United Kingdom / Regions / Wakefield
Wakefield
Yorkshire and The Humber, England · population ~352k · 140 state-funded schools
Median full-time pay
ONS ASHE residence basis · 2025
Median house price
ONS HPSSA-9 · Year ending Sep 2025
Median monthly rent
ONS PIPR · 2026-03
Council tax (Band D)
MHCLG / Welsh Gov · 2026-27
Crime per 1,000
ONS PFA · Year ending Dec 2025
IMD score
MHCLG IoD · 2019
Schools Good+ (legacy)
Legacy 1-4 grades only · Ofsted Feb 2026 snapshot
State-funded schools in Wakefield
140 schools listed by DfE GIAS, with current judgements from the Ofsted Feb 2026 Management Information snapshot. Among schools with a current legacy Ofsted 1-4 grade (112 of 140 here), 91.4% of pupils attend schools rated Good or Outstanding — combining full OEIF graded inspections and ungraded check-ins that confirmed the school remains at its last grade. A further 4 schools (2.9% of the LA) have been re-inspected under Ofsted's new post-Sept-2024 report-card framework; those judgements appear separately on each school's row below.
The Last inspection column shows the most recent activity per school — graded inspection, check-in, or new-framework report card. Ofsted retired the single 1-4 grade in September 2024; new inspections produce multi-axis "report card" judgements (Leadership, Achievement, Curriculum, Behaviour, Personal development, Inclusion, Safeguarding) that aren't directly comparable to the legacy 1-4. Where a school has both an older 1-4 grade and a fresh report card, the 1-4 is shown for continuity but the report-card sub-judgments below it are the current finding. The "·" mark next to a grade indicates the value came from an ungraded check confirming the school's last full grade still applies.
Showing 20 of 140 schools.
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Outwood Grange Academy | Secondary | 1,932 | Good | 01/05/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Ossett Academy and Sixth Form College | Secondary | 1,728 | Good | 15/11/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Kettlethorpe High School | Secondary | 1,672 | Good· | 15/06/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Minsthorpe Community College | Secondary | 1,575 | Good· | 08/11/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
St Wilfrid's Catholic High School & Sixth Form College: A Voluntary Academy | Secondary | 1,481 | Good· | 18/11/2021 | OfstedWebsite |
Castleford Academy | Secondary | 1,477 | Not graded | 28/01/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Outwood Academy Hemsworth | Secondary | 1,108 | Not graded | 04/03/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Horbury Academy | Secondary | 1,075 | Good | 06/01/2026 | OfstedWebsite |
Airedale Academy | Secondary | 1,063 | Requires Improvement | 30/01/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Crofton Academy | Secondary | 1,059 | Good | 11/07/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
The King's School | Secondary | 1,038 | Good | 12/10/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Trinity Academy Cathedral | Secondary | 1,037 | Outstanding | 25/05/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
Carleton High School | Secondary | 1,021 | Not graded | 06/11/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Outwood Academy Freeston | Secondary | 988 | Not graded | 20/05/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
Outwood Academy City Fields | Secondary | 900 | Good | 01/03/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
De Lacy Academy | Secondary | 869 | Outstanding | 05/04/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
St Thomas � Becket Catholic Secondary School, A Voluntary Academy | Secondary | 763 | Good | 29/03/2023 | OfstedWebsite |
Wakefield Snapethorpe Primary School | Primary | 644 | Requires Improvement | 25/06/2024 | OfstedWebsite |
Sandal Castle VA Community Primary School | Primary | 618 | Good· | 07/01/2025 | OfstedWebsite |
The Featherstone Academy | Secondary | 524 | Good· | 24/03/2022 | OfstedWebsite |
How we sourced this
Indicators: Pay (ONS ASHE residence), house price (ONS HPSSA-9 median for England + Wales, UK HPI mean for Scotland), rent (ONS PIPR newly-signed lets for E+W, Scot Gov 2-bed advertised median for Scotland), council tax (MHCLG England + Welsh Gov Wales), crime (ONS PFA, E+W only), IMD (MHCLG IoD 2019, England only), school quality (Ofsted % of pupils in schools currently rated under the legacy 1-4 framework as Good or Outstanding, combining full OEIF grades with ungraded check-ins — England only. Schools re-inspected under Ofsted's new post-Sept-2024 report-card framework are excludedfrom this denominator and shown separately on each school's row).
Schools: joined from DfE GIAS edubasealldata snapshot (2026-05-13, the canonical UK school registry) with Ofsted's Management Information snapshot (Feb 2026, current grades and pupil counts). Coordinates converted from OSGB36 (British National Grid) to WGS84 using the standard Helmert 7-parameter transformation.
Editorial position: we surface the uncomfortable facts (knife crime per 1,000, IMD deprivation, Band D bills) alongside the affordability story. No estate-agent gloss. Where methodologies differ across UK nations (rents, deprivation, council tax) we disclose the difference rather than silently merging.
Some indicators show "—" for Scotland / Wales / Northern Ireland because each nation publishes equivalents on a different methodology that explicitly cannot be cross-compared per official guidance.