Secondary school
Sources and method
This school
URN 139474 · LAESTAB 380/4013 · Source: Get Information about Schools, DfE, OGL v3.0 (record under Visit & links).
Against Yorkshire and The Humber and Bradford
Track: Yorkshire and The Humber's middle 80% (10th to 90th percentile); L = Yorkshire and The Humber median; B = Bradford median, shown when 10 or more of its schools have a figure; the dot is this school.
Yorkshire and The Humber state schools in Close Knit with a published figure, same phase (primary or secondary) and year; the borough median only when 10 or more of its schools have one. 10th, 50th and 90th percentiles with linear interpolation (PostgreSQL percentile_cont).
Colour only where lower or higher is clearly better (absence: lower): blue = better than the Yorkshire and The Humber median, red = in Yorkshire and The Humber's worst 10%.
Money: Compared only with academies' accounts (AAR), same academic year.
Results
England rank: Key stage 4: Attainment 8 average score. Ranked among 3,280 secondaries in England, 2024/25. England's state-funded mainstream schools with a published figure that year (suppressed or missing figures are left out); equal figures share a rank; top % = rank ÷ schools × 100, rounded up.
Top % in England by year: the first and best years are labelled; the dashed line is the middle (top 50%).
Against Yorkshire and The Humber: Yorkshire and The Humber state secondaries, same year, cohort 30+, suppressed figures left out. Steps: the score out of 10 against Yorkshire and The Humber (10 = top 10%).
Arrows: change in Yorkshire and The Humber percentile points since 2021/22.
Pupils counted: Attainment 8 77 pupils (2024/25) · Grade 5+ English and maths 77 pupils (2024/25) · EBacc point score 77 pupils (2024/25) · Progress 8 71 pupils (2023/24).
Progress 8: Not published for 2024/25: Progress 8 returns with 2026/27 results.
Getting in
Got in = first-choice families offered a place on national offer day ÷ families who put the school first. Putting a school first gives no priority: siblings and distance decide.
First-choice applications not offered a place on national offer day: 100 × (1 − first-preference offers ÷ first preferences). Applications count preferences, not children; places can still be offered from waiting lists after offer day.
Source: DfE, Primary and secondary school applications and offers.
Last distance offered: the straight line from the school to the furthest child offered a place under the distance rule. Not a catchment: it changes every year.
Inspections
GoodRequires improvementReport card
Dates are the day each inspection started: Mar 2026 Report card, lowest Expected · Jun 2023 Requires improvement · Mar 2018 Good · Jun 2015 Requires improvement. Each dot opens its Ofsted report. Report cards and 2024–25 inspections have no overall grade: the badge takes the lowest area's colour.
Report-card areas graded Exceptional or Strong standard, and Needs attention or Urgent improvement, out of the areas graded; Expected standard counts as neither. Counted from Ofsted's grades, never scored from the report text.
Source: Ofsted, state-funded schools inspections and outcomes.
Pupils
Full = pupils on roll ÷ the school's capacity (375 places), from Get Information about Schools.
Pupil profile and absence: DfE school census and pupil absence (Compare school and college performance). Free school meals = eligible at any time in the past 6 years; persistently absent = missed 10% or more of sessions. Withheld = suppressed by DfE.
Workforce
School workforce census, 2025/26. Staff in FTE (full-time equivalent), rounded to 1 decimal on the card. As published: teachers 20, leadership 4, teaching assistants 2.64, support staff incl. TAs 12.87, whole workforce 32.87 (36 people), 20 teachers by headcount.
Other support = support staff incl. TAs minus teaching assistants.
Per adult counts teachers, TAs and other classroom support; excludes admin staff.
- DfE: FTE pupils (January census) ÷ FTE teachers (November census)
- DfE: FTE pupils ÷ FTE teachers, teaching assistants, other school support staff and technicians; administrative, auxiliary and business staff are not counted
- Teachers in leadership posts: head, deputy and assistant heads
Financials
Academy accounts (AAR) · September 2024 to August 2025.
Published total ÷ FTE pupils in the same return, to the nearest pound; income and spend per pupil are left out when the return covers less than 12 months.
CFR (maintained schools, April–March) and AAR (academies, September–August) are different accounts and years: do not compare a maintained school with an academy.
Destinations
Students who finished the stage in the cohort year, followed through the next year: sustained = at least six months in education, an apprenticeship or employment
Source: DfE destination measures.
Why some figures are missing
Parent View: Ofsted Parent View: not published for this school (Ofsted lists only schools with 10 or more responses; fewer in the current survey and in the earlier-survey years loaded).
All sources and licences (7)
- Department for Education, Primary and secondary school applications and offers
- Department for Education, Compare school and college performance
- Ofsted, state-funded schools inspections and outcomes
- Department for Education, Academies Accounts Return
- Department for Education, Key stage 4 destination measures, academic year
- Department for Education, School workforce in England, reporting year 2025
- Department for Education, Get Information about Schools
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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Results · 2024/25
Ranked 2,757 of 3,280 secondaries in England · top 85%
Against Yorkshire and The HumberArrows: Yorkshire and The Humber rank change since 2021/22
Show exam results by year
No exams 2019/20–21
Getting in · 2026
By preference
| Choice | Applied | Offered |
|---|---|---|
| 1st | 45 | 45 |
| 2nd | 41 | 8 |
| 3rd | 34 | 2 |
Last distance offered: London only
Visit & links
Open days aren't open data: the school site lists them.
Official
Guides
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Inspections · 2015–2026
- InclusionExpected
- AchievementExpected
- Curriculum and teachingExpected
- Attendance and behaviourExpected
- Leadership and governanceExpected
- Personal development and wellbeingExpected
- SafeguardingMet
- 2015Requires improvement
- 2018Good
- 2023Requires improvement
- 2026Lowest Expected
Pupils · 2024/25
Girls 40.9%Boys 59.1%
94.9% full · 375 places
Parent View
Not published for this school
Workforce · 2025/26
- Classroom teachers 16
- Leadership 4
- Teaching assistants 2.6
- Other support 10.2
Teachers 20 FTE · Whole workforce 32.9 · 36 people
Financials · 2024/25
- +£329,000revenue reserve
- +£258,000in-year balance
Grants £9,409 · self-generated £210 · premises £259 per pupil
Single-academy trust: ONE IN A MILLION FREE SCHOOL
Destinations · 2023/24 leavers
After Year 11
71 students, followed through 2024/25 · Provisional