Feversham Girls' Secondary Academy

About Feversham Girls' Secondary Academy

Feversham Girls’ Secondary Academy in Bradford holds an Ofsted Outstanding rating from its most recent inspection in 2022, with every graded category — quality of education, behaviour and attitudes, personal development, leadership and management, and sixth-form provision — all judged Outstanding. The school’s most telling exam metric is its Progress 8 score of 0.68, which places it well above average nationally. That score means pupils here achieve nearly three-quarters of a grade more per subject across eight GCSEs than students with similar starting points nationally. In Bradford, where the local authority average Progress 8 is -0.19, Feversham’s result is particularly striking: it ranks second out of 34 secondary schools in the area, and in the top 5% of schools across Yorkshire and the Humber. Nationally, it sits in the top 10% of all schools. The school also achieves a strong Attainment 8 score of 52.4, and 68.3% of pupils secure a grade 4 or above in both English and maths.

At GCSE, 51.7% of students achieve the English Baccalaureate at grade 4 or above, and an impressive 94.2% enter the EBacc suite of subjects. The school’s EBacc average point score is 4.88. Breaking down Progress 8 further, pupils make strong gains in English (0.72) and open subjects (0.98), though maths progress is close to average at 0.01. In the sixth form, 44 students take A-levels, achieving an average of 33.65 points per entry, equivalent to a C+ grade. The best three A-levels average out at a B-, and 25% of entries are graded AAB or higher. The sixth-form value-added score is -0.2, which is in the average banding — meaning students leave with broadly the grades their prior attainment would predict. The school is oversubscribed: for 2025/26 entry, there were 518 applications for 128 places, with 240 first-preference applications and 120 first-preference offers, giving an oversubscription ratio of just over 4:1.

Feversham is a Muslim faith school for girls aged 11 to 18, with 811 pupils on roll against a capacity of 720. It serves a community where 31.3% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, well above the national average. Facilities include a sixth-form centre, library, sports hall, music rooms, ICT suite, science labs, theatre, gymnasium, tennis courts, playing fields, and a chapel. The school offers a wide range of sports — football, tennis, badminton, rugby, basketball, cricket, athletics — and clubs including Debate, Duke of Edinburgh, Chess, Science Club, Newspaper, Young Enterprise, and Gardening. SEND provision covers specific learning difficulties like dyslexia, moderate learning difficulty, social, emotional and mental health needs, speech and language communication needs, hearing impairment, physical disability, and autistic spectrum disorder. This is a high-attaining, academically ambitious school that suits families who value strong GCSE outcomes and a structured, faith-based environment, though oversubscription means early application is essential.

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