Overall Oxbridge
#806
11 ranked schools · +108 places vs Eng avg #914 of 1,984
Applications
66
Offers
19
Offer rate28.8%
+6.4 pts vs Eng avgEng avg 22.4%
In the eastern foothills of the Pennines, Bradford grew across the 19th century from a cluster of textile villages into one of the Industrial Revolution's great boomtowns, its worsted mills drawing workers from across Britain and beyond to become the world's leading wool-trading city. Granted a municipal borough charter in 1847 and city status in 1897, the city produced grand Victorian and Italianate civic buildings that still define the centre, including the elaborate Italianate city hall. Little Horton is among Bradford's most school-competitive corners for primary catchments, while Undercliffe draws families to the northern residential slopes above the centre. Barkerend and Manningham form the inner residential belt flanking the city centre, with Apperley Bridge extending the district northward towards the Leeds boundary. Bradford Interchange connects the city to Leeds. The wider West Yorkshire Metro rail and bus network links outlying neighbourhoods across the district. Around 352,000 people live in the city itself, within a metropolitan borough of nearly 547,000 at the 2021 census.
Area Performance
Across 172 primary, secondary and sixth-form schools, state and independent. The average Find My School Inspection Score is 7.19/10, -0.22 vs England.
Find My School Inspection Band
Distribution across all Bradford schools
Bradford vs England distribution
National Rank
Across all ranked Bradford schools
top 61% of 14,978
top 61% of 14,978
top 60% of 3,862
top 60% of 3,862
top 59% of 2,555
top 59% of 2,555
Overall Oxbridge
11 ranked schools · +108 places vs Eng avg #914 of 1,984
Applications
66
Offers
19
Oxford
4 ranked schools · +3 places vs Eng avg #253 of 1,198
Applications
22
Offers
4
Cambridge
11 ranked schools · +72 places vs Eng avg #773 of 1,881
Applications
44
Offers
15
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