Outwood Academy Acklam
Secondary · Academy sponsor led · Ages 11–16 · Middlesbrough
Last distance offered · Year 7 2026
2.290 miles
Published by Middlesbrough Council · offers on 2 March 2026
2022–2025 trend 🔒
Nearby schools' earlier years 🔒
Outwood Academy Acklam is a secondary school in Middlesbrough for ages 11–16 (academy sponsor led). Its latest Ofsted outcome is Not judged, from the inspection on 11 March 2025. Middlesbrough has published a last distance offered for this school for Year 7 2022 to 2026 entry.
Outwood Academy Acklam catchment area: last distance offered
Parents often call this the catchment area: it's how far from the school the last child offered a place lived. It changes every year.
| Entry | Last distance offered |
|---|---|
| Year 7 2026 | 2.290 mi |
| Year 7 2025 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2024 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2023 | 🔒 With a pass |
| Year 7 2022 | 🔒 With a pass |
What the pass includes · How to read it: one past year, not a catchment
What the figures show
- The last child offered a Year 7 place in 2026 lived 2.290 miles away, the longest of 6 Middlesbrough secondary schools with a published last distance.
- The 2026 Year 7 last distance was further from the school than in 2025 and in 2022, and it swung sharply between some years.
- In 2024/25, 47% got grade 5 or above in GCSE English and maths (England 45%), while the Attainment 8 score was 42.9 (England 46).
- For Year 7 2026 entry, 136 first-choice applications for 230 offers; every first-choice family was offered a place; 94 offers went to families who ranked it second or lower.
Worked out by Catchmently from the published figures on this page and those for other Middlesbrough schools. Distances are as published; how they were measured differs between admission authorities.
Key facts
- Address
- Hall Drive, Acklam, Middlesbrough, TS5 7JY
- Type
- Academy sponsor led
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11–16
- Admissions policy
- Non-selective
- Council
- Middlesbrough
- Pupils on roll
- 1,201 January 2026 school census
- Free school meals
- 57.5% of pupils eligible
- Pupils per teacher
- 17.5
Official record: Get Information about Schools · as at 15 September 2026
Ofsted
Not judged Inspected 11 March 2025
Strengths
- “Staff have high expectations of what pupils can achieve and how they should conduct themselves.”
- “Most pupils meet these expectations.”
- “Behaviour and attendance at the school have improved of late.”
To improve
- “However, a proportion of pupils still do not achieve as well as their peers nationally in external tests and assessments.”
- “However, a small minority of pupils still use language that can upset others.”
- “However, the impact of this support is not fully realised in the school’s published outcomes.”
Safeguarding: Effective
Quoted from the Ofsted report published 8 May 2025 (read the report). Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Exam results
| Measure | School | England |
|---|---|---|
| GCSE English and maths, grade 5 or above (2024/25) | 47% | 45% |
| Attainment 8 score (2024/25) | 42.9 | 46 |
Department for Education school performance data. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Applications and offers
- 2026 Year 7 entry: 136 first-preference applications, 230 offers in total, 136 offers to first-preference applicants.
Department for Education, school-level applications and offers, figures on national offer day. Earlier years are in the pass.
Nearby secondary schools
Straight-line distance, in Middlesbrough.
- Trinity Catholic College 0.6 mi Not judged Last distance published
- Acklam Grange School 0.7 mi School remains Good Last distance published
- The King's Academy 1.6 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Macmillan Academy 1.7 mi Good Last distance published
- Lift Unity City 2.1 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published
- Outwood Academy Riverside 2.3 mi Good Last distance published
- Outwood Academy Ormesby 2.9 mi No Ofsted grade Last distance published