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Secondary school in Doncaster

Outwood Academy Adwick

Windmill Balk Lane, Woodlands, Doncaster, South Yorkshire, DN6 7SF

Ofsted Good · 2023 Sixth form
School website 01302722237

Ofsted

Goodas at 17 January 2023

Graded Good at its last graded inspection, on 17 January 2023.

Ofsted stopped awarding single-word overall grades in September 2024. This grade is 3 years old and will not be updated — the school keeps it until its next inspection, which will not produce a replacement grade.

Read the Ofsted report

GCSE results 2024/25

Attainment 8 score

43.7 England 47

The average grade across eight GCSEs, doubling English and maths. 50 is roughly a grade 5 average.

Grade 5+ in English & maths

42% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

64% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

3.7 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

23% England 40.8%

On Attainment 8 this school is in the lower half of state-funded secondaries in England.

Compared with the fifth of schools whose intake is second most disadvantaged, which is where this one sits, it is in the better-performing half.

Progress 8 2023/24

-0.18confidence interval -0.38 to 0.02

Taking that range into account, progress was not statistically different from the national average. DfE bands this as average.

Progress 8 measures how far pupils moved between the end of primary and their GCSEs, which makes it far fairer than raw attainment. It is shown for 2023/24 because it could not be calculated for 2024/25: that year group would have sat their key stage 2 tests in summer 2020, when the tests were cancelled, so there is no starting point to measure from. Every school in England is affected, not just this one.

A levels 2024/25

Average grade per entry
D+
Average points per entry
22.6

England average 32.3

A level students
22

Pupils

Pupils on roll
1048
Places
1300
How full
81% full — 1048 of 1300 places taken
Girls / boys
539 / 509
Overall absence
11%

secondary schools average 8.6%

Persistently absent
30%

secondary schools average 23.9% — pupils missing 10% or more of sessions

Free school meals, last 6 years
40%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
6%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
3%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
19%

England 15%

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
82%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
75%

England 85.4%

Started an apprenticeship
3%

England 3.5%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
30%
No sustained destination
10%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
181

After sixth form

Went to university
33%

England 50%

In education, work or training
80%

England 84.3%

Started an apprenticeship
9%

England 6.5%

Students in the cohort
54

Going on to university 2021/22 leavers

Went to a top third university

6% England 20.9%

The third of higher education providers whose entrants hold the highest average entry qualifications. It is the closest thing in the public data to "did they get into a competitive university", and it separates schools far more sharply than the headline progression rate does.

Went on to a degree
47%

England 65.3%

Students in the cohort
47

These follow an earlier group of leavers than the figures above, and count anyone reaching higher education within two years rather than the term after leaving, so they are not directly comparable with them.

A destination counts only if it lasted at least six months, which is why these figures lag the exam results by a year, and why the university figures track leavers from 2021/22. Small cohorts move these percentages a long way — check the cohort size before reading much into a gap.

The neighbourhood around the school

Census 2021 figures for Doncaster 009A, the statistical neighbourhood the school sits in — roughly 1,500 residents. It describes the area, not the pupils, who may travel in from further away.

Adults with a degree
16%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
28%

England 18.3%

Households owning their home
55%

England 62.7%

Households in social housing
33%

England 17%

Households with no car
26%

England 21.9%

Adults economically inactive
41%

England 39.9%

School details

Type
Academy sponsor led
Phase
Secondary
Ages
Ages 11–18
Gender
Mixed
Admissions
Non-selective
Religious character
None
Sixth form
Yes
Nursery
No
Boarding
Day school
Trust
OUTWOOD GRANGE ACADEMIES TRUST
Headteacher
Headteacher: Vicky Gray
Local authority
Doncaster
Ward
Adwick le Street & Carcroft
Constituency
Doncaster North
URN
135963

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Nearest secondary schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Distance
Don Valley AcademyAcademy converter Good 2024 48 1.6 mi
Ridgewood SchoolAcademy converter Good 2022 49.5 2 mi
Campsmount AcademyAcademy converter Good 2023 41.5 4 mi
Hall Cross AcademyAcademy converter Good 2023 47.8 4.1 mi
Doncaster UTCUniversity technical college Good 2022 48.6 4.1 mi
Minsthorpe Community CollegeAcademy converter Good 2023 41.3 4.8 mi
XP SchoolFree schools Good 2023 39.8 4.8 mi
XP EastFree schools Requires improvement 2024 36.9 4.8 mi

Schools with a similar intake

State-funded secondary schools nationally whose share of disadvantaged pupils is closest to this school's. This is the fairest like-for-like comparison the published data supports.

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8
Whittington Green SchoolCommunity school Good 2023 40.8
Headlands SchoolCommunity school Good 2021 39.6
Robert Blake SchoolFoundation school Requires improvement 2023 42.9
Leigh Academy StroodAcademy sponsor led Good 2021 41.2
The Halifax AcademyAcademy converter Good 2023 44.1
St Antony's Roman Catholic School, a Voluntary AcademyAcademy sponsor led Requires improvement 2024 42.4
Friern Barnet SchoolCommunity school Good 2024 44.8
Belmont Community SchoolCommunity school Good 2024 53.4

Where these figures come from

  • School details, address and pupil numbers — Get Information About Schools, the DfE register, as at 14 August 2026.
  • Exam results — DfE performance tables, 2024/25, and 2023/24 for Progress 8.
  • Free school meals, EAL and SEN — school census, 2024/25.
  • Ofsted — Ofsted management information, latest inspections as at 30 June 2026.
  • Neighbourhood figures — ONS Census 2021, lower layer super output area.

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