, one per area: inclusion, curriculum, achievement, attendance, personal development, early years, post-16, leadership. Colours follow Ofsted's report card scale; Schoolfile is independent of Ofsted.
School details
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- URN · DfE number
- 136905 · 380/4502
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Capacity
- 1,972 pupils · 2,219 on roll
- Free school meals
- 7.6% of pupils (England median 23%)
- SEN provision
- Resourced provision
- Opened
- 1 July 2011
- Replaced
- Ilkley Grammar School (URN 107421)
- Address
- Cowpasture Road, Ilkley, LS29 8TR
- Local authority
- Bradford
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources