Outwood Academy Ormesby
- Secondary
- Academy converter
- Ages 11 to 16
URN 138711 · Middlesbrough · OUTWOOD GRANGE ACADEMIES TRUST
Inspection
Ofsted management information, as at 30 September 2026.
Latest report card inspection
9 December 2025- Inclusion
- Expected standard
- Curriculum and teaching
- Needs attention
- Achievement
- Needs attention
- Attendance and behaviour
- Needs attention
- Personal development and wellbeing
- Expected standard
- Leadership and governance
- Expected standard
- Safeguarding standards
- Met
Serious Weaknesses S5 Reinspection
Report cards, used from 10 November 2025, grade each area on a five-point scale and give no overall grade. Safeguarding is met or not met.
Earlier inspection, different framework
Earlier graded inspection
5 July 2022Overall effectiveness
Inadequate
Ofsted category: Serious weaknesses.
- Quality of education
- Requires improvement
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Inadequate
- Personal development
- Requires improvement
- Leadership and management
- Requires improvement
- Safeguarding is effective
- Yes
Section 8 inspection of good and outstanding schools
Under the earlier framework, inspections gave an overall effectiveness grade.
Read the reports on Ofsted’s website. Source: Ofsted, State-funded school inspections and outcomes: management information.
Attendance
Against Middlesbrough and England, secondary schools.
Overall absence
2024/2515.3%
- Middlesbrough
- 10.3%
- England
- 8.4%
6.9 percentage points higher than England.
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| Year | This school | Middlesbrough | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017/18 | 9.6% | 7.0% | 5.5% |
| 2018/19 | 10.5% | 7.2% | 5.5% |
| 2020/21 | 13.2% | 8.0% | 5.5% |
| 2021/22 | 16.2% | 11.4% | 9.0% |
| 2022/23 | 18.9% | 12.2% | 9.0% |
| 2023/24 | 19.5% | 11.6% | 8.9% |
| 2024/25 | 15.3% | 10.3% | 8.4% |
Sessions missed for any reason, as a share of all possible sessions in the school year. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, Pupil absence in schools in England, 2024/25.
Persistent absence
2024/2544.5%
- Middlesbrough
- 30.0%
- England
- 23.4%
21.1 percentage points higher than England.
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| Year | This school | Middlesbrough | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017/18 | 33.2% | 20.9% | 13.9% |
| 2018/19 | 33.2% | 21.8% | 13.7% |
| 2020/21 | 41.4% | 24.2% | 14.8% |
| 2021/22 | 50.4% | 36.9% | 27.7% |
| 2022/23 | 51.5% | 36.3% | 26.5% |
| 2023/24 | 52.1% | 33.9% | 25.6% |
| 2024/25 | 44.5% | 30.0% | 23.4% |
Pupils who missed 10% or more of their possible sessions, as a share of pupils. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, Pupil absence in schools in England, 2024/25.
Severe absence
2024/2511.4%
- Middlesbrough
- 5.8%
- England
- 3.9%
7.5 percentage points higher than England.
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| Year | This school | Middlesbrough | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017/18 | 3.0% | 2.1% | 1.2% |
| 2018/19 | 4.9% | 2.7% | 1.3% |
| 2020/21 | 6.0% | 3.1% | 1.5% |
| 2021/22 | 9.3% | 4.8% | 2.7% |
| 2022/23 | 12.9% | 6.5% | 3.4% |
| 2023/24 | 14.6% | 6.3% | 3.8% |
| 2024/25 | 11.4% | 5.8% | 3.9% |
Pupils who missed 50% or more of their possible sessions, as a share of pupils. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, Pupil absence in schools in England, 2024/25.
Suspensions and permanent exclusions
Against Middlesbrough and England, secondary schools.
Suspensions per 100 pupils
2024/25197.56
- Middlesbrough
- 58.41
- England
- 21.24
176.32 higher than England.
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| Year | This school | Middlesbrough | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017/18 | 304.39 | 49.08 | 10.13 |
| 2018/19 | 214.66 | 46.63 | 10.75 |
| 2019/20 | 115.61 | 32.83 | 7.43 |
| 2020/21 | 52.10 | 36.64 | 8.48 |
| 2021/22 | 202.26 | 75.28 | 13.96 |
| 2022/23 | 202.93 | 76.47 | 18.90 |
| 2023/24 | 282.77 | 79.92 | 22.61 |
| 2024/25 | 197.56 | 58.41 | 21.24 |
Suspensions in the school year for every 100 pupils on roll. One pupil can be suspended more than once. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England, 2024/25.
Permanent exclusions per 100 pupils
2024/251.49
- Middlesbrough
- 0.75
- England
- 0.23
1.26 higher than England.
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| Year | This school | Middlesbrough | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017/18 | 1.92 | 0.48 | 0.20 |
| 2018/19 | 1.72 | 0.50 | 0.20 |
| 2019/20 | 1.16 | 0.34 | 0.13 |
| 2020/21 | 0.44 | 0.33 | 0.10 |
| 2021/22 | 0.32 | 0.51 | 0.16 |
| 2022/23 | 1.95 | 0.80 | 0.22 |
| 2023/24 | 3.26 | 1.12 | 0.25 |
| 2024/25 | 1.49 | 0.75 | 0.23 |
Permanent exclusions in the school year for every 100 pupils on roll. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England, 2024/25.
Key stage 4 results
Against Middlesbrough and England, secondary schools.
Attainment 8
2025/26 (provisional)36.1
- Middlesbrough
- 42.3
- England
- 47.4
11.3 lower than England.
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| Year | This school | Middlesbrough | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021/22 | Not published | 44.3 | 49.8 |
| 2022/23 | Not published | 41.0 | 47.2 |
| 2023/24 | 31.3 | 40.7 | 46.9 |
| 2024/25 | 33.1 | 42.2 | 47.1 |
| 2025/26 (provisional) | 36.1 | 42.3 | 47.4 |
The average of pupils' points across eight GCSE-level qualifications, with English and maths counted twice. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, Key stage 4 performance, 2025/26.
English and maths: grade 4 or above
2025/26 (provisional)48%
- Middlesbrough
- 59%
- England
- 66%
18 percentage points lower than England.
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| Year | This school | Middlesbrough | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021/22 | Not published | 62% | 70% |
| 2022/23 | Not published | 58% | 67% |
| 2023/24 | 43% | 57% | 67% |
| 2024/25 | 50% | 59% | 66% |
| 2025/26 (provisional) | 48% | 59% | 66% |
Pupils at the end of key stage 4 with grade 4 or above in both English and maths. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, Key stage 4 performance, 2025/26.
English and maths: grade 5 or above
2025/26 (provisional)32%
- Middlesbrough
- 39%
- England
- 48%
16 percentage points lower than England.
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| Year | This school | Middlesbrough | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021/22 | Not published | 40% | 51% |
| 2022/23 | Not published | 35% | 46% |
| 2023/24 | 27% | 37% | 47% |
| 2024/25 | 30% | 38% | 47% |
| 2025/26 (provisional) | 32% | 39% | 48% |
Pupils at the end of key stage 4 with grade 5 or above in both English and maths. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, Key stage 4 performance, 2025/26.
Pupils
Against Middlesbrough and England, secondary schools.
Eligible for free school meals
2024/2563.3%
- Middlesbrough
- 46.8%
- England
- 25.8%
37.5 percentage points higher than England.
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| Year | This school | Middlesbrough | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021/22 | 53.9% | 39.1% | 20.9% |
| 2022/23 | 57.5% | 41.7% | 22.7% |
| 2023/24 | 58.2% | 43.4% | 24.1% |
| 2024/25 | 63.3% | 46.8% | 25.8% |
Pupils known to be eligible for free school meals on census day in January. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, Schools, pupils and their characteristics, 2024/25.
SEN support
2024/2520.9%
- Middlesbrough
- 17.4%
- England
- 13.4%
7.5 percentage points higher than England.
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| Year | This school | Middlesbrough | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021/22 | 21.6% | 16.9% | 11.9% |
| 2022/23 | 20.9% | 17.1% | 12.4% |
| 2023/24 | 21.2% | 17.4% | 12.9% |
| 2024/25 | 20.9% | 17.4% | 13.4% |
Pupils receiving special educational needs support without an education, health and care plan. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, Schools, pupils and their characteristics, 2024/25.
Education, health and care plan
2024/252.7%
- Middlesbrough
- 3.6%
- England
- 3.1%
0.4 percentage points lower than England.
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| Year | This school | Middlesbrough | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021/22 | 1.9% | 2.3% | 2.2% |
| 2022/23 | 1.8% | 2.7% | 2.4% |
| 2023/24 | 2.6% | 3.2% | 2.7% |
| 2024/25 | 2.7% | 3.6% | 3.1% |
Pupils with an education, health and care plan. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, Schools, pupils and their characteristics, 2024/25.
First language other than English
2024/254.7%
- Middlesbrough
- 16.7%
- England
- 19.2%
14.5 percentage points lower than England.
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| Year | This school | Middlesbrough | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021/22 | 5.5% | 13.9% | 17.5% |
| 2022/23 | 5.0% | 14.4% | 18.1% |
| 2023/24 | 5.4% | 15.2% | 18.6% |
| 2024/25 | 4.7% | 16.7% | 19.2% |
Pupils whose first language is known or believed to be other than English. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, Schools, pupils and their characteristics, 2024/25.
Teachers
Against Middlesbrough and England, secondary schools.
Pupils per qualified teacher
2025/2615.3
- Middlesbrough
- 16.3
- England
- 17.3
2.0 lower than England.
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| Year | This school | Middlesbrough | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017/18 | 19.6 | 16.4 | 16.5 |
| 2018/19 | 20.7 | 16.0 | 16.8 |
| 2019/20 | 21.5 | 15.7 | 17.2 |
| 2020/21 | 21.1 | 16.0 | 17.1 |
| 2021/22 | 17.6 | 15.9 | 17.1 |
| 2022/23 | 19.8 | 16.9 | 17.2 |
| 2023/24 | 15.7 | 16.8 | 17.4 |
| 2024/25 | 14.1 | 16.3 | 17.3 |
| 2025/26 | 15.3 | 16.3 | 17.3 |
Full-time equivalent pupils for each full-time equivalent qualified teacher. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, School workforce in England, 2025/26.
Teacher sickness absence
2024/256.4 days
- Middlesbrough
- 5.0 days
- England
- 5.0 days
1.4 days higher than England.
Compared with all state-funded schools: DfE publishes this measure for all schools, not by phase.
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| Year | This school | Middlesbrough | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017/18 | Not published | 3.2 days | 4.0 days |
| 2018/19 | 6.5 days | 4.6 days | 4.0 days |
| 2019/20 | Not published | Not published | Not published |
| 2020/21 | 3.5 days | 4.1 days | 3.9 days |
| 2021/22 | 1.3 days | 7.4 days | 6.3 days |
| 2022/23 | 6.6 days | 5.4 days | 5.2 days |
| 2023/24 | 6.8 days | 5.8 days | 5.3 days |
| 2024/25 | 6.4 days | 5.0 days | 5.0 days |
Days lost to sickness absence in the school year, averaged across all teachers. Source: Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics, School workforce in England, 2024/25.
Finance
Academies report their accounts as part of their trust, so DfE publishes no school-level balance for this school. The trust’s figures are in DfE’s Financial Benchmarking and Insights Tool.
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About the school
- Pupils on roll
- 698
- Capacity
- 825
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Sixth form
- Does not have a sixth form
- Admissions
- Non-selective
- Gender
- Mixed
- Trust
- OUTWOOD GRANGE ACADEMIES TRUST
- Opened
- 1 September 2012
- Setting
- Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
- Constituency
- Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland
- Special educational needs provision
- SLCN - Speech, language and Communication
- Resourced provision
- Resourced provision
- Deprivation of the area (IDACI)
- Decile 1 of 10 (1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods)
Address: Tothill Avenue, Netherfields, Middlesbrough, Cleveland, TS3 0RH
Website: www.ormesby.outwood.com
Telephone: 01642452191
Sources and corrections
Every figure on this page names its source and period. This release was built on 20 October 2026.
- Department for Education: Get Information about Schools: establishment data (GIAS establishment extract 2026-10-20)
- Ofsted: State-funded school inspections and outcomes: management information (Latest inspections as at 2026-09-30; All inspections, 2018/19; All inspections, 2019/20; All inspections, 2020/21; All inspections, 2021/22; All inspections, 2022/23; All inspections, 2023/24; All inspections, 2024/25; All inspections, 2025/26)
- Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics: Pupil absence in schools in England (absence-3term-school, 2013/14 to 2024/25 [pinned data set id])
- Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics: Suspensions and permanent exclusions in England (exc-school, 2006/07 to 2024/25 [pinned data set id]; exc-ap-school, 2013/14 to 2024/25 [pinned data set id]; exc-geography, 2006/07 to 2024/25 [pinned data set id]; exc-ap-geography, 2013/14 to 2024/25 [pinned data set id])
- Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics: Key stage 2 attainment (ks2-school, 2022/23 to 2024/25 [pinned data set id]; ks2-geography, 2015/16 to 2025/26 [pinned data set id])
- Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics: Key stage 4 performance (ks4-school, 2023/24 to 2025/26 [pinned data set id]; ks4-geography, 2018/19 to 2025/26 [pinned data set id])
- Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics: Schools, pupils and their characteristics (School census, January 2022 (performance tables, 2021 to 2022); School census, January 2023 (performance tables, 2022 to 2023); School census, January 2024 (performance tables, 2023 to 2024); School census, January 2025 (performance tables, 2024 to 2025))
- Department for Education, Explore Education Statistics: School workforce in England (ptr-school, 2010/11 to 2025/26 [pinned data set id]; ptr-geography, 2010/11 to 2025/26 [pinned data set id]; sickness-school, 2009/10 to 2024/25 [pinned data set id]; sickness-geography, 2009/10 to 2024/25 [pinned data set id])
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: English indices of deprivation 2025: Income Deprivation Affecting Children Index (English indices of deprivation 2025, File 7 (2021 LSOAs))
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