Outwood Primary Academy Newstead Green
General Information
- Address: Cow Lane, Wakefield, WF4 2BE – View on map
- Phone: 01226722484
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mrs Lindsey Corbett
- Age range: 3-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 19 families put it first for 19 places – 10 for every 10 places. Every one of them was offered a place. No places went to families living outside the council area. Children putting it first, for every 10 places: 2023 10 · 2024 10 · 2025 9 · 2026 10
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: None
- Nursery provision: Yes
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 89
- % eligible for free school meals: 41.6%
- Pupil mix: 3 in 10 (similar to the Wakefield average)
- English as an additional language: 5% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 25.2% a year (Wakefield 16.5%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 61% moved to another school, 39% left state schools altogether (retirement, other careers, independent schools, abroad)
- Data years: 2022/23 to 2024/25 (average of 3 years, DfE school workforce census)
Teachers who moved school or left state schools in the year after each November, as a share of all the school's teachers. Some turnover is healthy – retirements, promotions, moving house. This is a small staff, so one or two teachers leaving moves the figure a lot.
Behaviour
Awaiting Data
Across Wakefield: suspensions by reason
- Suspensions for sexual misconduct: 9 (0.3 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Permanent exclusions for sexual misconduct: 0
- Suspensions for bullying: 5 (0.2 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Suspensions for abuse against sexual orientation or gender identity: 2 (0.1 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.0)
- Data year: 2024/25 (DfE suspensions and exclusions statistics)
These are figures for all state primary schools in Wakefield, not this school's own – the government doesn't publish them school by school. A suspension can have up to three reasons. Most sexual harassment between pupils never leads to a suspension, so these figures show only part of the picture.
Attendance
- Overall absence: 6.1%
- Persistently absent pupils: 15.6%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 15.8%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 7.2%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Speech, language and communications needs: 21 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 11 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 2 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 1 pupil
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 6 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 5 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 2 pupils
- Physical disability: 2 pupils
- Hearing impairment: 1 pupil
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
Good 2022 report
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 71% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 8% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 8 percentage points above the Wakefield average (63%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: Above (3-year average 64% against an expected 57%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 64%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 71% · Writing 71% · Maths 75% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 67%
- Average test scores: reading 104, maths 106
- Based on: 24 Year 6 pupils, 2024/25
View the School Context Comparator – how this school's SATs results compare with schools teaching similar pupils.
SATs results over time
Year 6 SATs: joint 36th of 98 junior and primary schools in the area
- =36Crigglestone Mackie Hill Junior and Infant School71%
- =36Featherstone All Saints CofE Academy71%
- =36Outwood Primary Academy Newstead Green71%
- =36Walton Primary Academy71%
- #40Crofton Junior School70%
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36th of 75 primary schools in Wakefield for Ofsted rating
- #34Ossett South Parade PrimaryGood
- #35Outwood Primary Academy Bell LaneGood
- #36Outwood Primary Academy Newstead GreenGood
- #37Outwood Primary Academy Park HillGood
- #38Rooks Nest AcademyGood
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £6,921 (2024-25)
18th of 92 primary schools in Wakefield for spending per pupil
- #16Holy Family and St Michael's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy£6,995
- #17The Mount Junior Infant & Nursery School£6,941
- #18Outwood Primary Academy Newstead Green£6,921
- #19Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School£6,881
- #20St Botolphs CE Academy£6,854
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