Graded inspection · Mar 2023 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 | Good | |||
| Behaviour and attitudes | Good | |||
| Personal development | Good | |||
| Leadership and management | Good |
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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 entry448 applications · 137 places offered · 201 named it first
FaithMay give priority to families of the faith.
- 2026 3.3; Wakefield median median 1.6
- 2025 3.0; Wakefield median median 1.8
- 2024 2.6; Wakefield median median 1.7
- 2023 2.2; Wakefield median median 1.6
- 2022 2.2; Wakefield median median 1.6
- 2021 1.9; Wakefield median median 1.6
- 2020 2.1; Wakefield median median 1.7
- 2019 2.4; Wakefield median median 1.6
- 2018 2.2; Wakefield median median 1.7
- 2017 2.1; Wakefield median median 1.7
- 2016 1.9; Wakefield median median 1.7
- 2015 2.2; Wakefield median median 1.8
- 2014 2.0; 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 | 137 | 448 | 3.3 | 201 | 1.47 |
| Sep 2025 | 143 | 423 | 3.0 | 178 | 1.24 |
| Sep 2024 | 144 | 375 | 2.6 | 144 | 1.00 |
| Sep 2023 | 141 | 308 | 2.2 | 146 | 1.04 |
| Sep 2022 | 124 | 273 | 2.2 | 115 | 0.93 |
| Sep 2021 | 144 | 276 | 1.9 | 133 | 0.92 |
| Sep 2020 | 130 | 272 | 2.1 | 122 | 0.94 |
| Sep 2019 | 140 | 333 | 2.4 | 161 | 1.15 |
| Sep 2018 | 146 | 319 | 2.2 | 148 | 1.01 |
| Sep 2017 | 125 | 265 | 2.1 | 113 | 0.90 |
| Sep 2016 | 128 | 238 | 1.9 | 124 | 0.97 |
| Sep 2015 | 110 | 239 | 2.2 | 100 | 0.91 |
| Sep 2014 | 118 | 235 | 2.0 | 115 | 0.97 |
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.) | 142 | 49.1 | 51% | 66% | – |
| 2024/25 | 148 | 46.3 | 45% | 66% | – |
| 2023/24 | 145 | 46.5 | 50% | 62% | +0.29 |
| 2022/23 | 149 | 44.1 | 40% | 62% | +0.26 |
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
- St Thomas à Becket Catholic Secondary School, A Voluntary AcademyThis schoolThis schoolGood20233.3applications per place 49.1Attainment 8
- 1.8 km · Wakefield20261.7applications per place 48.8Attainment 8
- 2.4 km · Wakefield20263.0applications per place 50.9Attainment 8
- 3.1 km · WakefieldGood20221.5applications per place 44.5Attainment 8
- 3.6 km · WakefieldGood20232.0applications per place 49.3Attainment 8
- 4.2 km · Wakefield20263.0applications per place 51.0Attainment 8
- 5.6 km · WakefieldGood20241.6applications per place 49.2Attainment 8
- 6.0 km · WakefieldGraded · no overall grade20251.4applications per place 44.6Attainment 8
- 6.3 km · Wakefield20261.6applications per place 49.8Attainment 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
- 138950 · 384/4800
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Religious character
- Roman Catholic
- Capacity
- 750 pupils · 762 on roll
- Free school meals
- 29.6% of pupils (England median 23%)
- SEN provision
- Resourced provision
- Opened
- 1 November 2012
- Replaced
- St Thomas A Becket Catholic College Specialist Status In Humanities: With Autism Resource (URN 108299)
- Address
- Barnsley Road, Wakefield, WF2 6EQ
- Local authority
- Wakefield
Data last changed 19 October 2026 · Report an error · Corrections · Sources