Outwood Academy Adwick

Outwood Academy Adwick is demonstrating a good overall performance, with leaders fostering a friendly, inclusive culture where high expectations are prevalent. The school focuses on providing a well-planned curriculum that offers a variety of qualifications, catering to both academic and vocational pathways. While most pupils feel safe and valued, there are areas requiring improvement, particularly around behavior management, as low-level disruptions continue to affect some lessons.

Strengths

• The school has high expectations and ambitious vision shared by staff.
• Pupils feel safe and valued with a supportive culture.
• There is effective support for pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND).
• The curriculum prepares pupils well for future employment, education, or training.
• Staff are knowledgeable and enthusiastic about their subjects.
• Assessment practices identify gaps in learning effectively.
• Pupils benefit from a wide range of personal development opportunities and clubs.

Areas for Improvement

• A minority of pupils do not meet behavior expectations, disrupting lessons.
• Attendance rates among some groups of pupils are improving too slowly.
• Some leaders lack a clear strategic understanding of their impact on school improvement.

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 Outwood Academy Adwick attended 89.5% of sessions (the national figure for secondary schools was 91.6%). 30.0% 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, 10.9% of pupils at Outwood Academy Adwick were suspended at least once (nationally 7.3%). 5 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 Outwood Academy Adwick had 17.4 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for secondary schools was 16.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 19.4% 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, 18.4% of pupils at Outwood Academy Adwick were on SEN support (nationally 14.1%) and 2.9% 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 Outwood Academy Adwick received £7,851 and spent £8,111 for each of its 1,183 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £1,670,000 (£1,412 per pupil).

Across all 40 schools of Outwood Grange Academies Trust, income was £8,313 and spending £8,200 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 Doncaster · Doncaster local authority: places and applications

Outwood Academy Adwick is part of Outwood Grange Academies Trust, which runs 40 schools. The nearest others:

• Outwood Primary Academy Woodlands Doncaster
• Outwood Academy Danum Doncaster
• Outwood Academy Hemsworth Pontefract
• Outwood Primary Academy Bell Lane Pontefract
• Outwood Primary Academy Darfield Barnsley
• Outwood Academy Shafton Barnsley
• Outwood Primary Academy Newstead Green Wakefield
• Outwood Primary Academy Littleworth Grange Barnsley
• Outwood Academy Carlton Barnsley
• Outwood Academy Freeston Normanton

What is Outwood Academy Adwick's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Outwood Academy Adwick is Good, from an inspection in March 2023.

When was Outwood Academy Adwick last inspected by Ofsted?

Outwood Academy Adwick was last inspected in March 2023.

How many pupils does Outwood Academy Adwick have?

Outwood Academy Adwick has 1,048 pupils on roll.

What age range does Outwood Academy Adwick cover?

Outwood Academy Adwick for pupils aged 11 to 18.

What are Outwood Academy Adwick's GCSE results?

In 2026 its average Attainment 8 score was 43.6, and 45% of pupils achieved grade 5 or above in both English and maths GCSE.

Where is Outwood Academy Adwick?

Outwood Academy Adwick is at Windmill Balk Lane, Woodlands, Doncaster, South Yorkshire, DN6 7SF.