MORE than 80 schools in Bradford are starting late today due to heavy snowfall, with some even closing entirely.

There are 89 schools in total that have said they are employing a partial or full closure due to the weather, on Bradford Council's website.

Most say they will open at 10am, to allow staff and pupils to navigate the tricky conditions.

But six are shut for the whole day.

Here is a full list of partial and full closures this morning (as of 8.30am):

School Closures (90)

Full Closures (6)

  • Belle Vue Girls' Academy
    • Reason: Due to dangerous conditions on and around the site, Belle Vue Girls' Academy will be closed today. Students will revert to remote learning, information will be sent to student email addresses.
  • Brackenhill Primary School
    • Reason: Due to the hazardous travelling conditions and the current weather forecast for the day, for more snow, school will be closed today. Remote learning will be provided for the children. Apologies for any inconvenience this may cause.
  • Park Aspire
    • Reason: School will be closed due to the adverse weather and the health and safety of staff and pupils travelling to both sites.
  • Parkside School
    • Reason: Due to hazardous driving and worsening weather conditions we have made the difficult decision to close today. Work will be set on Class Charts for all classes. The Food practical exam will be rearranged for Monday - more details will follow about the arrangements for this.
  • St Francis Catholic Primary School
    • Reason: Due to heavy snowfall, dangerous conditions and high level of staff absence, school will remain closed today. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.
  • St Matthew's CofE Primary School and Nursery
    • Reason: Due to adverse weather conditions, the school will be closed today.

Partial Closures (84)

  • Abbey Green Nursery School & Children's Centre
    • Reason: Due to the heavy snowfall and road conditions the school will delay opening until 10am. Apologies for any inconvenience.
  • Addingham Primary School
    • Reason: Due to the snow conditions school will be on a delayed start of 10am. A review of the situation will be taken at 9am.
  • All Saints CofE Primary School (Bradford)
    • Reason: School will open at 09.00am today, registers will stay open until 10.00am. Breakfast club is open as usual. This is due to the weather conditions.
  • Baildon CofE Primary School
    • Reason: Snow
    • Notes: Due to heavy snowfall overnight, we are delaying our opening time until 10.00 this morning to enable staff and children to travel safely to school.
  • Beckfoot Allerton Primary School and Nursery
    • Reason: Due to the snow, we are delaying our opening time until 10.00 this morning to enable staff and children to travel safely to school.
  • Beckfoot Heaton Primary
    • Reason: Due to the inclement weather today, we will be opening from 10 am. Please be safe. Thank you
  • Beckfoot Oakbank
    • Reason: Due to weather conditions school will open at 10am
  • Beckfoot Priestthorpe Primary School & Nursery
    • Reason: Due to conditions on site, we will open at 10.00 am this morning.
  • Beckfoot Upper Heaton
    • Reason: Due to the inclement weather today, we will be opening from 10 am. Please be safe. Thank you
  • Blakehill Primary School
    • Reason: Snow/Ice
    • Notes: Early Birds/School will be open at the usual time, we will however keep the register open until 10:00 am to allow pupils to arrive safely.
  • Bowling Park Primary School
    • Reason: Snow
    • Notes: Due to heavy snowfall in the area, school will delay opening until 10am. Children wishing to come to breakfast club or to arrive at the normal time of 8.45am, can still do so. Take care on the roads and we looking forward to seeing you soon.
  • Bradford Forster Academy
    • Reason: Due to weather this morning (Thursday 31 March 2022) we have a delayed start at 9:30am to students, please travel safely. Thank you
  • Bradford Girls' Grammar School
    • Reason: Due to the adverse weather this morning, school will open at the later time of 10am.
  • Buttershaw Business & Enterprise College Academy
    • Reason: Due to the unforecast and very poor weather conditions, school will officially open at 10am this morning to allow students and staff to arrive safely. Any students arriving before this time will be made very welcome.
  • Carlton Bolling
    • Reason: Due to the heavy snow Carlton Bolling will open as normal but with a delayed start, students expected in school for 9:10am with lessons resuming 9.20am.
  • Carrwood Primary School
    • Reason: Snow
    • Notes: Due to heavy snowfall overnight, we are delaying our opening time until 10.00 this morning to enable staff and children to travel safely to school.
  • Cavendish Primary School
    • Reason: School to open at 10.00am today to allow pupils and staff to arrive safely at school. Sorry for any inconvenience. Thank you.
  • Christ Church Church of England Academy
    • Reason: In light of snowfall overnight, we will open at 10am to allow children and staff time to travel safely to school. the ongoing forecast suggests conditions will improve over the morning.
  • Clayton St John CofE Primary School
    • Reason: Due to heavy snow in parts, school will open at 10am to ensure we have enough staff to open safely. We will be reassessing and will keep parents/carers informed. Apologies for any inconvenience. Please take care.
  • Clayton Village Primary School
    • Reason: Adverse Weather
    • Notes: School will be opening today at 10am. The situation will be reassessed therefore we will keep you updated here in the next hour.
  • Co-op Academy Parkland
    • Reason: Due to weather conditions school will open at 10am - please can everyone use the front entrance only
  • Co-op Academy Princeville
    • Reason: Due to heavy snowfall over night, and dangerous road conditions across the city, school will open at 10am. This will enable everyone to travel safely, and the site to be cleared.
  • Copthorne Primary School
    • Reason: Due to the poor travelling conditions caused by the snow, school will open at 10am this morning to allow staff and pupils to get to school safely.
    • Notes: Open from 10.00am
  • Cottingley Village Primary School
    • Reason: Weather conditions- Staff and children struggling to get to school. School will open at 10:15am but we will update from 9am.
  • Crossflatts Primary School
    • Reason: Due to the current weather conditions we are delaying the opening of school until 10am today to provide more time for staff and families to travel safely into school and for us to clear our site. We will update at 9am if full closure required.
  • Cullingworth Village Primary School
    • Reason: We have reluctantly made the decision to delay opening the school until 10am this morning. This is due to allow staff and students to travel to school safely following the unexpected heavy snowfall.
    • Notes: Please can parents and carers keep a look out in case of any further updates as staff numbers were already extremely low due to illness/COVID. Thank you.
  • Denholme Primary School
    • Reason: We will open at 10.30 due to site conditions and a plumbing issue affecting children's toilets. We apologise for the inconvenience.
  • Dixons Allerton Academy
    • Reason: To allow snow to be cleared on the main roads and the site the Academy will open at 10am today.
  • Dixons Kings Academy
    • Reason: Due to safety reasons the Academy will open to students at 9am. Parents should aim to have their children arrive for this time. Thank you
  • Eastburn Junior and Infant School
    • Reason: Due to the heavy snowfall and road conditions the school will delay opening until 10am. Apologies for any inconvenience.
  • Eldwick Primary School
    • Reason: School is opening today, but early snowfall could make the journey more difficult. Please get to school safely and when you can, don't take any risks.. (No late marks)
  • Farnham Primary School
    • Reason: Due to the heavy snow fall overnight Farnham Primary School will open at 10am to allow our children and staff to travel safely to school.
  • Fearnville Primary School
    • Reason: Snow
    • Notes: Due to heavy snowfall overnight, we are delaying our opening time until 10.00 this morning to enable staff and children to travel safely to school.
  • Frizinghall Primary School
    • Reason: Due to the heavy snowfall and road conditions, the school will delay opening until 10 am. Apologies for any inconvenience.
  • Girlington Primary School
    • Reason: Due to the current weather conditions we are delaying the opening of school until 10am today, to provide more time for staff to travel safely into school.
  • Grove House Primary School
    • Reason: Due to heavy snowfall overnight, we are delaying our opening time until 10.00 this morning to enable staff and children to travel safely to school.
  • Hanson School
    • Reason: Hanson School will open at 10.00am today to allow students and staff to arrive safely at school due to current weather conditions. Provision will be made for students arriving early. Apologies for any inconvenience
  • Harden Primary School
    • Reason: Due to snow and conditions in the school grounds, school will open at 10am. Sorry for any inconveniance.
  • High Crags Primary Leadership Academy
    • Reason: School will open at 10am today to allow all pupils and staff to travel safely.
    • Notes: School will open at 10am today to allow all pupils and staff to travel safely.
  • Hirst Wood Nursery School & Children's Centre
    • Reason: Due to the snow, to ensure site safety and availability of staffing the school will open at 10:00 this morning. This also applies to our sunshine club before school provision. Sorry for any inconvenience caused.
  • Hollingwood Primary School
    • Reason: Due to the snow overnight which has caused poor travelling conditions, we are delaying our opening time until 10.00am this morning to enable pupils and staff to travel safely to school.
    • Notes: Open from 10.00am
  • Holybrook Primary School
    • Reason: Due to the poor travelling conditions caused by the snow, school will open at 10am this morning to allow staff and pupils to get to school safely.
    • Notes: School opens at 10am.
  • Horton Grange Primary School
    • Reason: Delayed opening until 10am due to snowfall to allow children and staff to travel safely.
  • Hoyle Court Primary School
    • Reason: Due to the adverse weather conditions, school will open at 10am. We will give a further update at 9am dependent on weather conditions. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.
  • Idle CofE Primary School
    • Reason: Due to snow overnight and ongoing snow expected over rush hour, school will open at 10am for pupils and staff to allow safe travel for all. Breakfast club will run for those who can safely attend.
  • Immanuel College
    • Reason: ***Weather Update -10am start*** Due to the inclement weather this morning we are delaying the start of school to 10am. All students expected to arrive at 10am when school will continue as normal. Thank you and apologies for any inconvenience.
  • Keelham Primary School
    • Reason: Due to poor weather and staff delayed travel, school will have a delayed opening and begin at 10 am. Keelham Crew will continue to stay open this morning for families in need, however if it’s safer to keep your child at home, please do. Please keep a check on class dojo and email for further updates. Kind regards
  • Keighley St Andrew's CofE Primary School & Nursery
    • Reason: To allow time for staff and pupils to arrive safely school will open at 9.30 this morning.
  • Lapage Primary School and Nursery
    • Reason: Due to the heavy snowfall and road conditions, the school will delay opening until 10am for all pupils. Apologies for any inconvenience. Take care on your journey.
  • Laycock Primary School
    • Reason: Due to the heavy & ongoing snow fall, we will aim to open school at 10.00am today to allow staff and children to access the school site. Please accept our apologies for the inconvenience.
    • Notes: School open from 10.00am No Breakfast Club this morning due to staff unable to access the site currently. Please accept our apologies.
  • Lidget Green Primary School
    • Reason: School to open at 10.00am today to allow pupils and staff to arrive safely at school
    • Notes: Heavy snow
  • Long Lee Primary School
    • Reason: We are delaying the opening of school this morning until 10.00am to allow all staff, parents and children to get into school safely. The roads in the local area and around school are quite treacherous.
    • Notes: Breakfast club is open.
  • Low Ash Primary School
    • Reason: Low Ash will open for pupils at 10am today to allow time for all staff and pupils to travel safely to school. We apologise for any inconvenience that this may cause.
  • Lower Fields Primary Academy
    • Reason: School will open at the later time of 10.00am today due to heavy snow and traffic problems.
  • Margaret McMillan Primary School
    • Reason: delayed opening of 10am to allow staff and pupils to come to school safely
  • Merlin Top Primary Academy
    • Reason: Due to the weather conditions, school will open for children at 10am today to allow time for everyone to get to school safely.
  • Midland Road Nursery School
    • Reason: Due to the heavy snowfall the school will delay opening until 10am. Apologies for any inconvenience.
  • Myrtle Park Primary School
    • Reason: Due to the adverse weather conditions, school is aiming for a 10.00 a.m. start. We will give a further update at 9.00 a.m. dependent on weather conditions. We apologise for the inconvenience this may cause.
  • Newby Primary School
    • Reason: School opening at 10am for children today to allow safe journey for all. Working parents are able to drop at usual time, including breakfast club. NURSERY will be closed today.
  • Newhall Park Primary School
    • Reason: Difficult journey conditions due to snow
    • Notes: School will open at 10:00 this morning to allow staff, children and parents to arrive safely.
  • One In A Million Free School
    • Reason: Due to heavy snowfall overnight One In a Million Free School will open to students at 10:00am. This will allow staff and students extra time to travel safely to the school.
  • Peel Park Primary School and Nursery
    • Reason: Due to the weather conditions, school will open for children at 10am today to allow time for everyone to get to school safely.
  • Rainbow Primary Leadership Academy
    • Reason: Due to heavy snow on the roads and unsafe driving conditions, the school will open at 10.00am to alllow time for all staff and pupils to arrive safely.
    • Notes: The school will open at 10.00am for all pupils. Sorry for the inconvenience.
  • Riddlesden St Mary's CofE Primary School
    • Reason: Due to the heavy snowfall school will not start until 10.am
    • Notes: Due to the continuing snowfall school will be closed until 10.am to allow the grounds to be cleared and made safe and to allow staff to travel to school safely. Please be careful when making your way into school. Thank you
  • Saltaire Primary School
    • Reason: Due to the current weather conditions we are delaying the opening of school until 10:30am today to provide more time for staff and families to travel safely into school and for us to clear our site. We will update at 9am if full closure required.
  • Sandy Lane Primary School
    • Reason: Due to snowfall and to allow roads and site to be cleared, school will open at 10.30am today. There will be no Bright Sparks this morning. Sorry for the inconvenience that this causes.
  • Shipley CofE Primary School
    • Reason: Due to the early weather conditions, we are delaying school opening to 10am today to allow staff extra time to arrive safely.
    • Notes: The forecast seems to be for improved conditions later today.
  • St Bede's & St Joseph's Catholic College
    • Reason: Thursday 31 March. Due to the weather this morning, lessons will start at 9.30am. Students arriving before this are to go straight to their House areas. We are assured that the snow will clear as the day progresses.
  • St Joseph's Catholic Primary School (Bingley)
    • Reason: Due to the snow, we are delaying our opening time until 10.00 this morning to enable staff and children to travel safely to school.
  • St Joseph's Catholic Primary School (Bradford)
    • Reason: School opening at 10am for children today to allow safe journey for all. Working parents are able to drop at breakfast club.
  • St Luke's CofE Primary School
    • Reason: Due to the weather conditions around the school site school will open at 10am today to allow children and staff to travel safely to school. There will be no breakfast club today. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.
  • St Philip's CofE Primary School
    • Reason: In light of snowfall overnight, we will now open at 9.30am to allow children and staff time to travel safely to school. There will be no breakfast club and we apologise for any inconvenience caused. Thank you
    • Notes: The ongoing forecast suggests conditions will improve over the morning so we will review the situation before 9am if there is a need to change these arrangements. We will message out to parents with updates. The earlier start time of 10am was revised to 9.30am as staff.
  • St Walburga's Catholic Primary School
    • Reason: Snow - Late Opening - Breakfast Club is closed today due to the weather. School will open at 10.00am to allow staff to arrive before pupils.
  • Stocks Lane Primary School
    • Reason: Due to the current weather conditions we are delaying opening until 10am to provide more time for staff and pupils to travel safely. We will update if full closure is required.
  • Strong Close Nursery School
    • Reason: Due to the weather conditions the school will close for the morning and re-open at 12.30pm in order for staff and families to access the site and provision safely. Please see our What's Happening and half termly newsletter for links to home learning as well as our home learning page on our website and staff story and rhyme videos on our Facebook page.
  • The Academy At St. James
    • Reason: Due to the poor travelling conditions caused by the snow, school will open at 10am this morning to allow staff and pupils to get to school safely.
    • Notes: Open from 10am
  • The Holy Family Catholic School
    • Reason: Due to adverse weather conditions the school start has been delayed until 10am.
  • Thornbury Primary Leadership Academy
    • Reason: Due to weather conditions school will be open for children at 10am. This will allow staff to travel into school. We will keep you updated if there are any changes. Many thanks for your understanding.
  • Titus Salt School
    • Reason: Due to the overnight and early morning snowfall, the journey into school is proving difficult so the decision was made at 6.45am this morning to delay the opening of school until 10.00am - a message was sent out on Parent Mail and posted on our website.
  • Westbourne Primary School
    • Reason: Please note that the due to the snow and consequent hazardous travelling conditions there will be a delayed opening at school this morning. School will open at 10am to allow pupils and staff to arrive safely.
  • Wibsey Primary School 
    • Reason: 10 AM start today to allow for a safe start and to ensure all staff are in. Children booked into Breakfast Club to come in as normal.
  • Worth Valley Primary School
    • Reason: Due to overnight snowfall and more heavy snow forecast for the next hour, school will open at 10am to allow for staff and families to travel safely.
  • Wycliffe CofE Primary School
    • Reason: School is partially closed today. Due to heavy snowfall overnight, we are delaying our opening time until 10.00 this morning to enable staff and children to travel safely to school.