Outwood Academy Redcar, Redcar

Ofsted's report card from its 16 June 2026 inspection grades Outwood Academy Redcar on 6 areas: 2 expected standard and 4 needs attention. Report cards replaced single-word judgements in November 2025, on a five-point scale from exceptional to urgent improvement.

Inclusion - Expected standard. "Leaders want all pupils to succeed."

Personal development and wellbeing - Expected standard. "Pupils benefit from a wide range of experiences beyond the classroom."

Achievement - Needs attention. "Historically, pupils have not achieved as well as they could in national examinations, such as GCSEs."

Attendance and behaviour - Needs attention. "Over time, pupils have not attended school regularly and often enough."

Curriculum and teaching - Needs attention. "The curriculum is carefully planned and sequenced in all subjects."

Leadership and governance - Needs attention. "This is a school that has undergone some turbulence in leadership."

Safeguarding standards were met.

Ofsted's next steps for the school: "Leaders should ensure that checks on pupils' learning are used to consistent effect to identify gaps in their understanding. Leaders should ensure that staff help to close these gaps so that pupils' attainment improves markedly"; "Leaders should ensure that rates of attendance increase and the number of pupils that are persistently or severely absent decreases"; "Leaders should ensure that teachers and other staff members implement behaviour policies consistently, thereby decreasing the number of incidents that lead to suspensions"; "Those responsible for governance should ensure that stable leadership ensures that improvements continue at their current rate and have the desired impact".

In 2026, pupils at Outwood Academy Redcar averaged an Attainment 8 score of 39.8, the average grade across their best eight GCSEs. The average state school scored 44.5 in Redcar and Cleveland and 47 across England.

42% passed English and maths at grade 5 or above, against 46% in Redcar and Cleveland and 47% in England.

That is up from 37.3 in 2025.

Its most recent Progress 8 score, for 2024, was -1.02: pupils made well below average progress compared with pupils nationally who started secondary school at the same level. Progress 8 was not published for 2026.

Disadvantaged pupils averaged an Attainment 8 of 35.2, against 46.1 for other pupils at the school - a gap of 10.9 points.

Pupils sat GCSEs in 21 subjects; after English and maths, the most popular were Combined Science, Geography and History.

For September 2026 entry, 117 families put Outwood Academy Redcar as their first choice and 175 named it as one of their preferences, for 136 places offered. It had fewer first-choice applications than places. Every family who put it first was offered a place there for 2026 entry.

The nearest other state secondary schools to Outwood Academy Redcar are Sacred Heart Catholic Secondary (0.5 miles, Good, Attainment 8 47.5); Rye Hills Academy (0.9 miles, Good, Attainment 8 51.2); Outwood Academy Bydales (2.4 miles, Outstanding, Attainment 8 50.4); and St Peter's Catholic College (4.2 miles, Good, Attainment 8 38.6).

Outwood Academy Redcar's 2026 results were higher than 1 of these 4 schools.

Outwood Academy Redcar is one of 40 schools run by Outwood Grange Academies Trust, an academy trust.

Across the trust's secondary schools, pupils averaged an Attainment 8 score of 43.4 in 2024/25.

16 parents answered Ofsted's Parent View survey about Outwood Academy Redcar (as of April 2026): 81% would recommend the school, 75% say their child is happy there and 25% of those with a view say bullying is dealt with well.

The strongest agreement was that they would recommend the school (81%); the weakest, that the school deals with bullying well (among parents with a view) (25%).

Of the 120 pupils who finished Year 11 in 2023/24, 87% stayed in education or training for at least two terms, including 59% to a further education college, 2% to an apprenticeship and 1% into work.

52.6% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, well above the average state school (25%), and 4% speak English as an additional language, against 18.8% on average, according to the 2026 school census.

The nearest railway station is Redcar Central Rail Station, about 0.8 miles away in a straight line.

13 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Waveney Road (a), 220 metres away.

In August 2026, police recorded 317 crimes within a mile of the school, most often violence and sexual offences, anti-social behaviour and criminal damage and arson. That is well above the typical figure around schools in Redcar and Cleveland (174), as is usual near a town centre.

In 2024/25, Outwood Academy Redcar issued 574 suspensions, 93.5 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and 8 permanent exclusions.

The primary schools closest to Outwood Academy Redcar are Newcomen Primary School (0.1 miles), St Benedict's Catholic Primary School (0.4 miles), Riverdale Primary School (0.4 miles) and Lakes Primary School (0.5 miles). Admission does not depend on which primary a child attends unless the school's policy names feeder schools.