Beckfoot Thornton
Beckfoot Thornton is a mixed secondary school and sixth form located in Thornton, West Yorkshire, England.
It is an Academy administered by Beckfoot Trust since 2016 and formerly a comprehensive foundation school administered by City of [Bradford Metropolitan District Council|Bradford City Council] and the Thornton Grammar and Queensbury [School (West Yorkshire)|Queensbury School] Learning Trust. It offers GCSEs and Business and [Technology Education Council|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.
Notable former pupils
- Amjad Bashir, politician
- Eric Bedford,, architect
- John Edward Fletcher, scholar
- Robin [Fox (anthropologist)|Robin Fox], anthropologist
- Jack Kitching, rugby league player
- Leon Pryce, rugby league player
- Matt Clifford, entrepreneur