All-through
Appleton Academy
Woodside Road, Bradford, BD12 8AL
Key facts
- Phase
- All-through
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Ages
- 3 to 16
- Intake
- Mixed
- Pupils
- 1207 of 1378 places
- Pupils per teacher
- 18.1
- Local authority
- Bradford
- Nursery
- Yes
- SEN provision
- SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty, SLCN - Speech, language and Communication, ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder
- Trust
- EXCEED ACADEMIES TRUST
Staffing23/24
- Teachers (FTE)
- 68.8
- All staff (FTE)
- 103.8
- Pupils per adult
- 12.0
- Pupils
- 1,245
Staff are counted as full-time equivalents in the November school workforce census, so the pupil figure here is that census’s own and will differ a little from the roll above, which is counted in January.
Ofsted
Last inspected November 2021
Good
- Behaviour and attitudesGood
- Early yearsGood
- Leadership and governanceGood
- Personal developmentGood
- Quality of educationGood
Inspected under the previous framework, which used its own four-point scale. Ofsted now publishes a report card grading several areas separately, so these grades are not directly comparable with a recent inspection’s.
SafeguardingMet
Read the full Ofsted report (opens in a new tab)GCSE results
27%
35.1
1st of 3 by our score, among the all-through schools in Bradford we can score - 4 in total, the rest without enough published data. Local and same-phase on purpose: a national table mostly measures who attends.
All published measures2024/2025
| Measure | Result |
|---|---|
| Average maths score | 106 |
| Average reading score | 107 |
| Reading, writing and maths | 63% |
| Working at a higher standard | 12% |
| Attainment 8 | 35.1 |
| EBacc average point score | 2.84 |
| Entered the EBacc | 15% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 42% |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 27% |
From the Department for Education. Measures are published per year and suppressed where a cohort is too small, so some schools show fewer. There are no results for 2019/20 or 2020/21, when exams and assessments were cancelled.
Results over time4 years
Each measure on its own scale, over every year we hold.
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 22/23 | 59% |
| 23/24 | 55% |
| 24/25 | 63% |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 23% |
| 22/23 | 24% |
| 23/24 | 21% |
| 24/25 | 27% |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 22/23 | 104.0 |
| 23/24 | 104.0 |
| 24/25 | 107.0 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | -0.57 |
| 22/23 | -0.56 |
| 23/24 | -0.87 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 22/23 | 104.0 |
| 23/24 | 106.0 |
| 24/25 | 106.0 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 39.0 |
| 22/23 | 38.4 |
| 23/24 | 34.1 |
| 24/25 | 35.1 |
Woodside Road, Bradford, BD12 8AL
Admissions
How to apply (opens in a new tab)
You apply through your council, not the school - even for academies and free schools. Applications close on 15 January, the year before starting.
Bradford admissions (opens in a new tab)
The council publishes the oversubscription criteria and last year’s offer distances, which is the closest thing to knowing your chances.
If you are refused a place (opens in a new tab)
You can appeal, and you can join a waiting list at the same time. Accept whatever offer you get first - declining it can leave you with no place at all.
This school’s own admissions (opens in a new tab)
Schools that set their own criteria - faith schools, grammars, academies - publish them on their own site.
Contact
- Headteacher
- Rachel Cruise
- Address
- Woodside Road, Bradford, BD12 8AL
- Telephone
- 01274600550