Wycliffe CofE Primary School
General Information
- Address: Saltaire Road, Shipley, BD18 3HZ – View on map
- Phone: 01274584779
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mr Gavin Hamilton
- Age range: 4-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 22 families put it first for 27 places – 8 for every 10 places. Every one of them was offered a place. No places went to families living outside the council area. Children putting it first, for every 10 places: 2023 10 · 2024 7 · 2025 10 · 2026 8
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Church of England
- Nursery provision: No
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 73
- % eligible for free school meals: 23.0%
- Pupil mix: 6 in 10 (more mixed than the Bradford average)
- English as an additional language: 8% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 26.1% a year (Bradford 16%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 75% moved to another school, 25% left state schools altogether (retirement, other careers, independent schools, abroad)
- Data years: 2022/23 to 2024/25 (average of 3 years, DfE school workforce census)
Teachers who moved school or left state schools in the year after each November, as a share of all the school's teachers. Some turnover is healthy – retirements, promotions, moving house.
Behaviour
Awaiting Data
Across Bradford: suspensions by reason
- Suspensions for sexual misconduct: 17 (0.3 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Permanent exclusions for sexual misconduct: 0
- Suspensions for bullying: 7 (0.1 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Suspensions for abuse against sexual orientation or gender identity: 3 (0.1 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.0)
- Data year: 2024/25 (DfE suspensions and exclusions statistics)
These are figures for all state primary schools in Bradford, not this school's own – the government doesn't publish them school by school. A suspension can have up to three reasons. Most sexual harassment between pupils never leads to a suspension, so these figures show only part of the picture.
Attendance
- Overall absence: 4.7%
- Persistently absent pupils: 8.6%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 13.2%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 3.1%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Speech, language and communications needs: 27 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 5 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 5 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 4 pupils
- Hearing impairment: 1 pupil
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Speech, language and communications needs: 4 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 3 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 3 pupils
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
Good 2023 report
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 49% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 4% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 11 percentage points below the Bradford average (60%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: Below (3-year average 52% against an expected 63%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 52%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 67% · Writing 64% · Maths 58% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 60%
- Average test scores: reading 104, maths 103
- Based on: 45 Year 6 pupils, 2024/25
View the School Context Comparator – how this school's SATs results compare with schools teaching similar pupils.
SATs results over time
Year 6 SATs: joint 126th of 158 junior and primary schools in the area
- =120Whetley Academy50%
- =126The Academy At St. James49%
- =126Wycliffe CofE Primary School49%
- =128Bradford Academy48%
- =128Green Lane Primary School48%
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121st of 127 primary schools in Bradford for Ofsted rating
- #119Worth Valley Primary SchoolGood
- #120Worthinghead Primary SchoolGood
- #121Wycliffe CofE Primary SchoolGood
- #122Eastburn Primary SchoolRequires improvement
- #123Meadow Bank Community SchoolRequires improvement
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £6,075 (2024-25)
135th of 156 primary schools in Bradford for spending per pupil
- #133Margaret McMillan Primary School£6,101
- #134Thornbury Primary Leadership Academy£6,078
- #135Wycliffe CofE Primary School£6,075
- #136Heaton St Barnabas' CofE Aided Primary School£6,061
- #137Menston Primary School£6,056
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