Dixons Kings Academy

Free schools·Secondary school Bradford·BD7 2AN
Composite score
65.9
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#631
National rank
#43
In Yorkshire and The Humber
#4
In Bradford
Top 20%
Nationally

Performance (KS4 GCSE)

Attainment 8 score
52.7
National avg ≈ 46
Progress 8 score
—
% achieving 9–5 in English & Maths
54%
% achieving 9–4 in English & Maths
72%
% EBacc grade 5+
32%
EBacc average points score
4.84

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
33%
344 first choices, 151 places
First choices per place
2.28
more first choices than places
Applications naming the school
1,181
any preference, for 151 places
First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.09
00.511.522.53
1 per place
1.8520221.9320232.2920242.3720252.282026

Red dashed line = one first choice per place. How to read this

We do not have a checked cut-off distance for Dixons Kings Academy yet. Bradford does publish allocation figures and we are working through them council by council — we only show a distance once we have found it in the council’s own document.

Application figures: DfE, school level applications and offers (2026 intake).

School profile

Age range
11–16
Pupils on roll
832
Gender
Mixed
Admissions
Non-Selective

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
30.5%
Typical secondary: 27.5%
% EAL
26.8%
Typical secondary: 12.0%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
10.3%
Typical secondary: 13.7%
% with an EHC plan
2.5%
Typical secondary: 2.9%

Attendance

Overall absence
7.5%
Typical secondary: 8.9%
Persistently absent
22.5%
Typical secondary: 25.7%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
18.5
Typical secondary: 16.7
Spend per pupil
£7,749
Typical secondary: £7,815

“Typical” = the median secondary school in England. What this means

What pupils do next

The share of this school's Year 11 leavers in education, training or employment for at least two terms afterwards.

In education, training or work
92%
167 pupils tracked
Stayed in education
89%
Apprenticeship
2%
Employment
1%

DfE, KS4 destination measures.

Nearby secondary schools

Location

Dixons Kings Academy at a glance

Located in Bradford, Dixons Kings Academy is a secondary school, classified by the DfE as a free school. The school educates roughly 832 pupils aged 11 to 16. The school's average Attainment 8 score in the latest GCSE results was 52.7 — above the national average (national average: 46). Its Attainment 8 score has fallen by 0.7 points compared with the previous year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it among the top 20% of secondary schools in England.

54% of pupils achieved a grade 5 or above in both English and maths, above the national average of about 45%. 72% achieved a standard pass (grade 4+) in English and maths. Dixons Kings Academy is oversubscribed: about 3 in 10 of the families who made it their first choice were offered a Year 7 place for September 2026, with 344 first choices for 151 places. After Year 11, 92% of its leavers went on to education, an apprenticeship or work that they stayed in for at least two terms. Overall pupil absence was 7.5%. There are about 18.5 pupils per teacher. Dixons Kings Academy does not currently have a recent graded Ofsted judgement on record (often the case for newer or recently converted schools), so it is worth asking when its next inspection is expected. This overview is generated automatically from the latest published DfE performance tables and Ofsted data; figures are rounded, and you can check the originals via the official links above.

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