Cavendish Primary School
Bradford, BD2 2DU · Bradford local authority
Bradford’s School Grade C better than 25% of towns in England
What stands out about Cavendish Primary School
- Its own letter, B−: Key Stage 2 results better than 48% of England’s primary schools
- Over capacity: 456 pupils for 420 places
- 51% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (more than England’s 25%)
- Ofsted report card, July 2026: achievement expected standard, safeguarding met (shown, not graded)
- Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026 (45 of 45)
- Homes in its postcode sector (BD2 2) sold for a median £163,750; Bradford’s is £155,000
Results
DfE · Key Stage 2Reading, writing and maths 62%
Met the expected standard, DfE’s 3-year average 2023–2025 · higher than 48% of England’s 14,979 graded primaries · Bradford avg 60%
Each subject, 2025
Met the expected standard; the mark is England’s schools · average scaled score: reading 102, maths 101 (100 = the expected standard)
Disadvantaged pupils, 2025
Met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths: the 32 disadvantaged pupils and the rest, beside England’s schools
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.
How hard is it to get a place at Cavendish Primary School?
Every family who put it first got a place for September 2026.
Years when some first choices missed out: 2020 (1), 2022 (7). The council runs the coordinated admissions; each school’s rules (siblings, distance, faith) decide who gets in. DfE doesn’t publish the furthest distance offered, so check the council’s admissions booklet for that. Exceed Academies Trust sets the admissions rules. Apply through Bradford council’s coordinated admissions.
Outline = places offered · green = families who put it first · striped = more first choices than places · the 10 most in demand
100% got their first choice
Bradford and Bradford, side by side
2023–2025All 157 graded primaries in Bradford. Schools with more pupils on free school meals usually score lower, so a school above the crowd for its free school meals is doing better than its intake predicts. Bradford’s schools are coloured by their letter.
Show as a table
| School | Letter | Free school meals | KS2 expected standard |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harden Primary School | A+ | 11% | 87% |
| All Saints' CofE Primary School | A+ | 3% | 86% |
| Lift Feversham | A+ | 33% | 84% |
| Baildon Church of England Primary School | A+ | 9% | 84% |
| Burley and Woodhead CofE Primary School | A+ | 3% | 83% |
| Thackley Primary School | A | 10% | 82% |
| Barkerend Primary Leadership Academy | A | 41% | 82% |
| East Morton CofE Primary School | A | 10% | 81% |
| Marshfield Primary | A | 27% | 80% |
| St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy | A | 10% | 79% |
| Thornbury Primary Leadership Academy | A | 32% | 78% |
| St Anthony's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy | A | 16% | 78% |
| Brackenhill Primary School | A | 33% | 77% |
| St Walburga's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy | A | 10% | 77% |
| Copthorne Primary School | A | 32% | 77% |
| Hollingwood Academy | A | 30% | 76% |
| St Anthony's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy | A | 41% | 76% |
| Low Ash Primary School | A− | 19% | 75% |
| Cottingley Village Primary School | A− | 20% | 75% |
| Burley Oaks Primary School | A− | 7% | 75% |
| Eastburn Primary School | A− | 13% | 74% |
| Merlin Top Primary Academy | A− | 55% | 73% |
| Horton Park Primary School | A− | 52% | 73% |
| Beckfoot Heaton Primary | A− | 38% | 72% |
| Crossflatts Primary School | A− | 13% | 71% |
| Beckfoot Priestthorpe Primary School & Nursery | A− | 24% | 71% |
| Holybrook Primary School | A− | 62% | 71% |
| St Cuthbert and the First Martyrs' Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy | A− | 20% | 71% |
| Eldwick Primary School | B+ | 4% | 70% |
| Dixons Marchbank Primary | B+ | 26% | 70% |
| St Anne's Catholic Primary School | B+ | 24% | 70% |
| Blakehill Primary School | B+ | 18% | 69% |
| Addingham Primary School | B+ | 4% | 69% |
| Newhall Park Primary School | B+ | 41% | 69% |
| St John's CofE Primary School | B+ | 33% | 69% |
| Menston Primary School | B+ | 4% | 69% |
| Farfield Primary and Nursery School | B+ | 53% | 68% |
| Saltaire Primary School | B+ | 17% | 68% |
| Rainbow Primary Leadership Academy | B+ | 34% | 68% |
| Cullingworth Village Primary School | B+ | 14% | 68% |
| Bankfoot Primary School | B | 24% | 67% |
| St Joseph's Catholic Primary School | B | 31% | 67% |
| Worth Valley Primary School | B | 50% | 67% |
| Stocks Lane Primary School | B | 15% | 66% |
| Killinghall Primary School | B | 28% | 66% |
| The Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School | B | 9% | 66% |
| St Philip's CofE Primary School | B | 42% | 66% |
| St Francis Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy | B | 12% | 66% |
| Bowling Park Primary School | B | 46% | 66% |
| Sandal Primary School | B | 9% | 65% |
| Haworth Primary School | B | 21% | 65% |
| Thorpe Primary | B | 48% | 65% |
| Miriam Lord Primary School | B | 33% | 65% |
| Silsden Primary School | B− | 16% | 64% |
| Steeton Primary School | B− | 28% | 64% |
| Keelham Primary School | B− | 11% | 64% |
| Ashlands Primary School | B− | 8% | 64% |
| Low Moor CofE Primary School | B− | 18% | 63% |
| Greengates Primary Academy | B− | 32% | 63% |
| Swain House Primary School | B− | 38% | 62% |
| Ingrow Primary School | B− | 45% | 62% |
| Lees Primary School | B− | 11% | 62% |
| Cavendish Primary School | B− | 51% | 62% |
| Newby Primary School | B− | 36% | 61% |
| Hoyle Court Primary School | B− | 20% | 61% |
| Foxhill Primary School | B− | 11% | 61% |
| All Saints CofE Primary School | B− | 49% | 61% |
| Sandy Lane Primary School | C+ | 31% | 60% |
| Idle CofE Primary School | C+ | 7% | 60% |
| Heaton St Barnabas' CofE Aided Primary School | C+ | 17% | 60% |
| St Stephen's CofE Primary School | C+ | 47% | 60% |
| Myrtle Park Primary | C+ | 12% | 60% |
| Oxenhope CofE Primary School | C+ | 10% | 60% |
| Atlas Community Primary School | C+ | 34% | 60% |
| Lilycroft Primary School | C+ | 39% | 60% |
| St Matthew's Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy | C+ | 34% | 60% |
| Trinity All Saints CofE VA Primary School | C+ | 32% | 60% |
| Dixons Music Primary | C+ | 22% | 59% |
| High Crags Primary Leadership Academy | C+ | 46% | 59% |
| Lapage Primary School and Nursery | C+ | 40% | 59% |
| Wilsden Primary School | C+ | 13% | 59% |
| Byron Primary School | C+ | 44% | 59% |
| Appleton Academy | C+ | 51% | 59% |
| St. Clare's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy | C+ | 43% | 59% |
| Lidget Green Academy | C+ | 42% | 59% |
| Poplars Farm Primary School | C+ | 28% | 58% |
| Stanbury Village School | C+ | 6% | 58% |
| Shibden Head Primary Academy | C+ | 14% | 58% |
| St Winefride's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy | C+ | 22% | 58% |
| Horton Grange Primary School | C+ | 37% | 58% |
| Farnham Academy | C+ | 31% | 58% |
| Lower Fields Primary Academy | C+ | 45% | 58% |
| Wellington Primary School | C | 29% | 57% |
| Wibsey Primary School | C | 32% | 57% |
| Grove House Academy | C | 34% | 57% |
| St John the Evangelist Catholic Primary School | C | 18% | 56% |
| Denholme Primary School | C | 35% | 56% |
| Victoria Primary School | C | 39% | 56% |
| Eastwood Community School | C | 31% | 56% |
| Home Farm Primary School | C | 31% | 55% |
| Oakworth Primary School | C | 12% | 55% |
| Westbourne Primary School | C | 37% | 55% |
| Margaret McMillan Primary School | C | 36% | 55% |
| Holycroft Primary School | C | 38% | 54% |
| Carlton Mills | C | 42% | 54% |
| Co-op Academy Penny Oaks | C | 39% | 54% |
| St Luke's CofE Primary School | C− | 30% | 53% |
| Dixons Allerton Academy | C− | 37% | 53% |
| Laycock Academy | C− | 49% | 53% |
| Frizinghall Primary School | C− | 31% | 52% |
| Ryecroft Primary Academy | C− | 64% | 52% |
| Dixons Manningham Academy | C− | 33% | 52% |
| Woodside Academy | C− | 48% | 52% |
| Clayton St John CofE Primary School | C− | 36% | 52% |
| Wycliffe CofE Primary School | C− | 23% | 52% |
| Shipley CofE Primary School | C− | 29% | 52% |
| Co-op Academy Princeville | C− | 41% | 52% |
| St Columba's Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy | C− | 45% | 52% |
| St Paul's CofE Primary School | C− | 31% | 51% |
| Beckfoot Allerton Primary School and Nursery | C− | 34% | 51% |
| Woodlands Church of England Primary Academy | C− | 23% | 51% |
| St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy | C− | 35% | 51% |
| Our Lady and St Brendan's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy | C− | 42% | 51% |
| Clayton Village Academy | C− | 18% | 51% |
| St Matthew's CofE Primary School and Nursery | C− | 33% | 51% |
| Girlington Primary School | C− | 43% | 49% |
| Bradford Academy | C− | 51% | 49% |
| Our Lady of Victories Catholic School | C− | 23% | 49% |
| Westminster Church of England Primary Academy | C− | 48% | 49% |
| Thornton Primary School | C− | 32% | 49% |
| Peel Park Primary School and Nursery | C− | 41% | 48% |
| Christ Church Church of England Academy | C− | 51% | 48% |
| Iqra Primary Academy | C− | 23% | 48% |
| Parkwood Primary School | C− | 44% | 48% |
| Co-op Academy Parkland | C− | 59% | 48% |
| Fagley Primary School | D | 38% | 47% |
| Long Lee Primary School | D | 31% | 47% |
| Riddlesden St Mary's CofE Primary School | D | 30% | 47% |
| Whetley Academy | D | 41% | 47% |
| Beckfoot Nessfield | D | 18% | 47% |
| St Oswald's Church of England Primary Academy | D | 55% | 46% |
| Southmere Primary Academy | D | 61% | 46% |
| The Academy At St. James | D | 48% | 45% |
| Reevy Hill Primary School | D | 53% | 44% |
| St William's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy | D | 33% | 44% |
| Green Lane Primary School | D | 40% | 43% |
| Worthinghead Primary School | D | 23% | 42% |
| Russell Hall Primary School | D | 30% | 42% |
| Hill Top CofE Primary School | D | 19% | 41% |
| Crossley Hall Academy | D | 36% | 40% |
| Oldfield Primary School | D | 11% | 39% |
| Keighley St Andrew's CofE Primary School and Nursery | D− | 36% | 38% |
| Shirley Manor Primary School | D− | 57% | 38% |
| Ley Top Primary School | D− | 48% | 37% |
| Baildon Glen Primary School | D− | 50% | 32% |
| Knowleswood Primary School | D− | 70% | 27% |
| Carrwood Primary School | D− | 64% | 26% |
Who goes here
DfE school census, January 2025447 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.
Girls and boys
Cavendish Primary School’s letter
Its own results against England’s schools, not the town’s School Grade.
How school letters are worked out
Each school’s measure is compared with every graded school in England of the same phase: for primaries, the share of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths (DfE’s three-year average); for secondaries, Attainment 8 and the share with grade 5 or above in English and maths, each turned into a z-score against England’s schools and averaged. The letter comes from the share of those schools it beats, in the same bands as every grade on the site. The same method gives U.S. schools their letters, against their own state.
Graded: England’s open mainstream state schools with published results (grammar schools included, which select by test). Not graded: special schools, alternative provision, nurseries, 16–19 colleges, UTCs and studio schools, Welsh schools. Ofsted plays no part.
Ofsted inspections
Shown, not graded: Ofsted is never part of a letter or the School Grade.
Report card, inspection starting July 2026.
Before the report card: Ungraded inspection: School remains Good, January 2020.
Living near Cavendish Primary School
For families thinking of moving: what homes cost around the school, and the other schools close by.
Home prices in BD2 2, the school’s postcode sector
Bradford property prices →Median sale price each year, 2010 to 2025
By type, the 36 months to August 2026
Homes in BD2 2 sell for a little over 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
28 state schoolsLocation
Directions ↗Bradford, BD2 2DU
Cavendish Primary School: common questions
Is Cavendish Primary School a good school?
By its published results, about average: its Key Stage 2 results are better than 48% of England’s primary schools (its letter is B−), with 62% of pupils meeting the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, against 62% for England’s schools. Ofsted: a report card in July 2026.
How hard is it to get into Cavendish Primary School?
For September 2026, 45 families put Cavendish Primary School first and all of them were offered a place; 58 places were offered in all.
What is Cavendish Primary School’s Ofsted rating?
Its latest inspection (July 2026) gave a report card: achievement expected standard, safeguarding met. Ofsted stopped giving one-word overall grades in September 2024.
How much do houses cost near Cavendish Primary School?
Homes in its postcode sector, BD2 2, sold for a median £163,750 over the 36 months to August 2026 (260 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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