Appleton Academy
Academy sponsor led · 1,207 pupils
82% stayed in education · Attainment 8 35.1
Free schools
Dixons Trinity Academy
- Pupils on roll
- 671of 670 places
- Free school meals
- 36.4%
- Year 11 cohort 2025
- 135
- Ofsted
- Inspected, 21 January 2025Read the Ofsted report
What the data says
Dixons Trinity Academy has no sixth form. Of the 120 pupils who finished Year 11 there in 2023, 27% moved to a sixth form college, 21% to a further education college and 1% started an apprenticeship.
Spanish is unusually popular at GCSE: 76% of the year group took it, against 19% of pupils across England.
GCSE results in 2025 were above the national picture: Attainment 8 of 51.4 against 46.1 across England and 40.8 in Bradford, with 50% of pupils getting grade 5 or above in both English and maths (England 45%).
Almost nobody goes straight into an apprenticeship or a job: 1% took an apprenticeship and none went into work, against 3% and 3% across England.
Where pupils went after Year 11
Destinations of the 2023 Year 11 leavers, measured the following year: the share in a sustained place for at least two terms. Compared with all state-funded schools in Bradford and England.
School sixth formSixth form collegeFurther education collegeOther educationApprenticeshipEmploymentNo sustained destination
| Measure | Dixons Trinity Academy | Bradford | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils in the cohort | 120 | 6,849 | 607,348 |
| Any sustained destination | 89% | 88% | 92% |
| Stayed in education | 88% | 84% | 86% |
| — school sixth form | 41% | 33% | 34% |
| — sixth form college | 27% | 11% | 13% |
| — further education college | 21% | 39% | 37% |
| — other education | 0% | 2% | 2% |
| Apprenticeship | 1% | 3% | 3% |
| Employment | 0% | 2% | 3% |
| No sustained destination | 8% | 7% | 6% |
| Destination unknown | 3% | 5% | 3% |
GCSE results 2025
| Measure | Dixons Trinity Academy | Bradford | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Attainment 8 (average points per pupil) | 51.4 | 40.8 | 46.1 |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 50% | 38% | 45% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 69% | 57% | 65% |
| Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects | 79% | 42% | 41% |
| EBacc average point score | 4.48 | 3.56 | 4.09 |
| Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort | 33% | 36% | 28% |
| Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils | 42.5 | 31.7 | 34.9 |
| Attainment 8 — other pupils | 55.7 | 45.9 | 50.4 |
| Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2) | — | — | — |
| English as an additional language | 17% | 34% | 19% |
Progress 8 is not available for 2025 and 2026: these cohorts had no Key Stage 2 tests in 2020 and 2021, so there is no baseline. Attainment 8 shows results without taking pupils’ starting points into account.
Subjects taken at GCSE
Entries in 2025 as a share of the Year 11 cohort, and the share of entries graded 7–9 and 4–9, compared with all entries in England.
| Subject | Entries | Share of cohort | England | Grades 7–9 | England | Grades 4–9 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language | 136 | 100% | 89% | 35% | 20% | 79% |
| English Literature | 135 | 100% | 86% | 42% | 21% | 84% |
| Mathematics | 134 | 99% | 88% | 18% | 22% | 72% |
| Religious Studies | 132 | 98% | 31% | 31% | 32% | 73% |
| Combined Science | 105 | 78% | 65% | 9% | 9% | 50% |
| Spanish | 103 | 76% | 19% | 10% | 27% | 61% |
| Geography | 72 | 53% | 41% | 21% | 25% | 53% |
| History | 58 | 43% | 41% | 17% | 26% | 62% |
| Biology | 30 | 22% | 23% | 40% | 45% | 100% |
| Chemistry | 30 | 22% | 23% | 47% | 47% | 100% |
| Physics | 30 | 22% | 23% | 13% | 46% | 100% |
| Physical Education | 21 | 16% | 11% | 10% | 24% | 71% |
| Urdu | 2 | 1% | 1% | — | 42% | — |
| French | 1 | 1% | 18% | — | 29% | — |
| Arabic | 1 | 1% | 1% | — | 47% | — |
| Italian | 1 | 1% | 0% | — | 53% | — |
| Punjabi | 1 | 1% | 0% | — | 48% | — |
| Statistics | 1 | 1% | 5% | — | 20% | — |
Technical awards and other Key Stage 4 qualifications
| Subject | Entries | Share of cohort | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Art and Design | 75 | — | — |
| Computer Appreciation / Introduction | 52 | — | — |
| Sports Studies | 34 | — | — |
| Multimedia | 18 | — | — |
| Music performance: Group | 13 | — | — |
| Sports Studies | 1 | — | — |
| Engineering Studies | 1 | — | — |
Where Dixons Trinity Academy is
Other secondary schools in Bradford are shown for comparison; darker blue means more Year 11 leavers stayed in education. The last distance at which this school offered places is not yet on file — it comes from Bradford’s allocation statistics.
Other secondary schools in Bradford
Beckfoot Oakbank
Academy sponsor led · sixth form · 1,394 pupils
82% stayed in education · Attainment 8 35.3
Beckfoot School
Academy converter · sixth form · 1,592 pupils
89% stayed in education · Attainment 8 53.0
Beckfoot Thornton
Academy sponsor led · 1,243 pupils
83% stayed in education · Attainment 8 40.2
Beckfoot Upper Heaton
Academy sponsor led · 679 pupils
83% stayed in education · Attainment 8 37.3
Belle Vue Girls' Academy
Academy converter · sixth form · 910 pupils
93% stayed in education · Attainment 8 43.2
Sources: Department for Education school and college performance tables 2024/2025 (Key Stage 4 and 16–18 results, subject entries, destination measures for 2023 leavers); Get Information About Schools register as at 19 September 2026; Ofsted management information as at 31 August 2026. Small numbers are suppressed by DfE and shown as “—”. How to read these figures.