Beckfoot Thornton Explained

Beckfoot Thornton
Motto:	Enjoy Learn Succeed
Established:	2016
Head Label:	Headteacher
Head:	Sally Trusselle ^[1]
Address:	Leaventhorpe Lane
City:	Bradford
District:	Thornton and Allerton
Postcode:	BD13 3BH
County:	West Yorkshire
Country:	England
Coordinates:	53.7913°N -1.8217°W
Dfeno:	380/4040
Urn:	143114
Ofsted:	yes
Enrolment:	1,515
Lower Age:	11
Upper Age:	18
Website:	http://www.beckfootthornton.org/

Beckfoot Thornton^[2] (Thornton Grammar School until 2016)^[3] is a mixed secondary school and sixth form located in Thornton, West Yorkshire, England.^[4]

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.^[5]

Notable former pupils

Web site: Our Team. 27 October 2022.
Web site: EduBase – Beckfoot Thornton. Department for Education. 10 January 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170113014810/http://www.education.gov.uk/edubase/establishment/summary.xhtml?urn=143114. 13 January 2017. dead.
Web site: EduBase – Thornton Grammar School. Department for Education. 10 January 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170113014929/http://www.education.gov.uk/edubase/establishment/summary.xhtml?urn=107442. 13 January 2017. dead.
Web site: Thornton Grammar School. tgsonline.co.uk. 16 October 2015.
Web site: Sixth Form. tgsonline.co.uk. 16 October 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20151222111459/http://www.tgsonline.co.uk/page/?title=Sixth+Form&pid=7. 22 December 2015. dead.
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