Beckfoot Oakbank
Ofsted: Requires improvement
Score
F30
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Secondary
- Location
- Keighley, BD22 7DU
- Distance
- 3.8km away
Parkside School
Parkside Terrace, Cullingworth, Bradford, BD13 5AD
Local ranking34th of 35 secondary schools in Bradford
Ofsted: Needs attentionUpdated— score data refreshed 20 October 2026
Secondary
Phase
1374
Capacity
11-18
Age range
Mixed
Gender
Latest data: 2026 GCSEs · 2025 A-levels · Ofsted inspection 7 July 2026. Figures last updated .
School history and status
Continues from Parkside School (URN 132217) since 1 September 2023. Results, demographics and trends from before then are that school's, shown here so the record is unbroken.
Placed in a category of concern: Special measures.
Safeguarding standards Met
- Achievement
- Urgent improvement
- Curriculum & teaching
- Needs attention
- Attendance & behaviour
- Urgent improvement
- Personal development & wellbeing
- Needs attention
- Leadership & governance
- Urgent improvement
- Inclusion
- Needs attention
Scale: Exceptional · Strong · Expected · Needs attention · Urgent improvement
Year:
GCSE Results
2025-26- Average Attainment 8
- 36.4 nat46.2
- Grade 5+ Eng & Maths
- 22.4% nat46.3%
- Grade 4+ Eng & Maths
- 48.1% nat64.8%
- Cohort Size
- 214
Destinations
After GCSE 2024-25
- Sustained education/employment
- 93.0%
- Continued in education
- 86.0%
- Apprenticeships
- 5.0%
- Employment
- 2.0%
- Not sustained
- 3.0%
After A-Levels 2024-25
- Sustained education/employment
- 86.0%
- Higher education
- 54.0%
- Apprenticeships
- 14.0%
- Employment
- 12.0%
- Not sustained
- 11.0%
A-Level Results
2024-25*Data not available for 2025-26 — showing latest available results
D+
Avg A-Level Grade
23.1
Avg Points/Entry
nat 35.0
21.4
Best 3 A-Levels
nat 35.8
37
A-Level Students
- AAB+ with Facilitating
- 4.3% nat17.5%
- Applied General Avg Points
- 28.6
- 16-18 Cohort
- 83
Pupil Demographics
2024-25- Total Pupils
- 1102
- Boys
- 527 (50%)
- Girls
- 534 (50%)
- Capacity
- 1374 (77% full)
- SEND
- 18.9%
- FSM Eligible
- 24.6%
- EAL
- 2.2%
- SEN with EHC Plan
- 4.1%
- SEN Support
- 14.8%
- Pupil:Teacher Ratio
- 16.5:1
- Teachers (FTE)
- 67.0
- Budget per Pupil
- £7,846/yr
*Financial data not available for 2025-26 — showing 2024-25
Attendance & Absence
2024-25*Data not available for 2025-26 — showing latest available results
- Overall Absence Rate
- 12.3% nat6.2%
- Persistent Absence
- 32.4% nat15.8%
Persistent absence: pupils missing 10%+ of sessions.
School Information
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- Religious Character
- Does not apply
- Nursery
- No Nursery Classes
- Sixth Form
- Has a sixth form
- Boarders
- No boarders
- Admissions
- Non-selective
Pupil Ethnicity
Loading chart
- White British: 87.4%
- Mixed White & Black Caribbean: 2.9%
- White Other: 2.2%
- Mixed Other: 1.6%
- Mixed White & Asian: 1.6%
- Asian Pakistani: 1.4%
- Black African: 0.8%
- Asian Indian: 0.6%
87.4%
White British
2.9%
Mixed White & Black Caribbean
2.2%
White Other
Historical Trends
GCSE Performance
Pupil Demographics
Attendance & Absence
Contact & Location
Parkside Terrace
Bradford, Yorkshire and the Humber
Administrative
- URN
- 150001
- UKPRN
- 10092997
- Establishment No.
- 4112
- Trust
- WELLSPRING ACADEMY TRUST
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