Oasis Academy Enfield

Oasis Academy Enfield is a secondary academy and sixth form that has improved over the last year. Inspectors found strong leadership, high expectations and an ambitious curriculum that is being embedded successfully. Pupils behave respectfully, feel safe, and benefit from a calm and supportive environment. The school is committed to helping all pupils, including those with SEND and those who speak English as an additional language, achieve well from their starting points. Reading support, personal development, enrichment and careers guidance are notable strengths, and the sixth form is well designed to prepare students for their next steps. Safeguarding arrangements are effective. The main area for improvement is assessment use in teaching. Although staff generally have strong subject knowledge and question pupils well, this is not consistent. Sometimes the information teachers gather from checks on learning is not used well enough to move pupils on or close gaps, so misconceptions can persist and some pupils do not achieve as well as they might. The school and trust have been asked to ensure assessment information is used effectively across teaching. This was the school's first routine section 5 inspection, following an earlier section 8 inspection. The new principal took up post in April 2024, and the report notes that the trust plays a crucial role in supporting the school.

Strengths

• Strong leadership has united staff around a culture of high expectations.
• The ambitious curriculum is being embedded and is improving the quality of education.
• Pupils understand and meet the school's high expectations for behaviour.
• Staff have strong subject knowledge and use questioning well to check understanding.
• The school is nurturing a growing culture of reading with effective interventions.
• Pupils with SEND are well supported and make sound progress through the curriculum.
• Pupils who speak English as an additional language receive strong support to access the wider curriculum.
• The sixth-form curriculum is well designed and students receive helpful guidance for future opportunities.
• Personal development is prioritised through enrichment, culture days and careers guidance.
• The school provides particularly strong support for pupils who struggle with attendance, and persistent absence has reduced.
• Safeguarding arrangements are effective.
• Pupils feel safe and know they have trusted adults to report concerns to.

Areas for Improvement

• Assessment information from checks on learning is not consistently used well enough to adapt teaching.
• At times, pupils are not moved on when ready or gaps in their learning are not closed, so misconceptions persist.
• This inconsistency means some pupils do not achieve as well as they might.

Admissions: local authority offers data from the Department for Education. A school is oversubscribed when at least 5% of the families who put it first were not offered a place, and undersubscribed when everyone who put it first got in but 10% or more of its places were unfilled in the Department's school capacity survey (the latest survey is used for entry years it does not cover). Places: Department for Education, School capacity, from local authorities' annual survey as at 1 May. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024–25); the survey was not run in 2020. Places include sixth form places. Forecasts are the local authority's own for the school's planning area, an area it uses to plan places that is not the school's catchment area. The forecast starts from a head count in 2025; the dashed line is the Department's estimate of places in that area, including those the authority has firm plans for. Planned places are cumulative, and only those with firm plans are counted.

In 2024–25 pupils at Oasis Academy Enfield attended 89.6% of sessions (the national figure for secondary schools was 91.6%). 36.2% of pupils were persistently absent, missing at least one session in ten (nationally 23.4%).

Sessions missed

Pupils persistently absent

Source: Department for Education, Pupil absence in schools in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). Persistent absence means missing 10% or more of sessions; severe absence means 50% or more. No figures were published for 2019/20.

In 2024–25, 7.7% of pupils at Oasis Academy Enfield were suspended at least once (nationally 7.3%). No pupils were permanently excluded.

Pupils suspended at least once

Source: Department for Education, Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). A pupil can be suspended more than once, so suspensions per 100 pupils can be higher than the share of pupils suspended. Very small numbers are hidden by the DfE. Exclusion figures dropped in 2020 and 2021 because of school closures.

In 2025–26 Oasis Academy Enfield had 14.4 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for secondary schools was 16.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 33.5% were no longer at the school a year later (nationally 14.1%).

Pupils per teacher

Teachers who left the school within a year

Source: Department for Education, School workforce in England. Each year is the one the school year ends in (2025 is 2024/25). Pupils per teacher counts full-time-equivalent pupils and teachers. Turnover is the share of a year's teachers (full-time equivalent) who were not at the school the following year, whether they moved to another school or left state-funded teaching. Turnover and sickness figures run one year behind the ratios. Sick leave is the share of teachers who took at least one day in the year, so it swings widely at small schools, where a few teachers can make it 0% or 100%. The national figures are for all state schools of the same type.

In 2025–26, 14.1% of pupils at Oasis Academy Enfield were on SEN support (nationally 14.1%) and 6.2% had an education, health and care (EHC) plan (nationally 3.5%).

Pupils by main type of need

Source: Department for Education, Special educational needs in England (the 2025–26 school census). SEN support is extra help in school without an EHC plan. National figures are for all state-funded secondary schools. Counts are as published, with small numbers not hidden.

In 2024–25 Oasis Academy Enfield received £11,199 and spent £10,287 for each of its 719 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £631,000 (£877 per pupil).

Across all 56 schools of Oasis Community Learning, income was £9,249 and spending £9,031 per pupil.

Income per pupil

Spending per pupil

Source: Department for Education, Financial Benchmarking and Insights Tool. Each year is the one the financial year ends in (2024 is 2023–24). Academy figures include a share of the trust's central services, shared out by pupil numbers, and are rounded to the nearest £1,000. Premises costs were defined differently from 2024, so compare them across that gap with care.

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All schools in Enfield · Enfield local authority: places and applications

Oasis Academy Enfield is part of Oasis Community Learning, which runs 57 schools. The nearest others:

• Oasis Academy Hadley Enfield
• Oasis Academy Pinewood Romford
• Oasis School 21 Stratford
• Oasis School 360 London
• Oasis Academy Silvertown London
• Oasis Academy South Bank Primary London
• Oasis Academy South Bank London
• Oasis Academy Surrey Square London
• Oasis Academy Ryelands London
• Oasis Academy Arena London

What is Oasis Academy Enfield's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Oasis Academy Enfield is Good, from an inspection in April 2025.

When was Oasis Academy Enfield last inspected by Ofsted?

Oasis Academy Enfield was last inspected in April 2025.

How many pupils does Oasis Academy Enfield have?

Oasis Academy Enfield has 690 pupils on roll.

What age range does Oasis Academy Enfield cover?

Oasis Academy Enfield for pupils aged 11 to 18.

What are Oasis Academy Enfield's GCSE results?

In 2026 its average Attainment 8 score was 40.3, and 36% of pupils achieved grade 5 or above in both English and maths GCSE.

Where is Oasis Academy Enfield?

Oasis Academy Enfield is at Kinetic Crescent, Innova Park, Enfield, Middlesex, EN3 7XH.