URN 136613 · Wakefield
Airedale Academy
Secondary · Academy converter · Castleford · WF10 3JU
About the school
- Pupils
- 1,008
- Capacity
- 1,250
- Free school meals
- 51.9%
- Ages
- 11–18
- Pupils taught
- Mixed
- Religious character
- None
- Admissions
- Non-selective
- Trust
- CASTLEFORD ACADEMY TRUST
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber
- Website
- www.airedaleacademy.com
Source: DfE Get Information about Schools, register file of 08 Nov 2026; pupil numbers from the school census of 15 Jan 2026.
Latest Ofsted inspection
Graded inspection (pre-report-card) started 30 Jan 2024, published 19 Mar 2024.
Requires improvement
- Overall effectiveness
- Requires improvement
- Quality of education
- Requires improvement
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Requires improvement
- Personal development
- Requires improvement
- Leadership and management
- Requires improvement
- Safeguarding is effective?
- Yes
- Early years provision
- 9
- Sixth form provision
- Requires improvement
Source: Ofsted management information, as at 30 Sept 2026. Outcomes are Ofsted's own words.
GCSE results (key stage 4)
- Attainment 8
- 39.4
- Progress 8
- Not published
- Grade 5+ English & maths
- 35.3%
- Grade 4+ English & maths
- 59.7%
- Pupils at end of KS4
- 201
Source: DfE Key stage 4 performance — performance tables schools data, academic year 2025/26. "Not published" means the DfE suppressed or did not calculate the figure. Progress 8 was not published for 2024/25 and 2025/26 because there were no KS2 results for those pupils. Primary (KS2) results: DfE school performance page.