EEdunet Portal

School and MSP cost review coverage: Bradford (BD)

This hub indexes every Edunet Portal review page for the BD postcode area. Bradford's education estate covers 272 open state-funded schools — 186 primary and 39 secondary — with around 113,000 pupils on roll, administered by Bradford, Kirklees, Leeds, North Yorkshire. 163 of those schools (60%) sit inside multi-academy trusts, which shapes how contracts for connectivity, energy, ICT and support are negotiated: trust members often buy centrally, while the remaining schools procure independently through their own business managers.

School review pages below compare a selected school's recorded spend against 2024-25 Department for Education benchmark records for comparable schools. MSP pages give suppliers serving Bradford education customers benchmark tools for quoting, procurement context and sales capacity. Every figure shown on a review page is indicative and clearly caveated — nothing is presented as a confirmed saving.

Review pages for the BD area

What the school data shows for BD

The public GIAS-derived feed behind these pages puts the average Bradford school at 415 pupils, with secondary settings averaging 1054 on roll — the profiles that drive the largest connectivity, energy and premises spend. 109 schools in the area procure independently, while 163 buy through one of 34 multi-academy trusts operating locally, the largest being BRADFORD DIOCESAN ACADEMIES TRUST (20 schools), BLESSED CHRISTOPHER WHARTON CATHOLIC ACADEMY TRUST (19 schools), EXCEED ACADEMIES TRUST (14 schools).

For a school business manager in Bradford, that mix determines which benchmark peer group applies: reviews on this site always compare a school against similar-phase, similar-size settings rather than an area average. For an MSP, the same numbers describe the shape of the addressable market — how many buying conversations exist in BD, and how many route through a trust head office instead of a school reception. Figures refresh with the published school feed and describe the local landscape only; nothing is specific to an individual school until one is selected on a review page.

Adjacent coverage areas

Schools and MSPs near the edge of the BD area may find their nearest reviewed towns in a neighbouring postcode area: