Lightcliffe Academy
Ofsted: Good
Score
D50
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Secondary
- Location
- Halifax, HX3 8TL
- Distance
- 2.5km away
Appleton Academy
Woodside Road, Bradford, BD12 8AL
Local ranking27th of 35 secondary schools in Bradford
Ofsted: Expected
All-through
Phase
1378
Capacity
3-16
Age range
Mixed
Gender
Safeguarding standards Met
- Achievement
- Needs attention
- Curriculum & teaching
- Needs attention
- Attendance & behaviour
- Expected standard
- Personal development & wellbeing
- Expected standard
- Leadership & governance
- Needs attention
- Inclusion
- Expected standard
- Early years
- Expected standard
Scale: Exceptional · Strong · Expected · Needs attention · Urgent improvement
Year:
KS2 Results (Year 6 SATs)
2024-25- Reading, Writing & Maths (Expected)
- 63.0% nat62.0%
- Reading, Writing & Maths (Higher)
- 12.0% nat8.0%
- Reading (Expected)
- 81.0%
- Writing (Expected)
- 75.0%
- Maths (Expected)
- 75.0%
- Grammar, Punctuation & Spelling (Expected)
- 75.0%
- Reading avg scaled score
- 107.0 nat106.0
- Maths avg scaled score
- 106.0 nat105.0
- GPS avg scaled score
- 106.0
- Cohort Size
- 52
GCSE Results
2024-25- Average Attainment 8
- 35.1 nat46.0
- Grade 5+ Eng & Maths
- 27.0% nat45.4%
- Grade 4+ Eng & Maths
- 42.3% nat64.8%
- Entering EBacc
- 15.3% nat40.5%
- EBacc APS
- 2.8 nat4.1
- Cohort Size
- 163
Destinations
After GCSE 2024-25
- Sustained education/employment
- 86.0%
- Continued in education
- 82.0%
- Apprenticeships
- 3.0%
- Employment
- 2.0%
- Not sustained
- 8.0%
Pupil Demographics
2024-25- Total Pupils
- 1254
- Boys
- 649 (52%)
- Girls
- 605 (48%)
- Capacity
- 1378 (91% full)
- SEND
- 25.4%
- FSM Eligible
- 52.2%
- EAL
- 10.4%
- SEN with EHC Plan
- 6.1%
- SEN Support
- 19.3%
- Pupil:Teacher Ratio
- 15.4:1
- Teachers (FTE)
- 81.8
- Budget per Pupil
- £8,777/yr
Attendance & Absence
2024-25- Overall Absence Rate
- 9.1% nat6.2%
- Persistent Absence
- 26.0% nat15.8%
Persistent absence: pupils missing 10%+ of sessions.
School Information
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- All-through
- Nursery
- Has Nursery Classes
- Sixth Form
- Does not have a sixth form
Pupil Ethnicity
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- White British: 77.5%
- White Other: 4.9%
- Asian Pakistani: 4.2%
- Mixed White & Black Caribbean: 2.7%
- Black African: 2.2%
- Other: 2.2%
- Mixed White & Asian: 2.1%
- Mixed Other: 1.2%
77.5%
White British
4.9%
White Other
4.2%
Asian Pakistani
Historical Trends
GCSE Performance
KS2 Performance
Pupil Demographics
Attendance & Absence
Ethnicity Over Time
Contact & Location
Woodside Road
Bradford, Yorkshire and the Humber
Administrative
- URN
- 145173
- UKPRN
- 10065408
- Establishment No.
- 4061
- Trust
- EXCEED ACADEMIES TRUST
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