Which school had the best GCSE results in Bradford in 2024?

On 2024 Attainment 8, Ilkley Grammar School topped the table in Bradford with 56.5, against an England average of 45.9. 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 2024 archive (the 2023/24 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 2024 GCSE results?

A school has no published figure for 2024 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 2024: secondary school league table

35 state secondary schools in Bradford ranked on their 2024 GCSE results (Attainment 8, the 2023/24 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. 8 independent schools with published results are listed separately, unranked.

This is the 2024 archive of the table. See the latest Bradford GCSE results for the newest year the DfE has published.

Local Authority 35 state secondary schools 2023/24 results Archive year

Secondary schools in Bradford ranked on Attainment 8

35 of 35 schools have published 2024 results. Source: DfE school performance tables, 2023/24.

Secondary schools in Bradford ranked on Attainment 8, 2024 results
Rank	School	Attainment 8	Progress 8	Grade 5+ English & maths	Grade 4+ English & maths	EBacc APS	Pupils
–	England average	45.9	0.00	46%	65%	4.07	–
1 , up 2 places since 2023	Ilkley Grammar School Ilkley · Academy converter	56.5	+0.54 (0.38 to 0.69)	64%	79%	4.93	321
2 , down 1 place since 2023	Dixons Trinity Academy Bradford · Free schools	54.7	+0.72 (0.45 to 0.99)	65%	77%	4.93	116
3 , up 2 places since 2023	Dixons Kings Academy Bradford · Free schools	53.4	+0.54 (0.32 to 0.76)	57%	74%	4.97	169
4	Feversham Girls' Secondary Academy Bradford · Academy converter	52.4	+0.68 (0.42 to 0.94)	48%	68%	4.88	120
5 , down 3 places since 2023	Dixons City Academy Bradford · Academy sponsor led	51.8	+0.33 (0.11 to 0.55)	50%	71%	4.78	175
6	Eden Boys' Leadership Academy, Bradford Bradford · Free schools	51.3	+0.15 (-0.11 to 0.42)	63%	80%	4.55	113
7	Bronte Girls' Academy Bradford · Free schools	51.2	+0.21 (-0.04 to 0.46)	58%	76%	4.69	127
8 , down 1 place since 2023	Beckfoot School Bingley · Academy converter	50.4	+0.42 (0.25 to 0.60)	55%	74%	4.64	267
9 , up 3 places since 2023	Dixons Cottingley Academy Bingley · Academy sponsor led	50.1	+0.65 (0.43 to 0.87)	54%	75%	4.54	179
10 , down 1 place since 2023	Bingley Grammar School Bingley · Voluntary aided school	48.9	-0.03 (-0.19 to 0.12)	52%	69%	4.29	326
11 , down 3 places since 2023	Dixons McMillan Academy Bradford · Free schools	47.8	-0.16 (-0.43 to 0.11)	50%	71%	4.54	114
12 , down 6 places since 2023	Bradford Girls' Grammar School Bradford · Free schools	46.9	+0.11 (-0.15 to 0.38)	44%	64%	4.38	114
13	St Bede's and St Joseph's Catholic College Bradford · Academy converter	45.5	-0.15 (-0.32 to 0.01)	37%	64%	4.00	294
14 , down 3 places since 2023	Belle Vue Girls' Academy Bradford · Academy converter	43.8	+0.16 (-0.05 to 0.37)	42%	63%	4.14	190
15 , up 1 place since 2023	Trinity Academy Bradford Bradford · Academy sponsor led	43.7	-0.02 (-0.25 to 0.20)	41%	60%	3.97	162
16 , down 3 places since 2023	Dixons Allerton Academy Bradford · Academy sponsor led	43.4	-0.22 (-0.40 to -0.03)	44%	63%	3.97	242
17 , down 2 places since 2023	Carlton Bolling Bradford · Academy converter	43.0	+0.27 (0.11 to 0.43)	39%	55%	3.58	323
18 , down 8 places since 2023	Immanuel College Bradford · Academy converter	40.6	-0.56 (-0.73 to -0.40)	29%	50%	3.16	283
19 , down 5 places since 2023	Titus Salt School Bradford · Community school	39.1	-0.58 (-0.75 to -0.40)	32%	50%	3.30	254
20 , down 3 places since 2023	Beckfoot Thornton Bradford · Academy sponsor led	37.3	-0.49 (-0.67 to -0.32)	28%	47%	3.32	257
21 , up 9 places since 2023	Bradford Forster Academy Bradford · Academy sponsor led	37.0	-0.54 (-0.75 to -0.33)	33%	50%	3.27	187
22	Parkside School Bradford · Academy converter	36.9	-0.86 (-1.05 to -0.66)	25%	48%	3.17	202
23 , down 5 places since 2023	Carlton Keighley Keighley · Academy sponsor led	36.3	-0.29 (-0.54 to -0.05)	27%	50%	2.90	143
24 , down 1 place since 2023	Beckfoot Oakbank Keighley · Academy sponsor led	36.0	-0.62 (-0.79 to -0.46)	27%	48%	2.98	286
25= , up 6 places since 2023	Laisterdyke Leadership Academy Bradford · Academy sponsor led	35.8	-0.43 (-0.66 to -0.20)	35%	51%	3.28	165
25= , down 5 places since 2023	Tong Leadership Academy Bradford · Academy sponsor led	35.8	-0.61 (-0.85 to -0.37)	37%	50%	3.15	149
27 , up 1 place since 2023	Hanson Academy Bradford · Academy sponsor led	35.0	-0.69 (-0.86 to -0.51)	39%	52%	2.94	268
28 , down 9 places since 2023	Appleton Academy Bradford · Academy sponsor led	34.1	-0.87 (-1.09 to -0.65)	21%	40%	2.64	168
29 , down 1 place since 2023	The Holy Family Catholic School Keighley · Academy sponsor led	34.0	-0.59 (-0.81 to -0.36)	23%	41%	2.88	154
30 , down 4 places since 2023	Bradford Academy Bradford · Academy sponsor led	33.1	-0.94 (-1.13 to -0.76)	25%	44%	2.90	230
31 , down 7 places since 2023	Buttershaw Business & Enterprise College Academy Bradford · Academy sponsor led	33.0	-0.83 (-0.99 to -0.66)	21%	36%	2.87	290
32 , down 11 places since 2023	Beckfoot Upper Heaton Bradford · Academy sponsor led	32.7	-0.71 (-0.95 to -0.48)	28%	45%	3.01	150
33 , down 11 places since 2023	Oasis Academy Lister Park Bradford · Academy sponsor led	32.6	-0.58 (-0.81 to -0.35)	28%	42%	2.91	161
34 , down 9 places since 2023	Valley Academy Bradford · Free schools	30.8	-1.01 (-1.36 to -0.66)	17%	31%	2.61	71
35 , down 8 places since 2023	Co-op Academy Grange Bradford · Academy sponsor led	30.5	-1.20 (-1.38 to -1.03)	23%	44%	2.61	274

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

Under each rank: the change since the 2023 table, in places gained (+) or lost (−). No figure means the rank is unchanged or the school had no ranked 2023 result.

Independent schools in Bradford with published 2024 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	44.2	50%	10
Bradford Christian School Bradford · Other independent school	50.3	56%	18
Bradford Grammar School Other independent school	27.5	0%	134
Darul Uloom Dawatul Imaan Bradford · Other independent school	57.5	71%	21
Eden Springs Girls Secondary Other independent school	54.3	40%	15
Eternal Light Bradford · Other independent school	50.3	59%	27
Jaamiatul Imaam Muhammad Zakaria Bradford · Other independent school	43.5	0%	62
The Fountain School Bradford · Other independent school	59.4	63%	8

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 2024 was 45.9.

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 2024 archive of the table: each school's 2024 figures, ranked within that year, so a school with no 2024 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 2024: secondary school league table

Secondary schools in Bradford ranked on Attainment 8

Independent schools in Bradford with published 2024 GCSE results

More about schools in Bradford

Bradford GCSE results: common questions