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Oastlers School

Special schoolAges 11–19AcademySixth form

Bradford, BD4 7RH · Bradford local authority

Bradford’s School Grade C better than 25% of towns in England

How full
179 pupils
124% of its 144 places
Free school meals
70%
70 in 100 pupils eligible · outlined square = England’s schools (25)
The gist

What stands out about Oastlers School

  • No letter for this school: the reason is below.
  • Over capacity: 179 pupils for 144 places
  • 70% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (more than England’s 25%)
  • Ofsted report card, February 2026: achievement exceptional, safeguarding met (shown, not graded)
  • Homes in its postcode sector (BD4 7) sold for a median £104,000; Bradford’s is £155,000

Results

DfE · GCSEs 2025/26, provisional · 34 pupils

Each bar is a group of England’s 3,224 graded secondary schools. The schools Oastlers beats are shaded green.

Attainment 8 12.1

Average grade across 8 GCSEs ×10 · higher than 0% of schools · Bradford avg 42.6

20304050607080England avg 47.3Oastlers 12.1

Grade 5+ in English and maths 0%

A strong pass · higher than 0% of schools · Bradford avg 40%

0%20%40%60%80%100%England avg 47.3%Oastlers 0%

Attainment 8, three years

The mark is England’s average that year

2023/24
14.4
2024/25
14.5
2025/26
12.1

Progress 8, 2023/24

−1 behind0 = national+1 ahead

-1.00: below average. How pupils did at GCSE against pupils nationally with the same results at 11. Not published since 2023/24 (no Key Stage 2 tests in 2020 and 2021).

Disadvantaged pupils, 2025/26

Attainment 8 for the 26 pupils DfE counts as disadvantaged (free school meals in the last 6 years, or looked after) and the rest, beside England’s schools

Disadvantaged
9.5England 38.6
Not disadvantaged
20.6England 50.6
Grade 4 or above in English and maths12%
England’s schools 66% · Bradford 59% · a standard pass

England’s figures are of its graded mainstream state schools, each school counted once; grammar schools are included, which is why the right-hand tail is long. Small cohorts are suppressed.

Who goes here

DfE school census, January 2025

164 pupils. SEN support is extra help in school for a special educational need; an EHC plan is the council’s legal plan for pupils who need more.

SEN support
0%England 15.3%
EHC plan
100%England 3.6%
English as an additional language
2.4%England 18.8%
Free school meals in the last 6 years
70.6%England 26.2%

Girls and boys

Girls 13%Boys 87%
Its letter

No letter for Oastlers School

Special schools aren’t given a letter: their pupils’ needs differ too much for results to compare with mainstream schools.

Letters go to England’s open mainstream state schools with published Key Stage 2 or GCSE results (grammar schools included), each against the schools of its own phase.

Ofsted

Ofsted inspections

Shown, not graded: Ofsted is never part of a letter or the School Grade.

Report card, inspection starting February 2026.

SafeguardingMet
AchievementExceptional
Curriculum and teachingExceptional
InclusionExceptional
Attendance and behaviourExceptional
Personal development and well-beingExceptional
Leadership and governanceExceptional
Sixth formExceptional

Before the report card: Graded inspection: Outstanding, January 2023. Ungraded inspection: School remains Good (Improving), December 2019.

The full reports on Ofsted ↗

Living nearby

Living near Oastlers School

For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.

Home prices in BD4 7, the school’s postcode sector

Bradford property prices →
£104,000
median sale, 176 sales in 36 months · Bradford £155,000

Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025

£50K£100K£150K£200K2010201520202025BD4 7Bradford
BD4 7Bradford

By type, the 36 months to August 2026

Detached
£130K
Semi-detached
£150K
Terraced
£91K
BD4 7Bradford

Homes in BD4 7 sell for well under Bradford’s typical price. HM Land Registry Price Paid, standard sales. Catchments aren’t published, so the postcode sector stands in for “around the school”.

Schools within 1.6 miles

32 state schools
0.5 mi1 mi1.5 miNB−BC+A−B+DB+A−C+C−A+B+C−B+C−AC+C+B+C−C+B−C−C−AB−BD−CD−D−C−Oastlers School
ABCDNo letterPrimarySecondary / all-through

Bradford, BD4 7RH

Oastlers School: common questions

What is Oastlers School’s Ofsted rating?

Its latest inspection (February 2026) gave a report card: achievement exceptional, safeguarding met. Ofsted stopped giving one-word overall grades in September 2024.

How much do houses cost near Oastlers School?

Homes in its postcode sector, BD4 7, sold for a median £104,000 over the 36 months to August 2026 (176 sales).

Sources: DfE Get Information about Schools (16 October 2026), Key Stage 2 performance tables (2023–2025, three-year average) and Key Stage 4 (2025/26, provisional); Ofsted state-funded school inspections as at 30 September 2026. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Also: DfE Key Stage 4 performance, schools data (2023/24 and 2024/25 final, 2025/26 provisional) and Key Stage 2 performance tables 2024/25 by subject; DfE school census, January 2025; DfE school-level applications and offers, September 2019 to 2026 entry; HM Land Registry Price Paid by postcode sector, 2010 to August 2026.

A school’s letter is our own summary of its published results against England’s schools of the same phase; Bradford’s School Grade is a separate grade, built from the results of the schools in and around the town against other towns. Map: © OpenStreetMap contributors.

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