Beckfoot Thornton

Beckfoot Thornton
Established	2016
Type	Academy
Trust	Beckfoot Trust
Headteacher	Jeremy Richardson - Interim
Location	Leaventhorpe Lane Thornton Bradford West Yorkshire BD13 3BH England 53°47′29″N 1°49′18″W / 53.7913°N 1.8217°W / 53.7913; -1.8217Coordinates: 53°47′29″N 1°49′18″W / 53.7913°N 1.8217°W / 53.7913; -1.8217
Local authority	Bradford
DfE number	380/4040
DfE URN	143114 Tables
Ofsted	Reports Pre-academy reports
Students	1,515 as of October 2015
Gender	Mixed
Ages	11–18
Website	School website

Beckfoot Thornton^[1] (Thornton Grammar School until 2016)^[2] is a mixed secondary school and sixth form located in Thornton, West Yorkshire, England.^[3]

It is an Academy administered by Beckfoot Trust since 2016 and formerly a comprehensive foundation school administered by Bradford City Council and the Thornton Grammar and Queensbury School Learning Trust. It offers GCSEs and BTECs as programmes of study for pupils, while students in the sixth form have the option to study from a range of A-levels and further BTECs.^[4]

Notable former pupils

↑ "EduBase - Beckfoot Thornton". Department for Education. Retrieved 10 January 2017.
↑ "EduBase - Thornton Grammar School". Department for Education. Retrieved 10 January 2017.
↑ "Thornton Grammar School". tgsonline.co.uk. Retrieved 16 October 2015.
↑ "Sixth Form". tgsonline.co.uk. Retrieved 16 October 2015.
↑ "Eric Bedford". Telegraph. 8 August 2001. Retrieved 22 January 2017.

Schools in the City of Bradford
Primary schools	Appleton Academy Bradford Academy Bradford Girls' Grammar School
Secondary schools	Appleton Academy Beckfoot School Beckfoot Thornton Beckfoot Upper Heaton Belle Vue Girls' School Bingley Grammar School Bradford Academy Bradford Girls' Grammar School Buttershaw Business & Enterprise College Carlton Bolling College Dixons Allerton Academy Dixons City Academy Dixons Kings Academy Feversham College Grange Technology College Hanson Academy Holy Family Catholic School Ilkley Grammar School Immanuel College Laisterdyke Leadership Academy Oakbank School Oasis Academy Lister Park Parkside School Queensbury School St Bede's & St Joseph's Catholic College Samuel Lister Academy Titus Salt School Tong High School University Academy Keighley
Independent schools	Bradford Christian School Bradford Grammar School
Further education	Bradford College Shipley College
Defunct schools	St Bede's Grammar School St Joseph's Catholic College

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