Education and Learning

Raising Achievement is all about looking at ways to accelerate the achievement of outcomes and ambitions set out in the district’s Children and Young People’s Plan.

Our ambitions for the Bradford district continue to be aspirational as we seek to secure a further step change in:

• Students’ attainment and achievement.
• The wellbeing of young people.
• Skill, knowhow and capacity.
• Engagement of young people.
• Collaboration, interdependence, responsibility and self determination.

Head Teachers, senior leaders in schools, school based staff, governors, Education Service and Local Authority officers have all taken part in this process and the Bradford District Raising Achievement Strategy has been endorsed by Bradford Children's Trust.

Moving Forward

• Bradford district is now in the top 30% of most improved
  local authorities in England at Key Stages 2 and 4.
• Has a rate of improvement in children’s attainment in English and mathematics at the age of 11 which is more than double the national average (in science our improvement is nine times the national average!).
• Performance between 2004 – 2009, at the end of the secondary phase, has improved 29% more rapidly than the national average.