Springwell Harrogate
- Alternative provision
- Academy alternative provision converter
- Ages 11 to 16
URN 140077 · North Yorkshire · WELLSPRING ACADEMY TRUST
Inspection
Ofsted management information, as at 30 September 2026.
Latest report card inspection
9 June 2026- Inclusion
- Expected standard
- Curriculum and teaching
- Expected standard
- Achievement
- Expected standard
- Attendance and behaviour
- Expected standard
- Personal development and wellbeing
- Expected standard
- Leadership and governance
- Expected standard
- Safeguarding standards
- Met
Full inspection (section 5)
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
26 April 2022Overall effectiveness
Good
- Quality of education
- Good
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Good
- Personal development
- Good
- Leadership and management
- Good
- Safeguarding is effective
- Yes
Full inspection (section 5)
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.
Suspensions and permanent exclusions
Against North Yorkshire and England, alternative provision.
Suspensions per 100 pupils
2024/2516.67
- North Yorkshire
- 328.57
- England
- 248.42
231.75 lower than England.
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| Year | This school | North Yorkshire | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017/18 | 5.26 | Not published | 158.40 |
| 2018/19 | 50.00 | Not published | 191.09 |
| 2019/20 | 85.19 | Not published | 141.01 |
| 2020/21 | 11.11 | Not published | 139.24 |
| 2021/22 | 18.18 | Not published | 257.87 |
| 2022/23 | 28.57 | Not published | 284.98 |
| 2023/24 | 15.79 | 285.71 | 253.49 |
| 2024/25 | 16.67 | 328.57 | 248.42 |
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
2024/250.00
- North Yorkshire
- 0.00
- England
- 0.30
0.30 lower than England.
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| Year | This school | North Yorkshire | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017/18 | 5.26 | Not published | 0.16 |
| 2018/19 | 0.00 | Not published | 0.22 |
| 2019/20 | 0.00 | Not published | 0.11 |
| 2020/21 | 0.00 | Not published | 0.13 |
| 2021/22 | 0.00 | Not published | 0.22 |
| 2022/23 | 0.00 | Not published | 0.34 |
| 2023/24 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.25 |
| 2024/25 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.30 |
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.
Pupils
Against North Yorkshire and England, alternative provision.
Eligible for free school meals
2024/2561.1%
- North Yorkshire
- 73.8%
- England
- 63.2%
2.1 percentage points lower than England.
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| Year | This school | North Yorkshire | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 42.9% | 46.7% | 57.8% |
| 2023/24 | 47.4% | 55.7% | 60.7% |
| 2024/25 | 61.1% | 73.8% | 63.2% |
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
2024/2572.2%
- North Yorkshire
- 59.5%
- England
- 57.1%
15.1 percentage points higher than England.
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| Year | This school | North Yorkshire | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 85.7% | 71.1% | 57.0% |
| 2023/24 | 84.2% | 64.3% | 58.1% |
| 2024/25 | 72.2% | 59.5% | 57.1% |
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
2024/2527.8%
- North Yorkshire
- 21.4%
- England
- 26.3%
1.5 percentage points higher than England.
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| Year | This school | North Yorkshire | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 14.3% | 11.1% | 25.5% |
| 2023/24 | 15.8% | 15.7% | 24.2% |
| 2024/25 | 27.8% | 21.4% | 26.3% |
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
2024/255.6%
- North Yorkshire
- 7.1%
- England
- 7.6%
2.0 percentage points lower than England.
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| Year | This school | North Yorkshire | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022/23 | 0.0% | 2.2% | 8.0% |
| 2023/24 | 0.0% | 2.9% | 7.8% |
| 2024/25 | 5.6% | 7.1% | 7.6% |
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 North Yorkshire and England, alternative provision.
Pupils per qualified teacher
2025/268.9
- North Yorkshire
- 8.0
- England
- 7.3
1.6 higher than England.
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| Year | This school | North Yorkshire | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017/18 | 2.0 | Not published | 6.7 |
| 2018/19 | 3.4 | Not published | 6.8 |
| 2019/20 | 3.2 | Not published | 7.0 |
| 2020/21 | 1.8 | Not published | 6.8 |
| 2021/22 | 8.0 | Not published | 6.9 |
| 2022/23 | 5.8 | Not published | 7.0 |
| 2023/24 | 7.1 | 7.4 | 7.1 |
| 2024/25 | 9.3 | 7.8 | 7.3 |
| 2025/26 | 8.9 | 8.0 | 7.3 |
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
2024/257.6 days
- North Yorkshire
- 5.9 days
- England
- 5.0 days
2.6 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 | North Yorkshire | England |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017/18 | 7.6 days | Not published | 4.0 days |
| 2018/19 | 3.1 days | Not published | 4.0 days |
| 2019/20 | Not published | Not published | Not published |
| 2020/21 | 0.3 days | Not published | 3.9 days |
| 2021/22 | Not published | Not published | 6.3 days |
| 2022/23 | Not published | 5.9 days | 5.2 days |
| 2023/24 | Not published | 6.3 days | 5.3 days |
| 2024/25 | 7.6 days | 5.9 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
- 23
- Capacity
- 30
- Type
- Academy alternative provision converter
- Phase
- Alternative provision
- Age range
- 11 to 16
- Gender
- Mixed
- Trust
- WELLSPRING ACADEMY TRUST
- Opened
- 1 September 2013
- Setting
- Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
- Constituency
- Harrogate and Knaresborough
- Deprivation of the area (IDACI)
- Decile 6 of 10 (1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods)
Address: 59 Grove Road, Harrogate, North Yorkshire, HG1 5EP
Website: www.swharrogate.org.uk
Telephone: 01423456001
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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