Cavendish Primary School

Academy converter·Primary school Bradford·BD2 2DU
Composite score
36.0
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#12,157
National rank
#1263
In Yorkshire and The Humber
#120
In Bradford
Top 82%
Nationally

Performance (KS2 SATs)

% meeting expected RWM
50%
% achieving higher RWM
3%
Reading average scaled score
102.0
National avg ≈ 105
Maths average scaled score
101.0
National avg ≈ 104
Reading progress
—
Maths progress
—

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
100%
45 first choices, 58 places
First choices per place
0.78
fewer first choices than places
Applications naming the school
114
any preference, for 58 places
First preferences per place, last five years▼ 0.12
00.511.5
1 per place
n/a2022n/a20230.8720240.9020250.782026

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

Every child who put Cavendish Primary School first was offered a place in 2026, so no distance cut-off applied: living further away did not cost a place that year.

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

School profile

Age range
3–11
Pupils on roll
447
Gender
Mixed
Religious character
None

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
50.6%
Typical primary: 21.5%
% EAL
13.0%
Typical primary: 9.6%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
16.1%
Typical primary: 14.3%
% with an EHC plan
5.8%
Typical primary: 3.0%

Attendance

Overall absence
7.5%
Typical primary: 5.3%
Persistently absent
20.2%
Typical primary: 13.3%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
21.0
Typical primary: 20.7
Spend per pupil
£7,286
Typical primary: £6,960

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

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Location

Cavendish Primary School at a glance

Located in Bradford, Cavendish Primary School is a primary school, classified by the DfE as a converter academy. The school educates roughly 447 pupils aged 3 to 11. 50% of its pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths at the end of Key Stage 2, below the national average (national figure: 61%). The proportion reaching the expected standard has fallen by 16.0 percentage points compared with the previous year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it in the lower half of primary schools nationally.

Pupils achieved an average scaled score of 102 in reading and 101 in maths (national averages are about 105 and 104). 3% reached the higher standard across all three subjects (around 8% do so nationally). Getting a place is straightforward: for the September 2026 intake every family who made Cavendish Primary School their first choice was offered one of its 58 Reception places. Overall pupil absence was 7.5%. There are about 21.0 pupils per teacher. The school serves a community with above-average levels of disadvantage: about 51% of pupils have been eligible for free school meals in the last six years, compared with roughly 24% nationally — useful context when reading the results above. Cavendish Primary School 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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