Beckfoot Heaton Primary
Primary · Academy converter · Ages 2–11 · Bradford
Last distance offered · Reception 2026
Every applicant was offered a place
From Bradford Council · offers on 16 April 2026
2016–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Beckfoot Heaton Primary is a primary school in Bradford for ages 2–11 (academy converter). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Improved significantly, from the inspection on 26 March 2025. Bradford has published a last distance offered for this school for Reception 2016 to 2026 entry.
Beckfoot Heaton Primary catchment area: last distance offered
Parents often call this the catchment area: it's how far from the school the last child offered a place lived. It changes every year.
| Entry | Last distance offered |
|---|---|
| Reception 2026 | Every applicant was offered a place |
| Reception 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2023 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2022 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2021 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2020 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Reception 2019 | 🔒 With a pass |
And 2 earlier figures.
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- In 2024/25, 81% met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (England 62%), the highest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest primary schools in Bradford.
- Ofsted's latest outcome was Improved significantly (26 March 2025), following a previous graded outcome of Good (13 November 2019).
- Places ran out in all 8 earlier years with a published Reception outcome, and the last distance swung sharply between some years; in 2026 every applicant was offered a place.
- Reception 2026 drew 86 first-choice applications for 86 offers, and every first-choice family was offered a place.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Bradford schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Haworth Road, Bradford, BD9 6LL
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 2–11
- Council
- Bradford
- Pupils on roll
- 752 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 33.4% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 21.6
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Improved significantly Inspected 26 March 2025
Strengths
- “At Beckfoot Heaton, everyone works together to ensure that every pupil is able to have a ‘great life’.”
- “This includes having high expectations for how pupils behave and achieve.”
- “Pupils meet these expectations extremely well.”
To improve
- “The school recognises that pupil attendance is not consistently strong for all pupils.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 14 May 2025 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Exam results
| Measure | School | England |
|---|---|---|
| Key stage 2 · reading, writing and maths, expected standard (2024/25) | 81% | 62% |
Department for Education school performance data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Reception entry: 86 first-preference applications, 86 offers in total, 86 offers to first-preference applicants.
Department for Education, school-level applications and offers, figures on national offer day. Earlier years are in the pass.
Nearby primary schools
Straight-line distance, in Bradford.
- Cottingley Village Primary School 0.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Sandy Lane Primary School 0.9 mi Good Last distance published
- Heaton St Barnabas' CofE Aided Primary School 0.9 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- Margaret McMillan Primary School 1.0 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Beckfoot Allerton Primary School and Nursery 1.0 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Lady Royd Primary School 1.0 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Carlton Mills 1.1 mi Good
- St Cuthbert and the First Martyrs' Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy 1.1 mi Good Last distance published