GCSE results 2026

Bradford GCSE results 2026

Provisional 2025/26 results for 35 state secondary schools in Bradford, 7,064 pupils. Bradford ranks 142 of 151 councils for Attainment 8, which rose by 0.6 points on 2025.

Grade 5+ English & maths

39.7%

8.1 pts below England

Grade 7+ English & maths

10.6%

4.1 pts below England

Attainment 8

42.2

5.4 points below England

Council rank

142 / 151

By average Attainment 8

Bradford at a glance

Highest Attainment 8: Ilkley Grammar School (56.6).
Schools range from 30.1 to 56.6 on Attainment 8, a spread of 26.5 points, so the school you choose matters more than the council average.
Disadvantaged pupils averaged 34.9, 12.2 points behind their classmates (a smaller gap than England’s 13.8). They did best at Dixons McMillan Academy (51.6).
Most improved on 2025: Tong Leadership Academy, up 8.3 points to 34.7.

Every Bradford secondary school, ranked

Ranked by Attainment 8 · 2025/26 provisional · E&M: English and maths

#	School	Pupils	Attainment 8	vs 2025	Grade 4+ E&M	Grade 5+ E&M	Grade 7+ E&M	Disadvantaged A8
1	Ilkley Grammar SchoolTop 10% three years running	319	56.6	+0.1	78.1%	58.3%	27.3%	40.1
2	Feversham Girls' Secondary AcademyGirls · Muslim	118	55.3	+0.5	73.7%	52.5%	16.9%	50.7
3	Dixons Kings Academy	168	54.7	+2.0	76.8%	63.7%	26.2%	49.2
4	Dixons City Academy	184	52.5	+3.0	74.5%	57.1%	24.5%	47.7
5	Dixons Trinity Academy	138	52.5	+1.1	71.7%	54.3%	21.7%	47.9
6	Dixons McMillan Academy	130	52.2	+4.9	76.9%	53.1%	16.9%	51.6
7	Beckfoot School	262	51.5	−1.5	73.7%	58.4%	18.7%	34.8
8	Eden Boys' Leadership Academy, BradfordBoys · Muslim	117	49.8	+0.7	77.8%	65.8%	15.4%	46.1
9	Bronte Girls' AcademyGirls	148	47.9	−1.0	65.5%	43.9%	8.8%	42.9
10	Bradford Girls' Grammar SchoolGirls	131	46.8	+2.0	64.9%	45.0%	9.2%	44.3
11	Bingley Grammar School	331	45.6	−0.9	65.6%	45.0%	10.6%	37.8
12	St Bede's and St Joseph's Catholic College, A Voluntary AcademyRoman Catholic	284	45.4	+0.9	67.6%	47.2%	10.6%	37.7
13	Trinity Academy Bradford	158	45.0	+1.1	68.4%	44.3%	6.3%	40.4
14	Dixons Cottingley Academy	173	44.5	−2.2	60.1%	40.5%	14.5%	40.1
15	Belle Vue Girls' AcademyGirls	171	44.4	+1.2	63.2%	46.2%	12.9%	39.7
16	Carlton Bolling	317	43.8	−0.6	58.4%	37.5%	11.7%	39.4
17	Dixons Allerton Academy	249	41.9	+0.2	57.0%	39.0%	11.6%	37.6
18	Immanuel CollegeChurch of England	289	41.8	−0.1	60.2%	39.8%	7.3%	27.3
19	One In A Million Free School	75	41.1	+2.4	60.0%	42.7%	16.0%	39.5
20	Titus Salt School	242	40.8	−0.1	55.8%	35.1%	9.9%	28.9
21	Carlton Keighley	145	40.4	+1.8	63.4%	43.4%	9.0%	34.8
22	Laisterdyke Leadership Academy	175	38.1	+2.0	51.4%	36.6%	8.6%	34.7
23	Beckfoot Oakbank	268	37.7	+2.4	48.5%	29.1%	4.9%	31.5
24	Bradford Forster AcademyChurch of England	193	37.7	+5.0	50.3%	33.2%	6.7%	30.3
25	Beckfoot Upper Heaton	133	36.4	−0.9	50.4%	33.1%	8.3%	33.0
26	Parkside School	214	36.4	−0.3	48.1%	22.4%	2.3%	27.3
27	Hanson Academy	263	36.3	+1.2	56.7%	44.9%	6.5%	29.4
28	Appleton Academy	168	36.0	+0.9	47.0%	23.8%	3.0%	30.4
29	Oasis Academy Lister Park	161	35.7	+4.1	43.5%	29.2%	5.6%	33.2
30	Buttershaw Business & Enterprise College Academy	271	35.3	−1.3	41.0%	24.0%	5.2%	26.1
31	Bradford AcademyChurch of England	226	35.2	+2.1	46.5%	27.9%	5.3%	30.8
32	Tong Leadership Academy	163	34.7	+8.3	55.2%	36.8%	7.4%	31.2
33	Beckfoot Thornton	242	34.0	−6.2	45.9%	24.0%	5.0%	25.9
34	The Holy Family Catholic School, a Voluntary AcademyRoman Catholic	146	31.7	+2.9	41.1%	21.2%	3.4%	24.8
35	Co-op Academy Grange	292	30.1	+1.0	33.6%	17.8%	2.7%	26.0
	England average		47.6		66.8%	47.8%	14.7%	37.7

Disadvantaged A8: Attainment 8 of pupils eligible for free school meals in the last six years or looked after; blank where the school has too few to publish. Small year groups move more from year to year.

Bradford against the rest of Yorkshire and The Humber

Grade 5+ in English and maths, 2026

Reading these figures

Attainment 8 is out of 90: a pupil’s grades in eight GCSE slots added up, with English and maths counted twice.
There is no Progress 8 this year (these pupils sat no KS2 SATs), so results partly reflect each school’s intake.
These are provisional figures; revised ones with re-marks follow in early 2027.
Source: Department for Education, Key stage 4 performance (school-level data). Council figures are our pupil-weighted calculation over state-funded mainstream schools; independent schools are not included.