Graded inspection · Jan 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 | Good | |||
| Leadership and management | 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 entry376 applications · 149 places offered · 96 named it first
- 2026 2.5; Bradford median median 2.4
- 2025 3.1; Bradford median median 2.4
- 2024 3.6; Bradford median median 2.5
- 2023 3.8; Bradford median median 2.3
- 2022 2.8; Bradford median median 2.5
- 2021 2.6; Bradford median median 2.5
- 2020 2.3; Bradford median median 2.3
- 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 | 149 | 376 | 2.5 | 96 | 0.64 |
| Sep 2025 | 150 | 467 | 3.1 | 118 | 0.79 |
| Sep 2024 | 119 | 425 | 3.6 | 107 | 0.90 |
| Sep 2023 | 117 | 447 | 3.8 | 112 | 0.96 |
| Sep 2022 | 149 | 413 | 2.8 | 130 | 0.87 |
| Sep 2021 | 150 | 392 | 2.6 | 127 | 0.85 |
| Sep 2020 | 150 | 340 | 2.3 | 101 | 0.67 |
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.) | 148 | 47.9 | 44% | 66% | – |
| 2024/25 | 148 | 48.9 | 46% | 67% | – |
| 2023/24 | 127 | 51.2 | 58% | 76% | +0.21 |
| 2022/23 | 0 | – |
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
- Bronte Girls' AcademyThis schoolThis schoolGood20242.5applications per place 47.9Attainment 8
- 1.0 km · BradfordStandards maintained20247.7applications per place 52.5Attainment 8
- 1.0 km · BradfordGraded · no overall grade20259.5applications per place 52.5Attainment 8
- 1.2 km · BradfordGraded · no overall grade20251.9applications per place 35.2Attainment 8
- 1.3 km · BradfordGood20237.4applications per place 52.2Attainment 8
- 1.6 km · BradfordGraded · no overall grade20251.4applications per place 37.7Attainment 8
- 1.9 km · BradfordRemains Outstanding20232.5applications per place 43.8Attainment 8
- 2.2 km · Bradford20263.8applications per place 55.3Attainment 8
- 2.4 km · Bradford20262.6applications per place 41.1Attainment 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
- Free schools
- Phase
- Secondary
- URN · DfE number
- 147067 · 380/4085
- Trust
- Iexel Education Trust
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Capacity
- 720 pupils · 709 on roll
- Free school meals
- 37.9% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 2 September 2019
- Address
- Bolling Road, East Bowling, Bradford, BD4 7EB
- Local authority
- Bradford
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources