# Tong Leadership Academy — Bradford, United Kingdom > School profile on SchoolBrowse, based on verified parent reviews. > HTML version: https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/bradford/tong-leadership-academy-17302 ## At a glance - **Type:** Secondary - **Parent rating:** 1.7/5 from 12 published reviews - **Students:** 1600 - **Principal:** Stephen Dixon ## Contact - **Address:** Westgate Hill Street - **Phone:** +44 1274 681455 - **Website:** https://www.tongleadershipacademy.com - **SchoolBrowse profile:** https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/bradford/tong-leadership-academy-17302 ## About Tong Leadership Academy is a co-educational secondary school and sixth form located in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, serving pupils aged 11-18. Formerly known as Tong High School, the school underwent major remodelling in 2008 with a new building constructed and the old building demolished. In December 2016, the school converted to academy status and joined Star Academies (formerly Tauheedul Education Trust), adopting its current name and leadership specialism. The school was inspected by Ofsted in October 2023 and received a 'good' rating in all areas. As part of Star Academies, Tong Leadership Academy emphasizes leadership development alongside academic excellence, offering a comprehensive curriculum and extensive extracurricular activities including diverse sports teams for both boys and girls, community engagement programmes, and youth initiatives. ## Official rankings - **Ofsted (Behaviour and Attitudes):** Good — Oct 2023 - **Ofsted (Leadership and Management):** Good — Oct 2023 - **Ofsted (Overall Effectiveness):** Good — Oct 2023 - **Ofsted (Personal Development):** Good — Oct 2023 - **Ofsted (Quality of Education):** Good — Oct 2023 ## Recent parent reviews - **1/5** — Horrifying: Traumatised me. I got touched up by a year 10 when I was in year 8, teachers are no help emotionally or academically, worst experience of my life. Thinking back to high school feels like a fever dream. If you love your child, please god do not send them here as it’s traumatic. *(Jul 2025)* - **3/5** — A students honest review.: As a student im going to do a modern and strict review. This is a joke. We get learning teachers that are rubbish at teaching. They'll complicate the methods yet when it could be explained so simple. Top sets get learning teachers that when its like a major achievement to get into a top set, for me personally especially in a subject ive struggled with, having a learning/new teacher teach me has made me even thicker than I alreadly am in that area, several other students agreeing with me. It may … *(Jul 2025)* - **4/5** — Best bus T2: Since they stopped opening the emergency door to make that horried sound it's being the best time ever *(Jan 2025)* - **1/5** — Tong is not a good learning environment: I am student at tong I in year 7 the teachers are horrible most of them give detentions for the small reasons like someone fell of their chairs and they got an impacted and detention other than asking if they were okay the teachers does nothing to the bad students they are all way out of lesson or coming to lesson that are not post to be In most of the students are rude to the year 7 and teachers can and they do nothing like someone was running they can see and they give so much homework and if … *(Feb 2024)* - **1/5** — The issue with students at the school: School itself isn’t bad, the students in the school are. Teachers refuse to expel students that have continuous bad behaviour which really impacts the learning of others, multiple students can be seen out of class during lessons and teachers barely resolve the issue . I recommend this school should get another check up immediately. *(Feb 2024)* - **1/5** — Student: DONT SEND KIDS HERE! YOU GET BULLIED EVERYDAY TEACHERS HAVE FAVOURITES THEY DONT DEAL WITH ANY OF YOUR PROBLEMS THEY THINK ISOLATION WILL SOLVE ANYTHING THEY EXPECT YOU TO GO IN SCHOOL EVERYDAY AND DEAL WITH BULLYING THEY WONT LET YOU USE THE TOILET AND THEY WILL LITERALLY SEARCH YOUR PHONE AND TAKE IT OFF YOU THEY THREATHEN IF YOU DONT DO WHAT THEY SAY THAT YOULL GET SENT TO A DIFFERENT SCHOOL AND THAT THEY WILL PICK? SOMEONES BEEN KICKED OUT FOR FALSE ACCUSATIONS THEY WILL BELIEVE ANYTHING THE… *(May 2023)* - **1/5** — ITS TERRIBLE TONG: DONT SEND KIDS HERE! YOU GET BULLIED EVERYDAY TEACHERS HAVE FAVOURITES THEY DONT DEAL WITH ANY OF YOUR PROBLEMS THEY THINK ISOLATION WILL SOLVE ANYTHING THEY EXPECT YOU TO GO IN SCHOOL EVERYDAY AND DEAL WITH BULLYING THEY WONT LET YOU USE THE TOILET AND THEY WILL LITERALLY SEARCH YOUR PHONE AND TAKE IT OFF YOU THEY THREATHEN IF YOU DONT DO WHAT THEY SAY THAT YOULL GET SENT TO A DIFFERENT SCHOOL AND THAT THEY WILL PICK? SOMEONES BEEN KICKED OUT FOR FALSE ACCUSATIONS THEY WILL BELIEVE ANYTHING THE… *(May 2023)* - **1/5** — DONT SEND KIDS HERE: I’ve been bullied and I’ve only been to Tong for about half a year now. I’m in year 7 and teachers aren’t doing anything about it. DONT SEND YOUR CHILDREN HERE *(Feb 2023)* - **1/5** — do not send your kid to this school: it is awful don’t send anyone here no teachers help you at all and it is just shocking from all the teachers and they just scream at the students when they are not in the wrong and will do nothing at all to help you all they care about is their reputation *(Feb 2023)* - **2/5** — Six form application.: I was a student since Year 7 and when the 6 form application approached, we had been " guaranteed " by multiple staff members that we would certainly have a place and we would have no concerns. However the day after our last GCSE exams, we all recieved a letter stating the school had cancelled the 6 form course and left over 40 students scrounging for a place over the summer holidays. The school did nothing to support us and abandoned all of us, stranded in a cyclical structure of stress and tor… *(Jul 2022)* ## Other schools in Bradford - [Bronte Girls' Academy](https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/bradford/bronte-girls-academy-20730) — 1.5/5 (30 reviews) - [St Bede's and St Joseph's Catholic College, A Voluntary Academy](https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/bradford/st-bedes-and-st-josephs-catholic-college-a-voluntary-academy-21861) — 2.5/5 (19 reviews) - [Titus Salt School](https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/bradford/titus-salt-school-3147) — 2.1/5 (18 reviews) - [Buttershaw Business & Enterprise College Academy](https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/bradford/buttershaw-business-enterprise-college-academy-17358) — 1.5/5 (17 reviews) - [Dixons City Academy](https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/bradford/dixons-city-academy-10551) — 3.1/5 (15 reviews) - [Eden Boys' Leadership Academy, Bradford](https://schoolbrowse.com/gb/bradford/eden-boys-leadership-academy-bradford-20846) — 1.4/5 (12 reviews) --- Source: SchoolBrowse (https://schoolbrowse.com) — reviews and ratings are user-submitted by parents. 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