Graded inspection · Feb 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 |
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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 entry541 applications · 112 places offered · 216 named it first
FaithMay give priority to families of the faith.
- 2026 4.8; Bradford median median 2.4
- 2025 5.4; Bradford median median 2.4
- 2024 4.4; Bradford median median 2.5
- 2023 4.9; Bradford median median 2.3
- 2022 4.3; Bradford median median 2.5
- 2021 2.5; Bradford median median 2.5
- 2020 2.1; 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 | 112 | 541 | 4.8 | 216 | 1.93 |
| Sep 2025 | 117 | 634 | 5.4 | 254 | 2.17 |
| Sep 2024 | 117 | 510 | 4.4 | 181 | 1.55 |
| Sep 2023 | 114 | 560 | 4.9 | 248 | 2.18 |
| Sep 2022 | 119 | 513 | 4.3 | 277 | 2.33 |
| Sep 2021 | 120 | 303 | 2.5 | 135 | 1.13 |
| Sep 2020 | 119 | 247 | 2.1 | 96 | 0.81 |
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.) | 117 | 49.8 | 66% | 78% | – |
| 2024/25 | 124 | 49.1 | 57% | 73% | – |
| 2023/24 | 113 | 51.3 | 63% | 80% | +0.15 |
| 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
- Eden Boys' Leadership Academy, BradfordThis schoolThis schoolOutstanding20244.8applications per place 49.8Attainment 8
- 1.0 km · BradfordRemains Outstanding20247.8applications per place 54.7Attainment 8
- 1.1 km · BradfordGraded · no overall grade20242.4applications per place 46.8Attainment 8
- 1.6 km · Bradford20262.6applications per place 41.1Attainment 8
- 1.8 km · BradfordGood20237.4applications per place 52.2Attainment 8
- 1.9 km · Bradford20262.4applications per place 45.4Attainment 8
- 1.9 km · BradfordRequires improvement20242.5applications per place 41.9Attainment 8
- 2.0 km · BradfordGraded · no overall grade20259.5applications per place 52.5Attainment 8
- 2.1 km · BradfordRemains Good20242.1applications per place 35.7Attainment 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
- 147204 · 380/4087
- Trust
- Star Academies
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Religious character
- Muslim
- Capacity
- 800 pupils · 598 on roll
- Free school meals
- 35.5% of pupils (England median 23%)
- Opened
- 2 September 2019
- Address
- Syedna Way, Bradford, BD8 9AR
- Local authority
- Bradford
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources