School profile
Oakfield Park School
Barnsley Road, Ackworth, Pontefract, West Yorkshire, WF7 7DT
Overview
Oakfield Park School is a special / send school (community special school) in Pontefract, Yorkshire and the Humber, for pupils aged 11–19. This summary is generated only from official structured fields.
School details
- Official establishment type
- Community special school
- Establishment group
- Special schools
- Age range
- Ages 11–19
- Gender of entry
- Mixed
- Boarding
- No boarders
- Sixth form
- Yes
- School capacity
- 162
- Pupils on roll
- 176
- URN
- 133719
Admissions
- Local authority
- Wakefield
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Official inspection data
Ofsted inspections
Inspection information published by Ofsted, shown in Ofsted's own words.
Ofsted inspection
Inspected 8 October 2019 · Published 20 November 2019
Original education inspection framework (September 2019 to August 2024)
Overall effectiveness
Outstanding
This is a historical Ofsted judgement given under the previous inspection framework. It is not a School Nest rating.
- Quality of education
- Outstanding
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Outstanding
- Personal development
- Outstanding
- Effectiveness of leadership and management
- Outstanding
- Safeguarding was effective
- Yes
- Sixth form provision (where applicable)
- Outstanding
Other recent inspection activity
These visits do not carry a graded judgement and do not replace the inspection above.
Ungraded inspection
Inspected 5 March 2025 · Published 28 April 2025
Outcome: Standards maintained
Ofsted changed how it inspects and reports on schools in November 2025. Judgements from the previous and current frameworks use different systems and should not be directly compared.
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Source: Ofsted · Inspections and outcomes. Official Ofsted page for this school
SEND and additional needs
Types of special educational need recorded in the official dataset. These describe recorded provision, not a judgement of quality.
- ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder
- SLD - Severe Learning Difficulty
- PMLD - Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulty
Location
- Address
- Barnsley Road, Ackworth, Pontefract, West Yorkshire, WF7 7DT
- Local authority
- Wakefield
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