Graded inspection · Mar 2025 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 |
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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 entry1,206 applications · 271 places offered · 403 named it first
- 2026 4.5; Bradford median median 2.4
- 2025 4.6; Bradford median median 2.4
- 2024 5.2; Bradford median median 2.5
- 2023 5.2; Bradford median median 2.3
- 2022 5.2; Bradford median median 2.5
- 2021 5.4; Bradford median median 2.5
- 2020 5.5; Bradford median median 2.3
- 2019 5.9; Bradford median median 2.4
- 2018 5.9; Bradford median median 2.7
- 2017 6.0; Bradford median median 3.0
- 2016 6.3; Bradford median median 4.3
- 2015 5.8; Bradford median median 4.1
- 2014 5.2; 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 | 271 | 1,206 | 4.5 | 403 | 1.49 |
| Sep 2025 | 259 | 1,201 | 4.6 | 387 | 1.49 |
| Sep 2024 | 251 | 1,302 | 5.2 | 416 | 1.66 |
| Sep 2023 | 258 | 1,329 | 5.2 | 392 | 1.52 |
| Sep 2022 | 256 | 1,326 | 5.2 | 404 | 1.58 |
| Sep 2021 | 259 | 1,387 | 5.4 | 397 | 1.53 |
| Sep 2020 | 263 | 1,440 | 5.5 | 412 | 1.57 |
| Sep 2019 | 264 | 1,566 | 5.9 | 468 | 1.77 |
| Sep 2018 | 262 | 1,540 | 5.9 | 450 | 1.72 |
| Sep 2017 | 270 | 1,613 | 6.0 | 443 | 1.64 |
| Sep 2016 | 268 | 1,676 | 6.3 | 482 | 1.80 |
| Sep 2015 | 270 | 1,567 | 5.8 | 466 | 1.73 |
| Sep 2014 | 266 | 1,369 | 5.2 | 415 | 1.56 |
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.) | 262 | 51.5 | 58% | 74% | – |
| 2024/25 | 272 | 53.0 | 58% | 78% | – |
| 2023/24 | 267 | 50.4 | 55% | 74% | +0.42 |
| 2022/23 | 268 | 51.2 | 60% | 80% | +0.24 |
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
- Beckfoot SchoolThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20254.5applications per place 51.5Attainment 8
- 1.4 km · BradfordGood20222.3applications per place 44.5Attainment 8
- 2.0 km · BradfordRemains Good20234.0applications per place 45.6Attainment 8
- 2.4 km · Bradford20263.2applications per place 40.8Attainment 8
- 2.6 km · Bradford20252.1applications per place 44.4Attainment 8
- 2.8 km · BradfordRemains Good20231.9applications per place 36.4Attainment 8
- 4.0 km · Bradford20262.4applications per place 45.4Attainment 8
- 4.4 km · BradfordSpecial measures 20262.0applications per place 36.4Attainment 8
- 4.7 km · BradfordGraded · no overall grade20242.4applications per place 46.8Attainment 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
- 139975 · 380/4064
- Trust
- Beckfoot Trust
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Capacity
- 1,610 pupils · 1,592 on roll
- Free school meals
- 17.6% of pupils (England median 23%)
- SEN provision
- Resourced provision
- Opened
- 1 August 2013
- Replaced
- Beckfoot School (URN 107386)
- Address
- Wagon Lane, Bingley, BD16 1EE
- Local authority
- Bradford
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources