Wingfield Academy, Rotherham

Ofsted's report card from its 9 June 2026 inspection grades Wingfield Academy on 6 areas: 5 strong standard and 1 expected standard. Report cards replaced single-word judgements in November 2025, on a five-point scale from exceptional to urgent improvement.

Achievement - Strong standard. "Pupils, including those who are disadvantaged, make excellent progress at the school from their starting points."

Attendance and behaviour - Strong standard. "Leaders have devised a robust and evidence informed attendance strategy."

Curriculum and teaching - Strong standard. "Leaders have devised an ambitious curriculum that is well planned and sequenced."

Inclusion - Strong standard. "Leaders quickly and accurately identify any pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities."

Leadership and governance - Strong standard. "Leaders, including those responsible for governance, care passionately about the pupils and the local community."

Personal development and wellbeing - Expected standard. "Leaders have devised a coherent and appropriate personal development programme."

Safeguarding standards were met.

In its own words: "Our colleges and schools will make a significant difference to the lives of young people. As a result, together we will make a positive contribution to social mobility. Child centred, progress focussed. Overcoming barriers and opening doors to a brighter future."

On phones, the school says: "As we strive to provide the most effective learning environment, we are implementing a phone-free policy based on the Yondr model."

In 2026, pupils at Wingfield Academy averaged an Attainment 8 score of 50.1, the average grade across their best eight GCSEs. The average state school scored 43.9 in Rotherham and 47 across England.

52% passed English and maths at grade 5 or above, against 41% in Rotherham and 47% in England.

That is up from 47 in 2025.

Its most recent Progress 8 score, for 2024, was 0.42: pupils made above 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 36.4, against 56.8 for other pupils at the school - a gap of 20.4 points.

Pupils sat GCSEs in 25 subjects; after English and maths, the most popular were Combined Science, Art and Design and Geography.

For September 2026 entry, 208 families put Wingfield Academy as their first choice and 289 named it as one of their preferences, for 195 places offered. That is 1.1 first choices for every place. 14 families who put it first were not offered a place there.

The nearest other state secondary schools to Wingfield Academy are Winterhill School (1.2 miles, Good, Attainment 8 41.8); Rawmarsh Community School (1.8 miles, Good, Attainment 8 40.1); Clifton Community School (2.1 miles, Good, Attainment 8 37); and Oakwood High School (2.7 miles, Good, Attainment 8 47).

Wingfield Academy's 2026 results were higher than all 4 of them.

Wingfield Academy is one of 9 schools run by New Collaborative Learning Trust, an academy trust.

Of the 170 pupils who finished Year 11 in 2023/24, 76% stayed in education or training for at least two terms, including 44% to a further education college, 8% to an apprenticeship and 4% into work.

36.2% of pupils are eligible for free school meals, well above the average state school (25%), and 6.7% speak English as an additional language, against 18.8% on average, according to the 2026 school census.

In 2026, 224 pupils (22.6%) received SEN support and 24 (2.4%) had an education, health and care plan, against 16.2% and 4.6% at the average state school. The most common need among them is autism.

The nearest tram or metro stop is Rotherham Platform Both Directions, about 1.5 miles away in a straight line.

5 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Wingfield Road/Robinets Road (adjacent), 200 metres away.

Measured by the 2025 English Indices of Deprivation, the neighbourhood Wingfield Academy stands in is among the 10% most deprived neighbourhoods in England. This describes where the school is, not where its pupils live.

In August 2026, police recorded 233 crimes within a mile of the school, most often violence and sexual offences, shoplifting and anti-social behaviour. That is well above the typical figure around schools in Rotherham (146), as is usual near a town centre.

In 2024/25, Wingfield Academy issued 511 suspensions, 50.5 for every 100 pupils (the average state school: 6.3), and 2 permanent exclusions.

The primary schools closest to Wingfield Academy are Rockingham Junior and Infant School (0.3 miles), Roughwood Primary School (0.5 miles), Greasbrough Primary School (0.5 miles) and Redscope Primary School (0.7 miles). Admission does not depend on which primary a child attends unless the school's policy names feeder schools.