Airedale Academy
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79% stayed in education · Attainment 8 33.8
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Outwood Academy City Fields
- Pupils on roll
- 928of 1,050 places
- Free school meals
- 38.8%
- Year 11 cohort 2025
- 143
- Ofsted
- Good, 1 March 2022Read the Ofsted report
Results below include those reported under the school’s previous registration: Wakefield City High School - A Specialist Maths and Computing College (URN 108272, until 1 January 2011).
What the data says
Outwood Academy City Fields has no sixth form. Of the 141 pupils who finished Year 11 there in 2023, 21% moved to a sixth form college, 55% to a further education college and 1% started an apprenticeship.
11% of leavers were not in sustained education, employment or training six months on, compared with 6% nationally.
GCSE results in 2025 were below the national picture: Attainment 8 of 38.8 against 46.1 across England and 45.1 in Wakefield, with 29% of pupils getting grade 5 or above in both English and maths (England 45%).
Religious Studies is unusually popular at GCSE: 90% of the year group took it, against 31% of pupils across England.
Where pupils went after Year 11
Destinations of the 2023 Year 11 leavers, measured the following year: the share in a sustained place for at least two terms. Compared with all state-funded schools in Wakefield and England.
School sixth formSixth form collegeFurther education collegeOther educationApprenticeshipEmploymentNo sustained destination
| Measure | Outwood Academy City Fields | Wakefield | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pupils in the cohort | 141 | 3,844 | 607,348 |
| Any sustained destination | 84% | 89% | 92% |
| Stayed in education | 80% | 82% | 86% |
| — school sixth form | 3% | 12% | 34% |
| — sixth form college | 21% | 28% | 13% |
| — further education college | 55% | 41% | 37% |
| — other education | 1% | 2% | 2% |
| Apprenticeship | 1% | 4% | 3% |
| Employment | 2% | 3% | 3% |
| No sustained destination | 11% | 8% | 6% |
| Destination unknown | 6% | 3% | 3% |
GCSE results 2025
| Measure | Outwood Academy City Fields | Wakefield | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Attainment 8 (average points per pupil) | 38.8 | 45.1 | 46.1 |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 29% | 46% | 45% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 55% | 65% | 65% |
| Entered the English Baccalaureate subjects | 40% | 33% | 41% |
| EBacc average point score | 3.51 | 3.95 | 4.09 |
| Disadvantaged pupils in the cohort | 41% | 28% | 28% |
| Attainment 8 — disadvantaged pupils | 31.9 | 33.4 | 34.9 |
| Attainment 8 — other pupils | 43.7 | 49.6 | 50.4 |
| Pupils with high prior attainment (Key Stage 2) | — | — | — |
| English as an additional language | 57% | 12% | 19% |
Progress 8 is not available for 2025 and 2026: these cohorts had no Key Stage 2 tests in 2020 and 2021, so there is no baseline. Attainment 8 shows results without taking pupils’ starting points into account.
Subjects taken at GCSE
Entries in 2025 as a share of the Year 11 cohort, and the share of entries graded 7–9 and 4–9, compared with all entries in England.
| Subject | Entries | Share of cohort | England | Grades 7–9 | England | Grades 4–9 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mathematics | 142 | 99% | 88% | 7% | 22% | 61% |
| English Language | 139 | 97% | 89% | 8% | 20% | 63% |
| English Literature | 138 | 97% | 86% | 9% | 21% | 66% |
| Religious Studies | 128 | 90% | 31% | 12% | 32% | 44% |
| Combined Science | 107 | 75% | 65% | 3% | 9% | 43% |
| Geography | 83 | 58% | 41% | 6% | 25% | 53% |
| History | 46 | 32% | 41% | 17% | 26% | 39% |
| Physics | 34 | 24% | 23% | 26% | 46% | 47% |
| French | 30 | 21% | 18% | 17% | 29% | 77% |
| Art and Design | 23 | 16% | 7% | 9% | 24% | 61% |
| Urdu | 18 | 13% | 1% | 50% | 42% | 100% |
| Biology | 17 | 12% | 23% | 82% | 45% | 94% |
| Chemistry | 16 | 11% | 23% | 63% | 47% | 100% |
| Polish | 8 | 6% | 1% | 63% | 84% | 88% |
| Computer Science | 6 | 4% | 13% | 50% | 30% | 83% |
| Arabic | 6 | 4% | 1% | 67% | 47% | 83% |
| Spanish | 5 | 3% | 19% | — | 27% | — |
| Russian | 2 | 1% | 0% | — | 87% | — |
Technical awards and other Key Stage 4 qualifications
| Subject | Entries | Share of cohort | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finance / Accounting (General) | 59 | — | — |
| Health Studies | 23 | — | — |
| Sports Studies | 22 | — | — |
| Hospitality / Catering Studies | 21 | — | — |
| Engineering Studies | 21 | — | — |
| Music performance: Group | 6 | — | — |
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Sources: Department for Education school and college performance tables 2024/2025 (Key Stage 4 and 16–18 results, subject entries, destination measures for 2023 leavers); Get Information About Schools register as at 19 September 2026; Ofsted management information as at 31 August 2026. Small numbers are suppressed by DfE and shown as “—”. How to read these figures.