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Secondary school in Wakefield, Leeds

Rodillian Academy

Longthorpe Lane, Lofthouse, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, WF3 3PS

Sixth form
School website 01924872252

Ofsted

Standards maintained at the last ungraded inspection, on 5 February 2025.

Inspections since September 2024 do not give an overall grade, so there is no one-word judgement to report. The full report sets out what inspectors found.

Read the Ofsted report

GCSE results 2024/25

Attainment 8 score

46.4 England 47

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

Grade 5+ in English & maths

52% England 46.2%

Grade 4+ in English & maths

69% England 66.2%

EBacc average point score

4.3 England 4.2

Entered the EBacc

75% England 40.8%

On Attainment 8 this school is around the middle of state-funded secondaries in England.

Compared with the fifth of schools whose intake is second least disadvantaged, which is where this one sits, it is in the lower half.

Progress 8 2023/24

0.24confidence interval 0.08 to 0.40

Taking that range into account, pupils made more progress than similar pupils nationally. DfE bands this as above 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
C+
Average points per entry
34.4

England average 32.3

A level students
52

Pupils

Pupils on roll
1615
Places
1700
How full
Nearly full — 1615 of 1700 places taken
Girls / boys
788 / 827
Overall absence
8%

secondary schools average 8.6%

Persistently absent
18%

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

Free school meals, last 6 years
19%

England 25.7%

English as an additional language
7%

England 18.7%

With an EHC plan
2%

England 3.5%

On SEN support
15%

England 15%

What pupils do next

After GCSEs

In education, work or training
91%

England 91.4%

Stayed in education
86%

England 85.4%

Started an apprenticeship
3%

England 3.5%

Stayed at this school's sixth form
25%
No sustained destination
5%

England 5.8%

Pupils in the cohort
297

After sixth form

Went to university
47%

England 50%

In education, work or training
90%

England 84.3%

Started an apprenticeship
3%

England 6.5%

Students in the cohort
60

Going on to university 2021/22 leavers

Went to a top third university

17% 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
52%

England 65.3%

Students in the cohort
54

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 Leeds 105D, 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
23%

England 33.8%

Adults with no qualifications
25%

England 18.3%

Households owning their home
77%

England 62.7%

Households in social housing
12%

England 17%

Households with no car
16%

England 21.9%

Adults economically inactive
41%

England 39.9%

School details

Type
Academy converter
Phase
Secondary
Ages
Ages 11–18
Gender
Mixed
Admissions
Non-selective
Religious character
None
Sixth form
Yes
Nursery
No
Boarding
Day school
Trust
RESILIENCE MULTI ACADEMY TRUST
Headteacher
Executive Head: Joe Birkbeck
Local authority
Leeds
Ward
Ardsley & Robin Hood
Constituency
Leeds South West and Morley
URN
138336

The unique reference number used in all official school data.

Nearest secondary schools

SchoolOfstedAttainment 8Distance
Outwood Grange AcademyAcademy sponsor led Good 2024 47.2 1.6 mi
Oulton AcademyAcademy sponsor led Outstanding 2024 44.9 1.7 mi
Cockburn Laurence Calvert AcademyFree schools Good 2024 1.7 mi
Silcoates SchoolOther independent school No grade 2.8 mi
Cockburn John Charles AcademyAcademy sponsor led No grade 43.8 2.9 mi
Queen Elizabeth Grammar SchoolOther independent school No grade 2.9 mi
Wakefield Girls' High SchoolOther independent school No grade 3 mi
Outwood Academy City FieldsAcademy converter Good 2022 38.8 3.1 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
St Mary Redcliffe and Temple SchoolVoluntary aided school No grade 54.2
William de Ferrers SchoolAcademy converter No grade 44.1
St Edward's CollegeAcademy converter No grade 51.6
Studley High SchoolAcademy converter Outstanding 2024 45.9
Farlingaye High SchoolAcademy converter No grade 43.8
Mounts Bay AcademyAcademy converter No grade 43.7
Sir William Romney's SchoolAcademy converter No grade 44.1
Nunnery Wood High SchoolAcademy converter Good 2022 49.7

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.

All published under the Open Government Licence v3.0. If something here looks wrong, the school's own website is the authority on admissions and open days.