Which school had the best GCSE results in Bradford in 2023?

On 2023 Attainment 8, Dixons Trinity Academy topped the table in Bradford with 54.9, against an England average of 46.3. Attainment 8 rewards intake as well as teaching, so compare a school's grade 5+ pass rate and, where published, its Progress 8 before reading the rank as a verdict.

Where are the latest Bradford GCSE results?

This page is the 2023 archive (the 2022/23 academic year). The latest published results for every school in Bradford are on the main Bradford GCSE results page, which updates when the DfE releases the next year's performance tables: provisional figures in the autumn, revised figures early in the new year.

What is Attainment 8?

Attainment 8 is the DfE's headline GCSE measure: the average points a school's pupils achieved across eight qualifications, with English and maths counted twice. A score of 50 means pupils averaged roughly a grade 5 across those subjects. Progress 8 measures the same pupils against others nationally with the same primary-school starting point.

Why does a school in Bradford show no 2023 GCSE results?

A school has no published figure for 2023 when it had no Year 11 cohort in that year (a new school, or one that opened with younger year groups), when it converted to an academy and the DfE published that year's results under its previous identity, or when it is independent and its pupils sat IGCSE, Pre-U or IB qualifications that the DfE tables do not count. Independent schools with a published figure are listed separately and unranked for that reason.

Bradford GCSE results 2023: secondary school league table

31 state secondary schools in Bradford ranked on their 2023 GCSE results (Attainment 8, the 2022/23 academic year), with grade 5+ and grade 4+ in English and maths, Progress 8, EBacc average point score and cohort size for each school against the England average. 4 schools with no published results are listed at the end. 8 independent schools with published results are listed separately, unranked.

This is the 2023 archive of the table. See the latest Bradford GCSE results for the newest year the DfE has published.

Local Authority 35 state secondary schools 2022/23 results Archive year

Secondary schools in Bradford ranked on Attainment 8

31 of 35 schools have published 2023 results. Source: DfE school performance tables, 2022/23.

Secondary schools in Bradford ranked on Attainment 8, 2023 results
Rank	School	Attainment 8	Progress 8	Grade 5+ English & maths	Grade 4+ English & maths	EBacc APS	Pupils
–	England average	46.3	0.00	45%	65%	4.05	–
1	Dixons Trinity Academy Bradford · Free schools	54.9	+0.77 (0.51 to 1.03)	58%	77%	4.91	120
2	Dixons City Academy Bradford · Academy sponsor led	54.5	+0.39 (0.18 to 0.61)	57%	73%	5.04	169
3	Ilkley Grammar School Ilkley · Academy converter	53.3	+0.38 (0.21 to 0.54)	57%	76%	4.67	297
4	Feversham Girls' Secondary Academy Bradford · Academy converter	52.8	+0.59 (0.34 to 0.85)	44%	70%	4.85	129
5	Dixons Kings Academy Bradford · Free schools	52.3	+0.48 (0.26 to 0.70)	59%	74%	4.89	167
6	Bradford Girls' Grammar School Bradford · Free schools	51.7	+0.27 (0.00 to 0.54)	53%	70%	4.70	113
7	Beckfoot School Bingley · Academy converter	51.2	+0.24 (0.07 to 0.41)	60%	79%	4.29	268
8	Dixons McMillan Academy Bradford · Free schools	47.7	-0.14 (-0.39 to 0.12)	55%	74%	4.48	121
9	Bingley Grammar School Bingley · Voluntary aided school	46.9	-0.04 (-0.20 to 0.12)	48%	67%	4.00	297
10	Immanuel College Bradford · Academy converter	46.0	-0.07 (-0.24 to 0.10)	39%	61%	3.58	265
11	Belle Vue Girls' Academy Bradford · Academy converter	45.3	+0.46 (0.25 to 0.66)	38%	57%	4.16	187
12	Dixons Cottingley Academy Bingley · Academy sponsor led	45.1	+0.42 (0.19 to 0.64)	43%	68%	3.96	169
13	Dixons Allerton Academy Bradford · Academy sponsor led	42.8	-0.06 (-0.24 to 0.12)	36%	56%	3.68	241
14	Titus Salt School Bradford · Community school	41.8	-0.32 (-0.50 to -0.15)	33%	56%	3.46	252
15	Carlton Bolling Bradford · Academy converter	41.5	+0.06 (-0.10 to 0.22)	32%	51%	3.01	317
16	Trinity Academy Bradford Bradford · Academy sponsor led	40.8	-0.02 (-0.23 to 0.20)	35%	54%	3.31	172
17	Beckfoot Thornton Bradford · Academy sponsor led	39.4	-0.22 (-0.39 to -0.04)	31%	52%	3.28	254
18	Carlton Keighley Keighley · Academy sponsor led	39.2	-0.13 (-0.38 to 0.12)	26%	51%	3.01	129
19	Appleton Academy Bradford · Academy sponsor led	38.4	-0.56 (-0.78 to -0.33)	24%	45%	3.02	159
20	Tong Leadership Academy Bradford · Academy sponsor led	38.2	-0.26 (-0.49 to -0.04)	32%	52%	3.41	170
21	Beckfoot Upper Heaton Bradford · Academy sponsor led	36.9	-0.40 (-0.64 to -0.16)	33%	54%	3.03	138
22	Oasis Academy Lister Park Bradford · Academy sponsor led	36.7	-0.13 (-0.36 to 0.10)	33%	46%	3.17	162
23	Beckfoot Oakbank Keighley · Academy sponsor led	36.5	-0.71 (-0.88 to -0.55)	24%	43%	2.96	274
24	Buttershaw Business & Enterprise College Academy Bradford · Academy sponsor led	35.6	-0.75 (-0.91 to -0.58)	24%	45%	2.91	294
25	Valley Academy Bradford · Free schools	35.0	-0.29 (-0.63 to 0.05)	27%	49%	2.97	74
26	Bradford Academy Bradford · Academy sponsor led	33.8	-0.92 (-1.11 to -0.73)	22%	39%	2.87	231
27	Co-op Academy Grange Bradford · Academy sponsor led	33.1	-1.09 (-1.26 to -0.92)	24%	45%	2.85	296
28=	Hanson Academy Bradford · Academy sponsor led	32.2	-0.98 (-1.15 to -0.81)	32%	46%	2.65	274
28=	The Holy Family Catholic School Keighley · Academy sponsor led	32.2	-0.82 (-1.06 to -0.58)	15%	33%	2.63	140
30	Bradford Forster Academy Bradford · Academy sponsor led	32.0	-0.80 (-1.01 to -0.59)	28%	45%	2.73	186
31	Laisterdyke Leadership Academy Bradford · Academy sponsor led	31.7	-0.90 (-1.13 to -0.67)	24%	36%	2.71	166
–	Bronte Girls' Academy Bradford · Free schools · No published GCSE results for 2023	–	–	–	–	–	–
–	Eden Boys' Leadership Academy, Bradford Bradford · Free schools · No published GCSE results for 2023	–	–	–	–	–	–
–	Parkside School Bradford · Academy converter · No published GCSE results for 2023	–	–	–	–	–	–
–	St Bede's and St Joseph's Catholic College Bradford · Academy converter · No published GCSE results for 2023	–	–	–	–	–	–

Schools with the same Attainment 8 score share a rank (shown as "=").

Independent schools in Bradford with published 2023 GCSE results

Listed as published, not ranked. The DfE tables count only reformed GCSEs, so a school whose pupils sit IGCSE, Pre-U or the IB reports a lower figure than its results merit, or none at all. Compare independent schools on their own published examination results and inspection reports.

School	Attainment 8 (as published)	Grade 5+ English & maths	Pupils
Al Mumin Primary and Secondary School Bradford · Other independent school	43.7	53%	15
Bradford Christian School Bradford · Other independent school	34.1	50%	8
Bradford Grammar School Other independent school	27.9	1%	111
Darul Uloom Dawatul Imaan Bradford · Other independent school	60.5	73%	15
Eden Springs Girls Secondary Other independent school	57.1	59%	22
Eternal Light Bradford · Other independent school	51.1	63%	24
Jaamiatul Imaam Muhammad Zakaria Bradford · Other independent school	43.6	0%	59
The Fountain School Bradford · Other independent school	55.4	60%	10

How to read this table

Attainment 8 is the average points a school's pupils achieved across eight GCSE subjects: English and maths (double-weighted), three EBacc subjects (sciences, computing, history, geography, languages) and three further approved qualifications. The DfE publishes it for every state school; the England average for 2023 was 46.3.

Grade 5+ in English and maths is the share of pupils reaching a "strong pass" in both; grade 4+ is the "standard pass". EBacc APS is the average point score across the English Baccalaureate subjects, including pupils who did not enter them.

Progress 8 measures how much progress pupils made from the end of primary school to their GCSEs against pupils nationally with the same starting point; it is the like-for-like measure, and the range in brackets is its confidence interval.

Ranks are shared where scores tie. Schools are ranked here on published results alone; our composite score, which also weighs Ofsted inspection, progress and attendance, orders the same schools on the best secondary schools page.

This is the 2023 archive of the table: each school's 2023 figures, ranked within that year, so a school with no 2023 figure is listed unranked even where it has results for a later year. The main Bradford GCSE results page always ranks the newest year the DfE has published.

See the best secondary schools in Bradford on our composite score

Bradford GCSE results 2023: secondary school league table

Secondary schools in Bradford ranked on Attainment 8

Independent schools in Bradford with published 2023 GCSE results

More about schools in Bradford

Bradford GCSE results: common questions