Bradford Grammar School, Bradford | The Good Schools Guide

Bradford Grammar School
Keighley Road
Bradford
West Yorkshire
BD9 4JP
Head: Dr Simon Hinchliffe
T 01274 542492
F 01274 548129
E [email protected]
W www.bradfordgrammar.com
An independent school for boys and girls aged from 11 to 18.
Boarding: No
Local authority: Bradford
Pupils: 862; sixth formers: 249
Religion: Non-denominational
Fees: £12,669 pa
Open days: October, then Open Mornings through to April
Review: View The Good Schools Guide Review
ISI report: View the ISI report
Linked schools: Bradford Grammar Junior School (Clock House)

What The Good Schools Guide says..

Significant and continuous investment evident in the excellent facilities, thanks to generosity of a number of benefactors (including OB David Hockney, whose name graces the flexible performance area and whose gifted works are on display around the school). Really is sport for all here, on and off the timetable; pupils spoilt for choice with range on offer. Major focus on rugby though head would like ‘more juice and attention’ for other sports....

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What the school says...

Bradford Grammar School is a selective co-educational day school. While we retain the traditional grammar school ethos, we are also forward-thinking and seek to combine the best of the old and the new. Our aim is to achieve excellence in all we do, both in academic and extra-curricular activities.

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All-through school (for example 3-18 years). - An all-through school covers junior and senior education. It may start at 3 or 4, or later, and continue through to 16 or 18. Some all-through schools set exams at 11 or 13 that pupils must pass to move on.

Sports

Rowing

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Headmaster

Since January 2016, Dr Simon Hinchliffe BA MEd PhD (late 40s), previously deputy head, having joined the school in 2014. Geography degree from Durham, PhD from St Andrews in geography geoscience and international recognition for research into quaternary science led to a post as lecturer at the University of Wolverhampton. Masters in education leadership and management from the OU following a move to secondary education. Spent 14 years at Wolverhampton Grammar School, where he was latterly head of sixth form and head of outdoor education.

He places great significance on value added data, which shows cohorts of pupils are achieving one grade higher than expected per GCSE, across the range of subjects. Believes that Bradford Grammar is a ‘broad church’ (a much repeated term), and that it is ‘as far...

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Overall school performance (for comparison or review only)

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Who came from where

School	Year	Places	Scholarships	Description
Bradford Grammar Junior School (Clock House)	2017 to 2018			Majority to senior school; Majority to senior school
Moorfield School	2016 to 2018	3	1	Charter Award for Academic Excellence
Richmond House School	2017 to 2018	7	3	Charter Scholars (3)
The Froebelian School	2018	4	1
Westville House School	2017	4	1	Charter Scholar

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