Graded inspection · Apr 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 | Requires improvement | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Requires improvement | |||
| Personal development | Requires improvement | |||
| Leadership and management | Requires improvement | |||
| Sixth form provision | Requires improvement |
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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 entry237 applications · 134 places offered · 83 named it first
FaithMay give priority to families of the faith.
- 2026 1.8; Bradford median median 2.4
- 2025 2.1; Bradford median median 2.4
- 2024 2.0; Bradford median median 2.5
- 2023 2.1; Bradford median median 2.3
- 2022 1.9; Bradford median median 2.5; as the previous school
- 2021 2.0; Bradford median median 2.5; as the previous school
- 2020 2.5; Bradford median median 2.3; as the previous school
- 2019 2.4; Bradford median median 2.4; as the previous school
- 2018 2.5; Bradford median median 2.7; as the previous school
- 2017 2.7; Bradford median median 3.0; as the previous school
- 2016 2.8; Bradford median median 4.3; as the previous school
- 2015 3.0; Bradford median median 4.1; as the previous school
- 2014 2.9; Bradford median median 3.9; as the previous school
- This school
- Bradford median
Dashed bars: as The Holy Family Catholic School (URN 107428), the previous school.
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 | 134 | 237 | 1.8 | 83 | 0.62 |
| Sep 2025 | 124 | 258 | 2.1 | 83 | 0.67 |
| Sep 2024 | 138 | 269 | 2.0 | 91 | 0.66 |
| Sep 2023 | 129 | 272 | 2.1 | 88 | 0.68 |
| Sep 2022 * | 157 | 304 | 1.9 | 118 | 0.75 |
| Sep 2021 * | 157 | 306 | 2.0 | 105 | 0.67 |
| Sep 2020 * | 141 | 358 | 2.5 | 122 | 0.87 |
| Sep 2019 * | 159 | 388 | 2.4 | 151 | 0.95 |
| Sep 2018 * | 154 | 388 | 2.5 | 151 | 0.98 |
| Sep 2017 * | 160 | 428 | 2.7 | 149 | 0.93 |
| Sep 2016 * | 164 | 459 | 2.8 | 147 | 0.90 |
| Sep 2015 * | 150 | 456 | 3.0 | 158 | 1.05 |
| Sep 2014 * | 150 | 434 | 2.9 | 172 | 1.15 |
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.) | 146 | 31.7 | 21% | 41% | – |
| 2024/25 | 141 | 28.8 | 11% | 32% | – |
| 2023/24 | 154 | 34.0 | 23% | 41% | −0.59 |
| 2022/23 | 140 | 32.2 | 15% | 33% | −0.82 |
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
- The Holy Family Catholic School, a Voluntary AcademyThis schoolThis schoolGraded · no overall grade20251.8applications per place 31.7Attainment 8
- 0.5 km · BradfordStandards maintained20252.4applications per place 40.4Attainment 8
- 2.4 km · BradfordSerious weaknesses Graded · no overall grade20251.4applications per place 37.7Attainment 8
- 5.2 km · BradfordRemains Good20234.0applications per place 45.6Attainment 8
- 5.4 km · North YorkshireGood20232.3applications per place 46.7Attainment 8
- 5.6 km · BradfordSpecial measures 20262.0applications per place 36.4Attainment 8
- 7.0 km · BradfordGraded · no overall grade20254.5applications per place 51.5Attainment 8
- 8.3 km · BradfordGood20222.3applications per place 44.5Attainment 8
- 8.5 km · BradfordGraded · no overall grade20242.9applications per place 56.6Attainment 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 sponsor led
- Phase
- Secondary
- URN · DfE number
- 149299 · 380/4094
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Capacity
- 992 pupils · 630 on roll
- Free school meals
- 46.3% of pupils (England median 23%)
- SEN provision
- Resourced provision
- Opened
- 1 August 2022
- Replaced
- The Holy Family Catholic School (URN 107428)
- Address
- Spring Gardens Lane, Keighley, BD20 6LH
- Local authority
- Bradford
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources