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Secondary school in Keighley, Bradford

Beckfoot Oakbank

Oakworth Road, Keighley, West Yorkshire, BD22 7DU

Sixth form
School website 01535210111

Ofsted

Inspected under the current framework, which gives no overall grade, on 21 January 2025.

Inspections since September 2024 do not give an overall grade, so there is no one-word judgement to report. The full report sets out what inspectors found.

Read the Ofsted report

GCSE results 2024/25

Attainment 8 score

35.3 England 47

The average grade across eight GCSEs, doubling English and maths. 50 is roughly a grade 5 average.

Grade 5+ in English & maths

26% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

51% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

3 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

27% England 40.8%

On Attainment 8 this school is in the bottom 10% of state-funded secondaries in England.

Compared with the fifth of schools whose intake is most disadvantaged, which is where this one sits, it is in the bottom quarter.

Progress 8 2023/24

-0.62confidence interval -0.79 to -0.46

Taking that range into account, pupils made less progress than similar pupils nationally. DfE bands this as well below average.

Progress 8 measures how far pupils moved between the end of primary and their GCSEs, which makes it far fairer than raw attainment. It is shown for 2023/24 because it could not be calculated for 2024/25: that year group would have sat their key stage 2 tests in summer 2020, when the tests were cancelled, so there is no starting point to measure from. Every school in England is affected, not just this one.

A levels 2024/25

Average grade per entry
C
Average points per entry
31.2

England average 32.3

A level students
59

Pupils

Pupils on roll
1394
Places
1800
How full
77% full — 1394 of 1800 places taken, so places are likely to be available
Girls / boys
696 / 698
Overall absence
15%

secondary schools average 8.6%

Persistently absent
38%

secondary schools average 23.9% — pupils missing 10% or more of sessions

Free school meals, last 6 years
38%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
18%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
3%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
18%

England 15%

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
88%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
82%

England 85.4%

Started an apprenticeship
4%

England 3.5%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
29%
No sustained destination
8%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
274

After sixth form

Went to university
53%

England 50%

In education, work or training
90%

England 84.3%

Started an apprenticeship
6%

England 6.5%

Students in the cohort
80

Going on to university 2021/22 leavers

Went to a top third university

21% England 20.9%

The third of higher education providers whose entrants hold the highest average entry qualifications. It is the closest thing in the public data to "did they get into a competitive university", and it separates schools far more sharply than the headline progression rate does.

Went on to a degree
84%

England 65.3%

Students in the cohort
73

These follow an earlier group of leavers than the figures above, and count anyone reaching higher education within two years rather than the term after leaving, so they are not directly comparable with them.

A destination counts only if it lasted at least six months, which is why these figures lag the exam results by a year, and why the university figures track leavers from 2021/22. Small cohorts move these percentages a long way — check the cohort size before reading much into a gap.

The neighbourhood around the school

Census 2021 figures for Bradford 012A, the statistical neighbourhood the school sits in — roughly 1,500 residents. It describes the area, not the pupils, who may travel in from further away.

Adults with a degree
24%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
21%

England 18.3%

Households owning their home
60%

England 62.7%

Households in social housing
26%

England 17%

Households with no car
27%

England 21.9%

Adults economically inactive
44%

England 39.9%

School details

Type
Academy sponsor led
Phase
Secondary
Ages
Ages 11–18
Gender
Mixed
Admissions
Non-selective
Religious character
None
Sixth form
Yes
Nursery
No
Boarding
Day school
Trust
BECKFOOT TRUST
Headteacher
Headteacher: Andrew Burton
Local authority
Bradford
Ward
Keighley West
Constituency
Keighley and Ilkley
URN
143112

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Nearest secondary schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Distance
The Holy Family Catholic School, a Voluntary AcademyAcademy sponsor led No grade 28.8 1.5 mi
Carlton KeighleyAcademy sponsor led No grade 38.6 1.8 mi
Parkside SchoolAcademy converter Inadequate 2023 36.7 2.3 mi
Bingley Grammar SchoolVoluntary aided school Good 2023 46.5 3.3 mi
South Craven SchoolAcademy converter Good 2023 47.5 4 mi
Beckfoot SchoolAcademy converter No grade 53 4.1 mi
Dixons Cottingley AcademyAcademy sponsor led Good 2022 46.7 4.8 mi
Belle Vue Girls' AcademyAcademy converter No grade 43.2 5.2 mi

Schools with a similar intake

State-funded secondary schools nationally whose share of disadvantaged pupils is closest to this school's. This is the fairest like-for-like comparison the published data supports.

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8
Stretford High SchoolFoundation school No grade 44.4
Copthall SchoolAcademy converter Good 2023 47.4
Buttershaw Business & Enterprise College AcademyAcademy sponsor led No grade 36.6
The Charles Dickens SchoolAcademy sponsor led Good 2023 42.5
Hetton AcademyAcademy converter No grade 51.8
Outwood Academy KirkbyAcademy converter No grade 36.1
Withernsea High SchoolCommunity school No grade 38.9
Harris City Academy Crystal PalaceAcademy sponsor led No grade 52.3

Where these figures come from

  • School details, address and pupil numbers — Get Information About Schools, the DfE register, as at 14 August 2026.
  • Exam results — DfE performance tables, 2024/25, and 2023/24 for Progress 8.
  • Free school meals, EAL and SEN — school census, 2024/25.
  • Ofsted — Ofsted management information, latest inspections as at 30 June 2026.
  • Neighbourhood figures — ONS Census 2021, lower layer super output area.

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