Outwood Academy City Fields

Outwood Academy City Fields is performing well overall, with a good quality of education, leadership, personal development, and a notable emphasis on pupil safety and wellbeing. The school aims high for its students, fostering a strong ambition among both leaders and staff. While most pupils exhibit good behavior and respect, there are challenges with a minority who disrupt lessons, prompting efforts by leaders to enhance behavior management. This report marks the first inspection since the school transitioned to Outwood Grange Academies Trust and comes after a lengthy gap since its previous outstanding grade nine years ago under an earlier framework.

Strengths

• Leaders demonstrate high ambitions for pupils and have a clear focus on their education.
• The curriculum is well-organized, promoting high achievement and skill retention.
• Reading support schemes are effective for struggling readers and EAL students.
• Safeguarding measures are strong, ensuring pupil safety and well-being.

Areas for Improvement

• A minority of pupils do not meet behavior expectations, causing disruptions.
• Attendance issues persist for some pupils, requiring stronger support from parents.
• SEND provision is inconsistent as it goes through a transitional phase.

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 City Fields attended 90.8% of sessions (the national figure for secondary schools was 91.6%). 28.2% 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 Outwood Academy City Fields were suspended at least once (nationally 7.3%). 2 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 City Fields had 16.3 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for secondary schools was 16.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 13.7% 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, 6.5% of pupils at Outwood Academy City Fields were on SEN support (nationally 14.1%) and 1.9% 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 City Fields received £7,998 and spent £7,886 for each of its 902 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £1,273,000 (£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 Wakefield · Wakefield local authority: places and applications

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

• Outwood Primary Academy Park Hill Wakefield
• Outwood Primary Academy Greenhill Wakefield
• Outwood Primary Academy Ledger Lane Wakefield
• Outwood Grange Academy Wakefield
• Outwood Primary Academy Lofthouse Gate Wakefield
• Outwood Academy Freeston Normanton
• Outwood Primary Academy Kirkhamgate Wakefield
• Outwood Primary Academy Newstead Green Wakefield
• Outwood Primary Academy Bell Lane Pontefract
• Outwood Academy Carlton Barnsley

What is Outwood Academy City Fields's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Outwood Academy City Fields is Good, from an inspection in May 2022.

When was Outwood Academy City Fields last inspected by Ofsted?

Outwood Academy City Fields was last inspected in May 2022.

How many pupils does Outwood Academy City Fields have?

Outwood Academy City Fields has 928 pupils on roll.

What age range does Outwood Academy City Fields cover?

Outwood Academy City Fields for pupils aged 11 to 16.

What are Outwood Academy City Fields's GCSE results?

In 2026 its average Attainment 8 score was 44.5, and 52% of pupils achieved grade 5 or above in both English and maths GCSE.

Where is Outwood Academy City Fields?

Outwood Academy City Fields is at Warmfield View, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, WF1 4SF.