St Anthony's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy

Academy converter·Primary school Bradford·BD14 6HW
Composite score
54.3
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#5,691
National rank
#567
In Yorkshire and The Humber
#50
In Bradford
Top 39%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
71%
% achieving higher RWM
7%
Reading average scaled score
107.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
107.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
93%
30 first choices, 30 places
First choices per place
1.00
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
66
any preference, for 30 places
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.03
00.511.5
1 per place
1.2720220.9720231.0020240.9720251.002026

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

We do not have a checked cut-off distance for St Anthony's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary 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
3–11
Pupils on roll
226
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
Roman Catholic

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
16.6%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
21.7%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
8.4%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
1.8%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
4.4%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
10.2%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
20.4
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£5,663
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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Location

St Anthony's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy at a glance

Located in Bradford, St Anthony's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a converter academy with a Roman Catholic religious character. The school educates roughly 226 pupils aged 3 to 11. 71% of its pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of Key Stage 2, above the national average (national figure: 61%). The proportion reaching the expected standard has fallen by 11.0 percentage points compared with the previous year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it in the top 39% of primary schools nationally.

Pupils achieved an average scaled score of 107 in reading and 107 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 7% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). 93% of the families who made St Anthony's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy their first choice were offered a Reception place for September 2026, even though the school made at least as many offers as it had first choices - the rest withdrew, moved or fell outside a priority group. Overall pupil absence was 4.4%. There are about 20.4 pupils per teacher. St Anthony's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary 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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