Which school had the best GCSE results in Bradford in 2025?

On 2025 Attainment 8, Ilkley Grammar School topped the table in Bradford with 56.5, against an England average of 46.1. 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 2025 archive (the 2024/25 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. No Progress 8 exists for 2025 because these pupils sat no Key Stage 2 tests in 2020.

Why does a school in Bradford show no 2025 GCSE results?

A school has no published figure for 2025 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 2025: secondary school league table

35 state secondary schools in Bradford ranked on their 2025 GCSE results (Attainment 8, the 2024/25 academic year), with grade 5+ and grade 4+ in English and maths, EBacc average point score and cohort size for each school against the England average. 7 independent schools with published results are listed separately, unranked.

This is the 2025 archive of the table. See the latest Bradford GCSE results for the newest year the DfE has published.

Local Authority 35 state secondary schools 2024/25 results Archive year

Secondary schools in Bradford ranked on Attainment 8

35 of 35 schools have published 2025 results. Source: DfE school performance tables, 2024/25.

Secondary schools in Bradford ranked on Attainment 8, 2025 results
Rank	School	Attainment 8	Grade 5+ English & maths	Grade 4+ English & maths	EBacc APS	Pupils
–	England average	46.1	45%	65%	4.09	–
1	Ilkley Grammar School Ilkley · Academy converter	56.5	67%	85%	5.03	311
2 , up 2 places since 2024	Feversham Girls' Secondary Academy Bradford · Academy converter	54.8	45%	74%	5.00	124
3 , up 5 places since 2024	Beckfoot School Bingley · Academy converter	53.0	58%	78%	4.91	272
4 , down 1 place since 2024	Dixons Kings Academy Bradford · Free schools	52.7	55%	72%	4.84	167
5 , down 3 places since 2024	Dixons Trinity Academy Bradford · Free schools	51.4	50%	69%	4.48	135
6 , down 1 place since 2024	Dixons City Academy Bradford · Academy sponsor led	49.5	50%	67%	4.52	179
7 , down 1 place since 2024	Eden Boys' Leadership Academy, Bradford Bradford · Free schools	49.1	57%	73%	4.48	124
8 , down 1 place since 2024	Bronte Girls' Academy Bradford · Free schools	48.9	46%	67%	4.41	148
9 , up 2 places since 2024	Dixons McMillan Academy Bradford · Free schools	47.3	51%	70%	4.46	139
10 , down 1 place since 2024	Dixons Cottingley Academy Bingley · Academy sponsor led	46.7	47%	62%	4.21	171
11 , down 1 place since 2024	Bingley Grammar School Bingley · Voluntary aided school	46.5	46%	66%	3.85	308
12	Bradford Girls' Grammar School Bradford · Free schools	44.8	37%	60%	4.02	143
13	St Bede's and St Joseph's Catholic College Bradford · Academy converter	44.5	45%	68%	3.51	289
14 , up 3 places since 2024	Carlton Bolling Bradford · Academy converter	44.4	45%	64%	3.71	338
15	Trinity Academy Bradford Bradford · Academy sponsor led	43.9	42%	65%	3.84	167
16 , down 2 places since 2024	Belle Vue Girls' Academy Bradford · Academy converter	43.2	32%	60%	3.98	181
17 , up 1 place since 2024	Immanuel College Bradford · Academy converter	41.9	42%	57%	3.36	286
18 , down 2 places since 2024	Dixons Allerton Academy Bradford · Academy sponsor led	41.7	38%	60%	3.72	240
19	Titus Salt School Bradford · Community school	40.9	35%	54%	3.31	249
20	Beckfoot Thornton Bradford · Academy sponsor led	40.2	35%	54%	3.76	259
21 , up 13 places since 2024	Valley Academy Bradford · Free schools	38.7	46%	62%	3.11	77
22 , up 1 place since 2024	Carlton Keighley Keighley · Academy sponsor led	38.6	37%	57%	3.08	144
23 , up 9 places since 2024	Beckfoot Upper Heaton Bradford · Academy sponsor led	37.3	31%	53%	3.26	141
24 , down 2 places since 2024	Parkside School Bradford · Academy converter	36.7	23%	43%	3.18	202
25 , up 6 places since 2024	Buttershaw Business & Enterprise College Academy Bradford · Academy sponsor led	36.6	31%	49%	3.21	282
26 , down 1 place since 2024	Laisterdyke Leadership Academy Bradford · Academy sponsor led	36.1	33%	53%	3.41	163
27 , down 3 places since 2024	Beckfoot Oakbank Keighley · Academy sponsor led	35.3	26%	51%	3.02	270
28=	Appleton Academy Bradford · Academy sponsor led	35.1	27%	42%	2.84	163
28= , down 1 place since 2024	Hanson Academy Bradford · Academy sponsor led	35.1	36%	51%	2.98	269
30	Bradford Academy Bradford · Academy sponsor led	33.1	23%	46%	2.94	221
31 , down 10 places since 2024	Bradford Forster Academy Bradford · Academy sponsor led	32.7	24%	42%	2.93	198
32 , up 1 place since 2024	Oasis Academy Lister Park Bradford · Academy sponsor led	31.6	26%	46%	2.88	158
33 , up 2 places since 2024	Co-op Academy Grange Bradford · Academy sponsor led	29.1	17%	33%	2.37	275
34 , down 5 places since 2024	The Holy Family Catholic School Keighley · Academy sponsor led	28.8	11%	32%	2.30	141
35 , down 10 places since 2024	Tong Leadership Academy Bradford · Academy sponsor led	26.4	18%	38%	2.26	146

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

Under each rank: the change since the 2024 table, in places gained (+) or lost (−). No figure means the rank is unchanged or the school had no ranked 2024 result.

Independent schools in Bradford with published 2025 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	17%	6
Bradford Christian School Bradford · Other independent school	42.3	22%	18
Bradford Grammar School Other independent school	22.3	1%	154
Darul Uloom Dawatul Imaan Bradford · Other independent school	43.2	53%	17
Eden Springs Girls Secondary Other independent school	53.3	43%	21
Eternal Light Bradford · Other independent school	44.3	74%	35
Jaamiatul Imaam Muhammad Zakaria Bradford · Other independent school	42.2	0%	46

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 2025 was 46.1.

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 is not shown: the DfE published no Progress 8 for 2025 because these pupils sat no Key Stage 2 tests in 2020, the baseline it is measured from. Attainment 8 rewards intake as well as teaching, so a selective school will usually top an attainment-only table.

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 2025 archive of the table: each school's 2025 figures, ranked within that year, so a school with no 2025 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 2025: secondary school league table

Secondary schools in Bradford ranked on Attainment 8

Independent schools in Bradford with published 2025 GCSE results

More about schools in Bradford

Bradford GCSE results: common questions