The School Record

Published admissions and inspection figures for schools in England, from the DfE, Ofsted and local authorities.

Dixons Allerton Academy

URN 135866 · All Through · Academy sponsor led · Bradford

Rhodesway, Bradford, BD8 0DH

How many families applied

Preferences expressed and offers made at Reception, as published by the Department for Education. These describe demand. They do not indicate whether any particular child would be offered a place.

In the 2025 intake, 60 families named Dixons Allerton Academy as their first preference, and the school made 59 offers.

That is 1.02 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 77% of schools admitting at Reception in England that year.

More first preferences per place than 77% of comparable schools position among schools in England admitting at Reception, 2025 intake

Fewer families are naming it first. Across the 5 most recent years held, first preferences per place averaged 1.25 in 2021–2022 and 0.97 in 2024–2025.

Applications and offers at Reception, 12 intake years
Intake 1st preferences All preferences Offers made 1st prefs per place
2025 60 123 59 1.02
2024 51 134 55 0.93
2023 94 185 57 1.65
2022 88 176 60 1.47
2021 62 170 60 1.03
2020 76 211 59 1.29
2019 55 173 60 0.92
2018 61 173 57 1.07
2017 64 202 60 1.07
2016 70 189 60 1.17
2015 69 224 59 1.17
2014 53 190 60 0.88

“Offers made” counts the offers the school made. It is not the number of places the school had, so please do not read it as one.

Ofsted

Ofsted changed its inspection framework: the current one publishes several graded areas and no single overall grade, while the previous one published an overall effectiveness grade. Each inspection below states which framework produced it.

Ofsted graded inspection (previous framework), 8 May 2024

Overall effectiveness: Requires improvement

Quality of education: Requires improvement

Behaviour and attitudes: Requires improvement

Personal development: Requires improvement

Leadership and management: Requires improvement

Early years: Good

Sixth form / post-16: Good

Ofsted's report for this school

Exam results

Published by the Department for Education for the whole year group. Figures for smaller cohorts are withheld by DfE to protect pupil privacy and appear here as a dash, not a zero.

Key stage 4 (GCSE)
YearAttainment 8Progress 8 Grade 4+ English & mathsEBacc grade 4+
2024/25 41.70 - 60.4% 19.6%
2023/24 43.40 -0.22
likely between -0.40 and -0.03
63.2% 26.4%
2022/23 42.80 -0.06
likely between -0.24 and 0.12
55.6% 23.7%

Progress 8 compares pupils here with pupils nationally who had similar results at the end of primary school; 0 is average. It is an estimate, and DfE publishes a range it is likely to fall within. Where that range spans zero, the school cannot be said to be above or below average.

Key stage 2 (end of primary)
Year Expected standard in reading, writing & maths Higher standard Average reading score Average maths score
2024/25 55.0% 2.0% 104.0 102.0
2023/24 52.0% 8.0% 102.0 103.0
2022/23 52.0% 0.0% 103.0 105.0

Teachers staying and leaving

These come from the School Workforce Census, which follows each teacher into the next year. The numbers count full-time jobs, so a teacher who works half the week counts as half. They are not a count of people.

Census yearTeachers (FTE) Still there a year later Moved to another state school Left state schools Left in total
2024/25 110.6 98.6 4.0 8.0 10.8%
2023/24 111.4 91.6 9.0 10.8 17.8%
2022/23 119.6 94.4 13.6 11.6 21.1%
2021/22 126.3 103.0 7.0 16.3 18.4%
2020/21 122.5 97.9 10.0 14.6 20.1%
2019/20 131.2 104.6 10.6 16.0 20.3%

This is turnover among teachers. It says nothing about the headteacher or the senior leadership team: DfE publishes leadership retention separately and we do not hold it by school.

Catchment area

Nobody publishes a catchment area map for this school that we can read. That does not mean an address is outside its area. It means we hold no map, so we cannot tell you either way.

Where it is

The 6 nearest all through schools we hold figures for, by straight-line distance from Dixons Allerton Academy.

Nearby and related

Where these figures come from

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