The School Record

Published admissions and inspection figures for schools in England, from the DfE, Ofsted and local authorities.

Outwood Academy Acklam

URN 139823 · Secondary · Academy sponsor led · Middlesbrough

Hall Drive, Middlesbrough, TS5 7JY

How many families applied

Preferences expressed and offers made at Year 7, as published by the Department for Education. These describe demand. They do not indicate whether any particular child would be offered a place.

In the 2025 intake, 145 families named Outwood Academy Acklam as their first preference, and the school made 227 offers.

That is 0.64 first preferences per place offered, which places it above 12% of schools admitting at Year 7 in England that year.

More first preferences per place than 12% of comparable schools position among schools in England admitting at Year 7, 2025 intake

Little change. Across the 5 most recent years held, first preferences per place averaged 0.65 in 2021–2022 and 0.64 in 2024–2025.

Applications and offers at Year 7, 12 intake years
Intake 1st preferences All preferences Offers made 1st prefs per place
2025 145 688 227 0.64
2024 150 683 233 0.64
2023 117 680 260 0.45
2022 160 735 232 0.69
2021 145 737 237 0.61
2020 151 662 205 0.74
2019 195 644 209 0.93
2018 216 587 267 0.81
2017 194 525 261 0.74
2016 203 500 263 0.77
2015 133 380 262 0.51
2014 71 257 130 0.55

“Offers made” counts the offers the school made. It is not the number of places the school had, so please do not read it as one.

Ofsted

Ofsted changed its inspection framework: the current one publishes several graded areas and no single overall grade, while the previous one published an overall effectiveness grade. Each inspection below states which framework produced it.

Ofsted inspections from 2019 to 202520192025

Ofsted graded inspection (previous framework), 11 March 2025

Overall effectiveness: Not judged

Quality of education: Good

Behaviour and attitudes: Good

Personal development: Good

Leadership and management: Good

Early years: 9

Sixth form / post-16: 9

Ofsted's report for this school

Ofsted ungraded inspection, 3 October 2019

School remains Good

Ofsted's report for this school

Exam results

Published by the Department for Education for the whole year group. Figures for smaller cohorts are withheld by DfE to protect pupil privacy and appear here as a dash, not a zero.

Key stage 4 (GCSE)
YearAttainment 8Progress 8 Grade 4+ English & mathsEBacc grade 4+
2024/25 42.90 - 65.2% 10.8%
2023/24 41.30 -0.23
likely between -0.43 and -0.03		 61.8% 11.8%
2022/23 37.20 -0.61
likely between -0.79 and -0.42		 54.1% 16.7%

Progress 8 compares pupils here with pupils nationally who had similar results at the end of primary school; 0 is average. It is an estimate, and DfE publishes a range it is likely to fall within. Where that range spans zero, the school cannot be said to be above or below average.

Teachers staying and leaving

These come from the School Workforce Census, which follows each teacher into the next year. The numbers count full-time jobs, so a teacher who works half the week counts as half. They are not a count of people.

Census yearTeachers (FTE) Still there a year later Moved to another state school Left state schools Left in total
2024/25 66.7 56.3 3.8 6.6 15.6%
2023/24 65.0 51.8 6.6 6.6 20.3%
2022/23 65.2 43.8 12.0 9.4 32.8%
2021/22 63.1 37.5 12.6 13.0 40.6%
2020/21 67.4 51.8 6.0 9.6 23.1%
2019/20 73.0 58.2 8.8 6.0 20.3%

This is turnover among teachers. It says nothing about the headteacher or the senior leadership team: DfE publishes leadership retention separately and we do not hold it by school.

Catchment area

Nobody publishes a catchment area map for this school that we can read. That does not mean an address is outside its area. It means we hold no map, so we cannot tell you either way.

How places were allocated

Middlesbrough publishes these figures on national offer day, the day families are told which school their child has been given. It is the only place that says how the school chose between the children who applied.

2025 intake

Places the school planned to fill: 240

Places offered: 232

More children wanted a place than there were places: no

The rule that decided the last place: Distance - Late Application

The child who lived furthest away and still got in lived: 1.7 miles away (2742 m) (every child who applied got a place, so this is not a cut-off)

These distances are measured in a straight line across the map.

Where it is

The 6 nearest secondary schools we hold figures for, by straight-line distance from Outwood Academy Acklam.

Nearby and related

Where these figures come from

This page was made on 9 September 2026. "Retrieved" means the day we downloaded the data. It is not the day the data was written, so the figures can be about an earlier year. How we compare schools.