Outwood Academy Kirkby

Secondary · state · ages 11–16 · 523 pupils · NG17 7DH · OUTWOOD GRANGE ACADEMIES TRUST

GoodOfstedInspected May 2025

2.9%GCSE grades 8–9England median 9.6%

0.9Applications per placeFirst choices, Year 7 2026

36.1Attainment 8England median 45.8

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49.3% of pupils eligible for free school meals.

Ofsted: Quality of education: Good

GCSE results (2024/25)

% of GCSE grades at 8 or 92.9% (typical 9.6%)

% of GCSE grades at 7 or above8.6% (typical 19.5%)

Attainment 8 (average across 8 GCSE-level subjects)36.1 (typical 45.8)

% with grade 5 or above in English and maths33.7% (typical 43.9%)

% with grade 4 or above in English and maths47% (typical 65.8%)

83 pupils at the end of Year 11.

How hard is it to get in?

For Year 7 in September 2026, 65 families put it first for 75 places (0.9 first choices per place). 100% of the families who put it first got a place.

Entry	Places	First choices	Per place	First choices offered a place
Year 7, 2024	115	85	0.7	100%
Year 7, 2025	90	61	0.7	100%
Year 7, 2026	75	65	0.9	100%

Sports facilities on site

Sports hall (4 courts).

For the school's own use. Schools nearby with similar facilities

Money

£9,714spent per pupil (typical secondary £7,863)

79%of spending on staff, 51% on teachers

£775krevenue reserve (16.9% of a year's income)

−£741kdeficit in the year

Income £4.6m, spending £5.3m (September 2024 to August 2025, 549 pupils).

Run by Outwood Grange Academies Trust, a trust of 40 academies and 30,925 pupils. The trust holds reserves of £43.7m, 17% of its income. Its accounts at Companies House.

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About these figures

Typical means the median state-funded school in England. In the bars, the fill is this school and the black line is the typical school.
Progress 8 (how pupils did against similar pupils nationally) isn't published for 2024/25, because these pupils sat no tests at 11 during Covid.
GCSE tables: GCSE (9–1) full courses taken in 2024/25; subjects with 5 or more entries. Small entries swing a lot from year to year.
Applications per place are first choices. They are national offer day figures; places can change later through waiting lists and appeals.
Living nearby doesn't guarantee a place. Admissions are set by the council or the school, and rules such as catchment, siblings and faith decide who gets in: check its admissions policy and how far away the last places went in recent years.
Sports facilities, not results: there is no national data on schools' sporting success.
Spending per pupil mostly follows funding for deprivation, special needs and London weighting, so higher isn't the same as better. Small schools and sixth forms cost more per pupil.

Department for Education performance data 2024/25 and register of schools; Ofsted inspections to August 2026. Open Government Licence. Applications: DfE applications and offers. Contains data © Sport England (Active Places), matched to the school by name and postcode. Money: Department for Education academies accounts return, 2024-25; Open Government Licence.

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GCSE results (2024/25)

% of GCSE grades at 8 or 92.9% (typical 9.6%)

% of GCSE grades at 7 or above8.6% (typical 19.5%)

Attainment 8 (average across 8 GCSE-level subjects)36.1 (typical 45.8)

% with grade 5 or above in English and maths33.7% (typical 43.9%)

% with grade 4 or above in English and maths47% (typical 65.8%)

83 pupils at the end of Year 11.

GCSE grades by subject

Subject	Entries	Grades 8–9	England 8–9	Grades 7+	Grades 4+
Mathematics	81	2.5%	13%	8.6%	51.9%
English Language	81	2.5%	9.2%	8.6%	67.9%
English Literature	79	2.5%	9.9%	8.9%	63.3%
Geography	41	0%	13.6%	4.9%	41.5%
History	28	10.7%	15.2%	17.9%	46.4%
Art and Design	26	0%	13.2%	11.5%	65.4%
Physics	16	0%	29.4%	0%	6.3%
French	12	16.7%	18.1%	16.7%	91.7%
Music	11	0%	20.5%	0%	36.4%
Biology	6	0%	28.6%	0%	16.7%

Entry

Places

First choices

Per place

First choices offered a place

Year 7, 2024

115

0.7

100%

Year 7, 2025

0.7

100%

Year 7, 2026

0.9

100%

Money

£9,714spent per pupil (typical secondary £7,863)

79%of spending on staff, 51% on teachers

£775krevenue reserve (16.9% of a year's income)

−£741kdeficit in the year

Income £4.6m, spending £5.3m (September 2024 to August 2025, 549 pupils).

Run by Outwood Grange Academies Trust, a trust of 40 academies and 30,925 pupils. The trust holds reserves of £43.7m, 17% of its income. Its accounts at Companies House.