Appleton Academy
All-through · Bradford · BD12 8AL
Graded inspection under the pre-November 2025 system
This is an overall-effectiveness grade from the previous inspection framework. The school has not yet had a report-card inspection.
Inspected 3 November 2021
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1,207 pupils · 88% of 1,378 capacity
- School type
- Academy sponsor led
- Age range
- 3–16
- Gender
- Mixed
- Free school meals
- 50.8% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 10.4% of pupils
- SEN support
- 19.3% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 6.1% of pupils
- Nursery
- Yes
- Website
- www.appletonacademy.co.uk
- URN
- 145173
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
0.79 first-choice applications per place24 places offered · 19 first-choice applications · usually has places
First-choice applications per place, by entry year
Applications and offers on national offer day, DfE. A ratio above 1.00 means more families named this school first choice than there were places.
Admissions demand: Year 7 entry, September 2026
1.01 first-choice applications per place163 places offered · 164 first-choice applications · oversubscribed
First-choice applications per place, by entry year
Applications and offers on national offer day, DfE. A ratio above 1.00 means more families named this school first choice than there were places.
Key stage 2 results (2024/2025)
52 pupils at the end of key stage 2 in 2024/2025
GCSE results (2024/2025)
163 pupils at the end of key stage 4 in 2024/2025
Progress 8 is suspended nationally for 2024/25 and 2025/26. These cohorts sat no key stage 2 tests (COVID), so there is no baseline to measure progress from.
Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025. “Suppressed” means the DfE withholds figures for very small cohorts.
Attendance (2025/26 autumn term)
Autumn-term absence, DfE pupil absence data. Lower is better.
Staffing
Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.
Teacher retention (2024/25)
87% of teachers stayed at the school the following year · 7% moved to another state school · 6% left the state-funded sector
School Workforce Census, DfE. The ratio counts full-time-equivalent qualified teachers; retention follows teachers in post one November to the next. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Spending per pupil
Total expenditure ÷ pupils, academy finance return (DfE Schools Financial Benchmarking, latest year). Higher spending is not a measure of quality. It often reflects greater pupil need or a smaller school. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Where pupils go after GCSEs
Destinations measured the year after leaving, latest DfE destination measures release.
Inspection history since 2015
- 3 November 2021: Good
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.