Welcome to Grange Technology College
Grange is a Community School in South Bradford. It is currently heavily over-subscribed and serves over 1800 students (with over 300 in the sixth form) from a wide variety of ethnic backgrounds. The majority of students are of South Asian heritage.
The school is very successful and held in high regard both locally and nationally. Through a relentless concentration on improving teaching quality, assessment for learning and outstanding student support Grange has become one of the highest performing schools in Bradford and the country.
In Nov 2007 Ofsted described Grange as an outstanding school. We have been a specialist Technology College since 2001, have ‘high performing specialist school’ status and have a second specialist role, as a Training School. The school's Ofsted report is available at www.ofsted.gov.uk or on the school's website at www.grangetc.org.uk.
Ofsted said – ‘Grange is an outstanding school’
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Achievement is outstanding
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Teaching and learning are outstanding
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Care guidance and support are outstanding
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Provision in the sixth-form is outstanding
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Leadership and management are outstanding
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Students enjoy being at school, they work well together and treat each other with respect
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There is a continuous drive for improvement and an outstanding capacity to improve further
Over 50% of Grange students now attain 5 or more passes in GCSE at grades A* to C. When the progress of students in the school is measured using ‘value-added’ analysis Grange regularly features in the top 2% of schools nationally and our Sixth Form students attain strong results.
And yet the school continues to set itself high expectations. We expect future students to do even better than their predecessors. We do this through a continuous focus on self evaluation (what do we need to do to improve?) and planning for improvement. Grange is an outstanding school – but we aspire to be even better. Our students need a solid grounding in the skills they need to be successful in the 21st century – those of interdependence, the ability to contribute positively to the wider community, resourcefulness and enterprise. The school seeks to instil these qualities in all its students.
