Outwood Primary Academy Greenhill

Outwood Primary Academy Greenhill is a primary school that was inspected in July 2025 and received good judgements across quality of education, behaviour and attitudes, personal development, leadership and management, and early years provision. This was its first routine section 5 inspection, and the report notes that the school joined Outwood Grange Academies Trust in 2022 and has adopted the trust's curriculum, policies and practices. Pupils are happy, behave well and respond positively to the school's clear rules, while leaders have high expectations and provide a broad, ambitious curriculum from Nursery to Year 6. The school's main strengths include a well-organised curriculum that builds knowledge and skills over time, effective support for pupils with SEND and those who speak English as an additional language, and purposeful systems for checking what pupils know and remember. Early reading and early years provision are prioritised strongly, with pupils developing confidence and accuracy in reading and young children benefiting from a language-rich environment. Pupils also have strong opportunities for personal development through trust diplomas, leadership roles, community activities and a range of clubs. The trust provides effective support, and safeguarding arrangements are effective. The main area for improvement is feedback. Although staff generally give feedback to help pupils review and improve work immediately, they do not always provide enough time for pupils to respond to written feedback. As a result, some pupils repeat mistakes and do not improve specific aspects of their work quickly enough. The report asks the school to ensure feedback is used purposefully so pupils address misconceptions and embed important learning securely.

Strengths

• Ambitious, well-organised curriculum builds knowledge and skills from Nursery to Year 6
• Careful adaptations ensure pupils with SEND and those who speak English as an additional language can access the curriculum
• Pupils have positive attitudes to learning and concentrate well
• Purposeful assessment systems help identify gaps and support recap and retention
• Strong early reading provision, including focused phonics support and reading ambassadors
• Early years provision prioritises language acquisition and helps children become school ready
• Personal development is supported through trust diplomas, leadership roles and community activities
• A range of extracurricular and lunchtime clubs are available
• Effective trust support and consideration for staff workload and well-being
• Safeguarding arrangements are effective

Areas for Improvement

• Staff do not always give pupils enough time to respond to feedback, so some pupils repeat mistakes and do not improve work swiftly enough

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 Primary Academy Greenhill attended 94.7% of sessions (the national figure for primary schools was 94.8%). 12.2% of pupils were persistently absent, missing at least one session in ten (nationally 13.0%).

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, 2.4% of pupils at Outwood Primary Academy Greenhill were suspended at least once (nationally 1.1%). 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 Outwood Primary Academy Greenhill had 19.8 pupils for each teacher (the national figure for primary schools was 20.7). Of its teachers in 2024–25, 42.4% were no longer at the school a year later (nationally 15.7%).

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, 6.0% of pupils at Outwood Primary Academy Greenhill were on SEN support (nationally 15.4%) and 4.0% had an education, health and care (EHC) plan (nationally 4.1%).

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 primary schools. Counts are as published, with small numbers not hidden.

In 2024–25 Outwood Primary Academy Greenhill received £6,454 and spent £7,081 for each of its 232 pupils. It ended the year with reserves of £327,000 (£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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Outwood Primary Academy Greenhill is part of Outwood Grange Academies Trust, which runs 40 schools. The nearest others:

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

What is Outwood Primary Academy Greenhill's Ofsted rating?

The latest Ofsted rating for Outwood Primary Academy Greenhill is Good, from an inspection in September 2025.

When was Outwood Primary Academy Greenhill last inspected by Ofsted?

Outwood Primary Academy Greenhill was last inspected in September 2025.

How many pupils does Outwood Primary Academy Greenhill have?

Outwood Primary Academy Greenhill has 251 pupils on roll.

What age range does Outwood Primary Academy Greenhill cover?

Outwood Primary Academy Greenhill for pupils aged 3 to 11.

What are Outwood Primary Academy Greenhill's SATs (KS2) results?

In 2025, 57% of Year 6 pupils met the expected standard in reading, writing and maths.

Where is Outwood Primary Academy Greenhill?

Outwood Primary Academy Greenhill is at Greenhill Road, Eastmoor, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, WF1 4LU.