Bronte Girls' Academy
Secondary · Free schools · Ages 11–16 · Bradford
Last distance offered · Year 7 2026
2.024 miles
Published by Bradford Council · offers on 2 March 2026
2018–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Bronte Girls' Academy is a secondary school in Bradford for ages 11–16 (free schools). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Good, from the inspection on 23 January 2024. Bradford has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2018 to 2026 entry.
Bronte Girls' Academy 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 |
|---|---|
| Year 7 2026 | 2.024 mi |
| Year 7 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2023 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2022 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2021 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2019 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2018 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- In 2026, the last child offered a Year 7 place lived 2.024 miles away, the 4th longest of 12 Bradford secondary schools with a published last distance (middle 1.48 miles).
- For Year 7, the 2026 last distance was further from the school than in 2025 and 2021, and the longest of the 6 years with a published distance.
- For Year 7 2026, there were 96 first-choice applications for 149 offers; 86 offers went to first-choice families and 10 first-choice families were not offered a place.
- 2024/25: 46% got grade 5 or above in GCSE English and maths (England 45%), the 4th highest of 9 schools: this one and the 8 nearest secondary schools in Bradford.
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
- Bolling Road, East Bowling, Bradford, BD4 7EB
- Type
- Free schools
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–16
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Bradford
- Pupils on roll
- 709 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 37.9% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 14.8
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Good Inspected 23 January 2024
Strengths
- “Pupils’ behaviour in lessons and around the school is exemplary.”
- “They are welcoming and friendly members of the school community.”
- “Relationships between members of the school are grounded in mutual respect.”
To improve
- “However, some pupils do not access an equally rich set of experiences.”
- “Opportunities such as this, and others to develop pupils’ talents and interests, are not well used by some pupils.”
- “Other aspects, such as careers being linked into subject curriculums, are still being embedded.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 8 May 2024 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Exam results
| Measure | School | England |
|---|---|---|
| GCSE English and maths, grade 5 or above (2024/25) | 46% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 48.9 | 46 |
Department for Education school performance data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Year 7 entry: 96 first-preference applications, 149 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 secondary schools
Straight-line distance, in Bradford.
- Dixons City Academy 0.6 mi Standards maintained Last distance published
- Dixons Trinity Academy 0.6 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Dixons McMillan Academy 0.8 mi Good Last distance published
- Bradford Forster Academy 1.0 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Carlton Bolling 1.2 mi School remains Outstanding Last distance published
- Feversham Girls' Secondary Academy 1.4 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Valley Academy 1.5 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Laisterdyke Leadership Academy 1.5 mi Good Last distance published