akbank School is a Foundation co-educational comprehensive school catering for day students aged 11 to 19. It has just over 1800 students, of whom about 220 are in our sixth form. We take in 330 pupils a year. Foundation status means that we are funded through Bradford LA but we are our own employers, run out own admissions policy, own our own land.

We are a Specialist Sports and Technology College selected by the Sports Council and the DCSF because of our record of sporting success. This record continues. This means we have extra resources for developing sport and technology in school and in the community, more teachers and more coaches able to offer a wider variety of activities. All this is in addition to the normal curriculum and not instead of it.

The school is on a very pleasant extensive site. It has a full range of facilities, including playing fields, an artificial turf pitch, sports hall, 2 gyms, drama studio, dance studio, music and practice rooms, design and technology areas, 13 science laboratories, a highly praised learning centre and many other specialist areas. We also have a specialist Learning Support Unit. We have a separate sixth form block. Our specialist status has enabled us to set up a fully equipped fitness gym, renovate and extend changing rooms, create tennis courts and improve equipment. In 2005 we added a new vocational block and in 2006 a new reception and student social areas were added.

The school is open daily from early morning late into the evening. Many people from the local community make use of our sports facilities and our extensive extended schools programme.