Parkside School

Term dates

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Admissions

Places for Year 7 are applied for through your home council, not the school.

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How places are given: there's no entrance test. When there are more applicants than places, places usually go by criteria such as siblings, distance or catchment area. Check the council's or school's admissions policy for the exact rules.

For the sixth form, apply to the school directly.

How many families applied: Year 7

For September 2026, 132 families put this school as their first choice, and 199 places were offered. 132 of the families who put it first got a place (100%).

Offers made on national offer day, from the Department for Education. Waiting lists and appeals can change things later. The hardest schools to get into.

Ofsted inspection

Report card, 7 July 2026. Ofsted now grades each area separately, from exceptional to urgent improvement, with no single overall grade.

Special measures

Inclusion

Needs attention

Curriculum and teaching

Needs attention

Achievement

Urgent improvement

Attendance and behaviour

Urgent improvement

Personal development and wellbeing

Needs attention

Leadership and governance

Urgent improvement

Safeguarding standards: met.

Previous inspection, 20 June 2023. Overall: Inadequate It was inspected as Parkside School, before the school changed (for example, became an academy).

Read the Ofsted reports

From Ofsted's published inspection data (Open Government Licence). Report cards and older grades use different scales, so they can't be compared directly.

About and location

Type

Academy

Phase

Secondary

Ages

11–18

Pupils

1061 (capacity 1374)

Gender

Mixed

Academy trust

WELLSPRING ACADEMY TRUST

Phone

01535272752

Address

Parkside Terrace, Cullingworth, Bradford, BD13 5AD

Website

parksideschool.net

Official school record, including Ofsted reports