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Schools in Bradford

225 schools in the Bradford local authority.

Schools

225

Open schools

Pupils

98,506

2025–26 census

Good or better

92%

168 of 182 graded

Academic Performance

4.6

out of 10 · 217 schools

Ofsted ratings

Outstanding
26 14%
Good
142 78%
Requires improvement
12 7%
Inadequate
2 1%
25 inspected since 2024, no overall grade10 superseded by a report card18 not judged8 in a category of concern
4.6
Academic Performance

Averaged over 217 of 225 schools that can be scored

Pupils

98,506

pupils on roll

Boys 50%50% Girls

Ethnicity

White
43%
Asian
43%
Black
4%
Mixed
7%
Chinese
<1%
Any other group
2%
Unclassified
1%

Ethnicity from 209 of 225 schools (95,557 pupils). Independent schools report roll and sex only.

Pupil characteristics

Free school meals
32.6%

31,142 of 95,557 pupils · 209 of 225 schools

First language not English
34.9%

33,306 of 95,557 pupils · 209 of 225 schools

Young carers
<1%

178 of 94,677 pupils · 202 of 225 schools

Schools by phase

Primary
160
Secondary
36
All-through
1
Special
9
Nursery
7
PRU
2
Not recorded
10

Top primary schools in Bradford

The 20 highest-scoring primary schools here on Academic Performance, which combines the Ofsted judgement with DfE attainment.

Top secondary schools in Bradford

The 20 highest-scoring secondary schools here on Academic Performance, which combines the Ofsted judgement with DfE attainment.

Browse all 225 schools in Bradford — filter by phase or Ofsted rating.

About schools in Bradford

How many schools are there in Bradford?
Bradford has 225 open schools — 160 primary, 36 secondary, 9 special, 7 nursery, teaching 98,506 pupils in total.
How many schools in Bradford are rated Good or Outstanding?
168 of the 182 schools holding an Ofsted grade — 92% — are rated Good or Outstanding, including 26 rated Outstanding. That share is measured against graded schools, not all 225: a school inspected since September 2024 has no overall grade at all.
What is the average Academic Performance in Bradford?
4.6 out of 10, averaged across the 217 schools here that can be scored, where 5 is the national average. Academic Performance combines the Ofsted judgement with DfE attainment and is ranked against comparable schools, so it is neither figure on its own.
Why do some Bradford schools have no Ofsted rating?
43 schools in Bradford currently hold no overall grade. Ofsted stopped awarding single-word judgements in September 2024 and moved to a report card of separately graded areas, so schools inspected since then have no overall rating whatever the inspection found. Their profiles show the report card instead.
What does Bradford local authority do?
A local authority is the body responsible for state education in its area — the level most admissions and school-place decisions are made at. Bradford covers 225 schools and sits in the Yorkshire and The Humber region. It does not run academies or independent schools directly, though it still coordinates admissions for most of them.
How many pupils in Bradford are eligible for free school meals?
32.6% — 31,142 of 95,557 pupils at the 209 schools that report it. Independent schools file a return with roll and sex only, so they are outside this figure rather than counted as zero.

Part of the Yorkshire and The Humber region.