Graded inspection · Jan 2024 Previous framework
- Quality of education
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Personal development
- Leadership and management
This schoolOther secondary schools in Wakefield
What did Ofsted find?
Ofsted data to 30 September 2026| Area | Outstanding | Good | Requires improvement | Inadequate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality of education | Requires improvement | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Requires improvement | |||
| Personal development | Requires improvement | |||
| Leadership and management | Requires improvement | |||
| Sixth form provision | Requires improvement |
Inspection history
- 30 January 2024Graded inspection: Requires improvement
- 30 November 2022Ungraded inspection: School remains Good (Concerns)
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About these grades
Ofsted's report cards (from November 2025) grade each area on five steps and give no overall grade. Earlier grades come from a different framework; Ofsted says the two cannot be compared, so they are never converted here. Ofsted: "We normally inspect schools every 4 years or at any time if we have concerns." Methodology.
How hard is it to get a place?
DfE · Sept 2026 entry205 applications · 155 places offered · 144 named it first
- 2026 1.3; Wakefield median median 1.6
- 2025 1.2; Wakefield median median 1.8
- 2024 1.3; Wakefield median median 1.7
- 2023 1.1; Wakefield median median 1.6
- 2022 1.0; Wakefield median median 1.6
- 2021 1.1; Wakefield median median 1.6
- 2020 1.1; Wakefield median median 1.7
- 2019 1.2; Wakefield median median 1.6
- 2018 1.2; Wakefield median median 1.7
- 2017 1.2; Wakefield median median 1.7
- 2016 1.2; Wakefield median median 1.7
- 2015 1.2; Wakefield median median 1.8
- 2014 1.4; Wakefield median median 1.7
- This school
- Wakefield median
Year 7 applications for September 2027 close 31 October 2026, through your council
How this is measured
Applications per place: every application naming the school at any preference, divided by places offered on National Offer Day. It is not your chance of a place. Methodology.
| Entry | Places | Applications | Per place | First preferences | First-pref. ratio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2026 | 155 | 205 | 1.3 | 144 | 0.93 |
| Sep 2025 | 177 | 211 | 1.2 | 141 | 0.80 |
| Sep 2024 | 173 | 225 | 1.3 | 164 | 0.95 |
| Sep 2023 | 189 | 207 | 1.1 | 150 | 0.79 |
| Sep 2022 | 210 | 200 | 1.0 | 156 | 0.74 |
| Sep 2021 | 172 | 196 | 1.1 | 141 | 0.82 |
| Sep 2020 | 184 | 205 | 1.1 | 149 | 0.81 |
| Sep 2019 | 141 | 173 | 1.2 | 130 | 0.92 |
| Sep 2018 | 179 | 221 | 1.2 | 163 | 0.91 |
| Sep 2017 | 177 | 220 | 1.2 | 166 | 0.94 |
| Sep 2016 | 153 | 184 | 1.2 | 137 | 0.90 |
| Sep 2015 | 160 | 197 | 1.2 | 156 | 0.98 |
| Sep 2014 | 107 | 151 | 1.4 | 106 | 0.99 |
How did pupils do at GCSE?
DfE KS4 · 2025/26 provisionalEvery year as a table
| Year | Pupils | Attainment 8 | 5+ Eng & maths | 4+ Eng & maths | Progress 8 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 (prov.) | 201 | 39.4 | 35% | 60% | – |
| 2024/25 | 195 | 33.8 | 25% | 44% | – |
| 2023/24 | 158 | 34.0 | 24% | 40% | −0.72 |
| 2022/23 | 178 | 33.2 | 23% | 42% | −0.68 |
Progress 8 is not published for 2024/25 or 2025/26: those pupils had no key stage 2 tests in 2020 and 2021.
Schools nearby
The 8 nearest secondary schools in a straight line, in any local authority
- Airedale AcademyThis schoolThis schoolRequires improvement20241.3applications per place 39.4Attainment 8
- 2.1 km · WakefieldGraded · no overall grade20251.6applications per place 46.8Attainment 8
- 4.0 km · WakefieldGood20222.4applications per place 51.8Attainment 8
- 20262.2applications per place 46.1Attainment 8
- 5.0 km · Wakefield20261.2applications per place 45.0Attainment 8
- 5.0 km · WakefieldImproved significantly20242.4applications per place 44.3Attainment 8
- 5.4 km · WakefieldRemains Good20222.4applications per place 39.7Attainment 8
- 6.1 km · LeedsStandards maintained20242.2applications per place 51.5Attainment 8
- 7.2 km · WakefieldGraded · no overall grade20251.4applications per place 44.6Attainment 8
- Exceptional
- Strong standard
- Expected standard
- Needs attention
- Urgent improvement
- Does not apply
Eight dots, one per area: inclusion, curriculum, achievement, attendance, personal development, early years, post-16, leadership. Colours follow Ofsted's report card scale; Schoolfile is independent of Ofsted.
School details
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- URN · DfE number
- 136613 · 384/4026
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Capacity
- 1,250 pupils · 1,008 on roll
- Free school meals
- 51.9% of pupils (England median 23%)
- SEN provision
- Resourced provision
- Opened
- 1 April 2011
- Replaced
- Airedale High School (URN 108278)
- Address
- Crewe Road, Airedale, Castleford, WF10 3JU
- Local authority
- Wakefield
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources