Secondary
Outwood Academy Carlton
Royston Lane, Carlton, Barnsley, S71 3EW
Key facts
- Phase
- Secondary
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Ages
- 11 to 16
- Intake
- Mixed
- Pupils
- 1109 of 1100 places
- Pupils per teacher
- 19.0
- Local authority
- Barnsley
- SEN provision
- SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty, VI - Visual Impairment, HI - Hearing Impairment, SLCN - Speech, language and Communication, ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder, SEMH - Social, Emotional and Mental Health, MSI - Multi-Sensory Impairment, PD - Physical Disability, MLD - Moderate Learning Difficulty, SLD - Severe Learning Difficulty, PMLD - Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulty
- Trust
- OUTWOOD GRANGE ACADEMIES TRUST
Staffing23/24
- Teachers (FTE)
- 58.5
- All staff (FTE)
- 97.7
- Pupils per adult
- 11.4
- Pupils
- 1,111
Staff are counted as full-time equivalents in the November school workforce census, so the pupil figure here is that census’s own and will differ a little from the roll above, which is counted in January.
Ofsted
Last inspected October 2024
Standards maintained
Still graded as at
Good
- Leadership and governanceGood
An ungraded inspection, which checks whether a school remains at its previous grade rather than re-grading it. Inspected under the previous framework, which used its own four-point scale. Ofsted now publishes a report card grading several areas separately, so these grades are not directly comparable with a recent inspection’s.
Read the full Ofsted report (opens in a new tab)GCSE results
40%
8 points below the Barnsley average (48% across 9 schools)
41.5
4.4 below the Barnsley average (45.9 across 9 schools)
7th of 9 by our score, among the secondary schools in Barnsley we can score - 11 in total, the rest without enough published data. Local and same-phase on purpose: a national table mostly measures who attends.
All published measures2024/2025
| Measure | Result |
|---|---|
| Attainment 8 | 41.5 |
| EBacc average point score | 3.57 |
| Entered the EBacc | 23% |
| Grade 4 or above in English and maths | 63% |
| Grade 5 or above in English and maths | 40% |
From the Department for Education. Measures are published per year and suppressed where a cohort is too small, so some schools show fewer. There are no results for 2019/20 or 2020/21, when exams and assessments were cancelled.
Results over time4 years
Each measure on its own scale, over every year we hold.
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 42% |
| 22/23 | 39% |
| 23/24 | 40% |
| 24/25 | 40% |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | -0.09 |
| 22/23 | -0.25 |
| 23/24 | -0.25 |
| Year | This school |
|---|---|
| 21/22 | 43.5 |
| 22/23 | 41.6 |
| 23/24 | 39.7 |
| 24/25 | 41.5 |
Royston Lane, Carlton, Barnsley, S71 3EW
Admissions
How to apply (opens in a new tab)
You apply through your council, not the school - even for academies and free schools. Applications close on 31 October, the year before starting.
Barnsley admissions (opens in a new tab)
The council publishes the oversubscription criteria and last year’s offer distances, which is the closest thing to knowing your chances.
If you are refused a place (opens in a new tab)
You can appeal, and you can join a waiting list at the same time. Accept whatever offer you get first - declining it can leave you with no place at all.
This school’s own admissions (opens in a new tab)
Schools that set their own criteria - faith schools, grammars, academies - publish them on their own site.
Contact
- Headteacher
- Paul Taylor
- Address
- Royston Lane, Carlton, Barnsley, S71 3EW
- Telephone
- 01226728494